US Plugin Automobile Gross sales Dropped 27% 12 months Over 12 months In October

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On the subject of the US electrical automobile marketI totally cowl and analyze the gross sales of absolutely electrical automobiles (aka BEVs). Nevertheless, I don’t sometimes contact plugin hybrids. Frankly, automakers don’t get away plugin hybrid knowledge from standard gas-powered automobile knowledge when plugin hybrids share a mannequin identify — they usually virtually at all times share a mannequin identify. Nonetheless, it’s attention-grabbing to get a peek into the plugin hybrid (PHEV) market after we can, and Argonne Nationwide Laboratory does make that potential.

I used to be initially going to put in writing concerning the September knowledge the lab launched. “A complete of 169,357 plug-in automobiles (147,801 BEVs and 21,556 PHEVs) had been offered throughout September 2025 in america, up 34.7% from the gross sales in September 2024. PEVs captured 13.55% of complete LDV gross sales this month,” Argonne Nationwide Laboratory wrote. So, 11.8% of car gross sales had been BEVs whereas one other 1.7% had been PHEVs, in line with this knowledge. That’s good progress although you must take note of the truth that Q3, particularly September, offered a giant short-term increase in gross sales as a result of US EV tax credit score being ended by Republicans.

Nevertheless, once I returned to the ANL webpage on this matter at present to complete this text, I found that the information had already been up to date with October numbers. Listed here are a few of the highlights (and lowlights):

“A complete of 91,067 plug-in automobiles (74,897 BEVs and 16,170 PHEVs) had been offered throughout October 2025 in america, down 26.9% from the gross sales in October 2024. PEVs captured 7.16% of complete LDV gross sales this month.

• • Over 1.5M plug-in electrical automobiles (PEVs) had been offered in 2024, a rise of over 7% from 2023 gross sales. BEVs account for 80% of the PEV gross sales.
  • PEVs reached 13.6% of month-to-month gross sales in September 2025. PEVs had been 9.9% of annual passenger automobile gross sales in 2024, up from 9.4% within the annual gross sales of 2023.
  • Cumulatively, over 7.6 million plug-in electrical automobiles have been offered in america (as of the tip of October 2025).”

So, there it’s. Been wanting an replace that features plugin hybrids? Now we’ve obtained one, or two. We even have this graph:

And this one:

There’s additionally a gigantic chart of the mannequin breakdown over time right here.

Relating to the drop in EV gross sales in October, I’ve to say, it’s not as dangerous as many would have anticipated. Most likely being the worst gross sales month for EVs that we’ll see, round 6% of US automobile gross sales had been nonetheless full electrics, and seven.2% had been plugin automobiles total. Onward and upward from there!

*I consider a reader offered us with the ANL hyperlink in a latest remark, but when so, I misplaced observe of who that was. Apologies.