Hyundai Motor Company and its affiliate Kia Motors ranked fifth in the global electric vehicle market for the first half of this year.... up four spots from the end of last year.
Hyundai's electric vehicle sales went up 1-hundred-40 percent on-year to over... 44-thousand-8-hundred units for the first half of this year.
Hyundai attributed the increase in sales to growing demand in Europe.... due to tighter emissions regulations and the growing popularity of its electric versions of SUVs including the Hyundai Kona.
The Korean carmaker's share of the global electric car market between January and June also went up over two percentage points on-year to... six-point-five percent.
Tesla, B-Y-D, Renault-Nissan and S-A-I-C were the four firms with the largest market share.