Where electric cars are the most popular in Russia: TOP-10 of regions

Experts of the analytical agency "AUTOSTAT" calculated that for 11 months of 2019, citizens of the Russian Federation purchased 325 new electric vehicles. This is 2.7 times higher than in the same period of 2018 (122 units).

As it turned out, a third of all purchased electric cars belonged to Moscow - during the reporting period, residents of the Russian capital became the owners of 107 such vehicles. In the neighboring suburbs from January to November, 24 electric vehicles were sold. Primorsky Krai (22 units), which also entered the top-3 in terms of the market volume of new electric cars, is slightly behind. St. Petersburg is outside; its residents have bought 17 units of this type of transport. Krasnodar Territory finished the top - 5 with the result of 15 purchased electric vehicles.

In addition to them, the TOP-10 of regional ranking included: Irkutsk (11 units) and Sverdlovsk (10 units) regions, as well as Khabarovsk, Perm and Krasnoyarsk Territories (9 units in each). According to experts of the analytical agency AUTOSTAT, 97% of the market of new electric cars in our country belonged to the products of only three brands - Jaguar (125 units), Nissan (121 units) and Tesla (69 units).