Sales of electric cars increased sharply on the global market

Worldwide sales of electric cars continue to grow. In 2015, according to an analytical agency "AUTOSTAT", approximately 400 thousands of such machines will be sold. Compared to 2014, the year when sales accounted for 318 of thousands of electric vehicles, the market will grow by 30%.

The largest electric vehicle market in the world is China. For the first nine months of this year, almost 100 thousands of electric vehicles have already been sold in this country. The best-selling model is BYD Qin (26 thousand).

In second place is the United States, where in the first three quarters thousands of electric cars were sold to the 82. Leads the Tesla Model S home market (15 500 thousand).

In the European market since the beginning of the year, 121 sold one thousand electric vehicles. The best-selling model was the Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV (19,6 thousand) crossover. This is followed by Nissan Leaf (12,8 thousand) and Renault Zoe (11,7 thousand) and Tesla Model S (10,6 thousand).

In Tesla electric cars for the first time autopilot appeared, To get started, it is enough to install an update of the operating system. The company itself immediately stated that this is not a full-fledged autopilot and the system does not become completely autonomous.