12:29 - 12.11.2026

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November 12, Fineko/abcnews. According to London-based data provider Benchmark Mineral Intelligence, global electric vehicle (EV) sales rose 8% year-on-year in October to 2.09 million units, bringing total sales for the January–October period up 5% to 17.5 million vehicles.

Over the first ten months, EV sales in the European Union surged 31% to 4.5 million (510,000 in October), while North America recorded its first annual monthly gain of the year in October, rising 24% to 130,000 units (1.3 million for January–October, down 21%). In China, weak domestic demand pulled 10-month sales down 11% to 9.1 million (1.14 million in October), though EV exports hit a monthly record of nearly 600,000 units. Meanwhile, sales across the rest of the world jumped 93% in the 10-month period to 2.6 million.