Based on the amount of news coverage it receives and the fervor of its fans, it’s not surprising that Tesla tops the charts in terms of global Google searches for electric vehicles. Its four models are also the four most searched electric vehicles on Earth.
There are some interesting things happening below them, though, according to data compiled by partcatalog.com. The Tesla Model 3 is the most-Googled electric vehicle on Earth, appearing in searches 2,240,000 times per month, followed by the Model S, Model Y and Model X.
The most-searched non-Tesla model is the Audi e-tron, which was Googled more than a million times per month in 2021, as was the Porsche Taycan, and they were followed by the Volkswagen ID.4 (823,000), which must please the Volkswagen Group.
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Despite that, none of VW’s brands ranked in the 10 most-searched. The top three honors for that category went to Tesla, in first with 11,100,000 monthly searches; Rivian, with one million; and NIO, also with one million.
In the U.S., meanwhile, the cars with the fastest-growing interest are the Volvo XC40 Recharge, which received 221,900 percent more searches in 2021 than it did in 2020; the Hyundai Ioniq 5, which got 12,442 percent more; and the Volkswagen ID.4, whose searches increased by 5,483 percent.
Using data from the International Energy Agency, meanwhile, partcatalog.com looked at the nations that purchased the most electric vehicles between 2010 and 2020. Naturally, China was on top, with more than four million EVs selling in the country during the teens. The UK came next, followed by Germany. Most surprising, though, was how close Norway and the U.S. were.
Although we are, of course, aware of Norway’s prodigious appetite for EVs, the country has a population of just 5.3 million people and yet they bought 435,352 of them as compared to the U.S., whose nearly 330 million citizens bought just 438,817 EVs over the course of the same decade.
