Global sales of passenger car electric vehicles (EVs) jumped by 63% last year to top 2 million units for the first time, helped by surging sales of plug-in EVs in the US, according to data provided by EV-Volumes. A total of 2.08 million plug-in EVs were delivered to customers in 2018, or 2.2% of total car sales, EV-volumes data shows. Of the total, 1.45 million were pure electric EVs and the rest were plug-in hybrid models, it said. While China continued to dominate the outright number of EV sales last year, in the US Tesla’s new Model-3 became the world’s best-selling EV of all time, boosting total US EV sales by 81% year-on-year, the data shows. China remains the engine of growth for passenger EVs, and thus the location of most displaced oil demand. EV sales in China rose 76% on the year in 2018, to make up just […]