13 Auto Manufacturers Noticed Rising EV Gross sales in California in 1st Half of 2025

Final Up to date on: ninth August 2025, 04:33 am

The California EV market is the most important within the US by far. The truth is, standing alone, it’s one of many greatest EV markets on the earth. I’ve lined the prime promoting EV fashions within the state this 12 months, the EV fashions doing nicely of their automobile lessons, and the prime promoting auto manufacturers for EV gross sales within the 2nd quarter of 2025. To wrap up this sequence, let’s have a look at the highest promoting auto manufacturers for EV gross sales within the first half of the 12 months general.

There’s a little bit of overlap with that final article, however there are additionally variations. If it was all mainly the identical story, I’d have simply mixed the tales.

Total, throughout the primary half of the 12 months, Tesla is down one place, from second place in 2024 to 3rd place in 2025. The all-electric model is kind of far off of #2 Honda, nevertheless it additionally nonetheless has an honest lead over #4 Ford. Can Tesla maintain onto third place by means of the top of the 12 months, and even climb again into 2nd? Or will it slip additional as gross sales proceed to drop within the Golden State? We’ll by no means know. Oh, wait, sure — we’ll know in 6 months. Drop your prediction down within the feedback!

Trying simply at ZEV gross sales, nicely, regardless of how a lot Tesla drops, it’s acquired such a large lead over the remainder of the pack that it’s onerous to even discover a drop. There’s no probability some other automaker is getting near the (initially) California model this 12 months or subsequent. Let’s simply see if some other model can get to 10,000+ ZEV gross sales 1 / 4 within the coming quarters/years.

Excluding Tesla from the chart in order that it’s simpler to match the others, we see a decent race for silver and bronze on the prime, with BMW at present taking the silver and Hyundai at present taking the bronze, however Chevrolet proper behind them. That’s totally different from the final quarterly report, the place Hyundai is in 2nd, BMW is in third, and Chevrolet is in 4th — nevertheless it’s even tighter. Ford is making an attempt to climb as much as the extent of these three, however no different model has an opportunity of competing for the rostrum.

how issues have modified from H1 2024 to H1 2025, we see the huge drop-off from Tesla, with the corporate shedding virtually 20,000 gross sales (or 20% of gross sales) 12 months over 12 months. The model could also be years value of gross sales forward of the competitors, however that stings.

Excluding Tesla in order that we will see the remainder of the chart higher, we now have a ton of variation. 13 manufacturers scored gross sales rises, some massive ones. Nevertheless, one other 12 had gross sales losses, some massive ones. (Notice: I excluded these backside three manufacturers from these tallies since their numbers are within the single digits.)

Chevrolet, Honda, and Acura had big rises due to new, in style fashions. Nissan, Porsche, GMC, BMW, and Volvo additionally had massive gross sales will increase.

However, Kia misplaced a ton of gross sales, and Mercedes, Rivian, Audi, Volkswagen, Lexus, and Hyundai had notable and disappointing gross sales losses.

Clearly, there are altering preferences for EVs within the Golden State. It will be good if all EV mannequin gross sales had been rising, some simply greater than others. However the actuality is that some fashions and types are struggling whereas others are rising their buyer bases considerably. Survival of the fittest. Who do you suppose may have a robust second half of the 12 months?

For further enjoyable, view interactive variations of three of the above charts right here: