The share of gasoline cars in global vehicle sales fell below 50% for the first time ever.
In the first half of this year, sales of gas-powered vehicles, excluding hybrids, slumped by 10% from a year earlier, to 20.25 million cars, and their share of total global automotive sales fell by 3% to 49%.
As many as 90 countries saw annual growth in EV sales in the first half of the year.