OREANDA-NEWS. During the first half of 2015 in North America, Europe and China it was sold 176.2 thousand electric, cars, writes SleanTechnica.com. It is almost five times more than the year before.

The leader was Europe, where it was sold 78.4 thousand units. North America is in the second place (USA and Canada) with 53.4 thousand units. On the third place – there is China with 44.4 thousand units.

If we talk about the dynamics of sales, North American market turned out to be the fastest-growing - for the year it grew 5.4 times to 9.7 thousand units. Europe is in the second place - the volume grew 4.9 times from 16 thousand units in the I half of the last year. In China, the market increased 4.4 times to 10 thousand units.