Global sales of electric cars fell in the first quarter of 2026, largely reflecting lower sales in the United States and China, according to the agency’s report ‘Electric Car Markets in a Time of Uncertainty’. In sizable car markets such as Brazil, India, Australia, and Vietnam, electric car sales roughly doubled between March and June compared with the same period in 2025, according to the IEA’s analysis in the report. As many as 90 countries saw annual growth in EV sales in the first half of the year. As a result of the surge in the second-quarter sales, electric car sales in the first half of 2026 were only slightly lower than in the first half of last year, as the jump in second quarter sales almost entirely offset the first-quarter decline. The momentum in EV sales due to the oil price shock is set to boost electric car sales to a 29% share of total car sales worldwide in 2026, one percentage point higher than the 28% IEA expected in the Global EV Outlook 2026 in May.