However, the market is expanding over 60 percent each year, even though it is very low.
In the world, 2.1 million electric cars have been sold last year, and this year it is expected to reach 2.7 million, says CAM German automotive research institute.
The share of electric cars compared to the total number of cars sold is expected to grow to about 3.1 percent this year from 2.4 percent last year.
China's largest market for electric cars last year was China, selling 1.05 million units, 82 percent more than two years earlier. In China, the market share of electric cars rose to 4.5 percent from 2.7 percent in 2017. The second largest market for electric cars was the United States, where sales increased by 86 percent to 360,000.
In Europe, Norway is the largest market for electric cars, with last year's sales expanding by 18 percent to 73,000. In Germany, the number of electric cars sold last year rose 24 percent to 68,000, and their market share rose from 1.6 percent to 2 percent.
(Source: hvg.hu / photo: pixabay.com)