In 2021, global electric vehicle sales will reach 4.6 million units, more than doubling from 2020. With sales of more than 4.5 million units, electric vehicles will also surpass hybrid vehicles for the first time in 2021, becoming a major segment in the entire new energy vehicle market.
Generally speaking, new energy vehicles refer to the use of unconventional vehicle fuels as power sources, generally including pure electric vehicles, hybrid vehicles, fuel cell electric vehicles, hydrogen engine vehicles and other models. With the changes in the development trend of the automobile industry, the main force of the new energy vehicle market is shifting from hybrid electric vehicles to pure electric vehicles.
From the perspective of the entire automotive industry, electrification is the main development direction in the future. In 2021, electric vehicle sales will reach 4.6 million units, which means that the electric vehicle market is expanding again.
Specifically, among the 4.6 million electric vehicle sales, China's new electric vehicle sales in 2021 will increase to 2.6 times that of 2020, reaching 2.91 million; Germany's pure electric vehicle sales in 2021 will be about 340,000, increasing to 2020 In 2021, the sales of pure electric vehicles in the United States will also increase to 1.9 times that of the previous year, reaching about 490,000 vehicles; the sales of pure electric vehicles in Japan will only be about 20,000 vehicles in 2021.
Electric vehicle sales figures for 2021 by country show that China is the key to driving the market. China is currently the world's largest electric vehicle market, and in China's auto market, the development of new energy vehicles has shifted from policy-driven to market-driven development, showing a good development situation of both market size and development quality. In this situation, electric vehicles have shown a rapid growth trend.
In addition to the Chinese market's emphasis on electric vehicles, countries around the world are gradually accelerating the development and layout of electric vehicles. Especially in European countries, they vigorously promote the replacement of electric vehicles, and at the same time accelerate the rapid layout of charging infrastructure. Therefore, in 2021, the sales of pure electric vehicles in Germany will be as much as four times that of hybrid vehicles. At the same time, Norway will reach 65% in 2021.
On the other hand, based on the development and popularization of electric vehicles in various countries around the world, Japanese car companies such as Honda and Toyota have also begun to invest in the electric market. Honda expects to launch 30 pure electric vehicles around the world by 2030, with an annual production of 200 10,000 vehicles; Toyota will invest about 4 trillion yen in the development of pure electric vehicles by 2030, and set sales at 3.5 million vehicles per year. As more car companies deploy in the electric market, electric vehicle sales will continue to grow.
From the perspective of the global market, the global sales of major new energy passenger vehicles will reach 6.23 million units in 2021, a year-on-year increase of 118.6%. Among them, the sales of electric vehicles were 4.6 million, a year-on-year increase of 120%; the sales of hybrid vehicles were about 3.1 million, an increase of only 33%. In contrast, the growth rate of hybrid vehicles is much lower than that of new energy vehicles and pure electric vehicles.
In the development process of new energy vehicles, hybrid power can be regarded as the first to occupy the dominant market position. Since 2011, the overall sales volume of hybrid vehicles has exceeded 500,000 units. In the course of nearly 10 years of development, hybrid models have seen a relatively stable growth trend, with sales reaching 3.1 million units by 2022.
Looking back at the rapid development of the new energy vehicle market in the past few years, countries around the world have successively announced the ban on the sale of fuel vehicles since 2017, which directly provides a huge development space for new energy vehicles. In the battery era, pure electric and plug-in hybrids have become the two main forces in the new energy market. However, with the emphasis on electric vehicles in various policies, the growth rate of pure electric vehicle sales has begun to exceed that of hybrid models.
At present, electric vehicles have become the main goal of the development of the automobile industry in various countries, and have become an indispensable and important part of the strategic transformation process of every car company. It can be said that the current era of new energy vehicles is oriented by electric vehicles.
With the development of new energy vehicles in recent years, electric vehicles have become the protagonist of market development. At the same time, the development of hydrogen fuel vehicles and methanol vehicles is also gradually increasing, especially in the Chinese market. With the support of relevant policies, hydrogen fuel cells have also been deployed in car companies. The essence of a hydrogen fuel cell vehicle is an electric vehicle. Its power source is an electric motor. The main structure is composed of an electric motor, a power battery, a fuel cell and a hydrogen tank. It avoids the battery life and charging of pure electric vehicles to a certain extent. problems, but storage problems have prevented it from achieving rapid development for the time being.
In this regard, many car companies are also conducting research and development related to hydrogen energy, which means that for a long time in the future, hydrogen fuel vehicles will also become one of the mainstream new energy models. In addition, methanol can be used as a fuel for automobiles and other fields. The addition of these energy fuels will make the development of the new energy vehicle market more diversified.
