- General Motors posted strong electric vehicle sales on Tuesday for the second quarter of 2025.
- GM says it sold 46,280 EVs in the U.S. across its Chevrolet, Cadillac and GMC brands.
- Its EV sales shot up over 100% year-on-year, while both Tesla and the U.S. EV market as a whole shrank.
General Motors is on a tear. Its electric vehicle sales more than doubled in the second quarter, hitting 46,280 units.
The carmaker sold some 114,000 EVs in the U.S. last year, crossing the 100,000-unit mark for the first time. That momentum carried on in the first several months of 2025, on the back of new models like the Cadillac Escalade IQ and Optiq.
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The Chevrolet Equinox EV, launched last year with a $34,995 starting price and over 300 miles of range, is the real hero of GM’s lineup. In the first half of 2025, GM says it sold more than 27,000 of them. The company says it’s on track to become one of the top three most popular electric cars in the U.S. so far this year.
Meanwhile Tesla, the U.S. EV sales leader, is struggling. Cox Automotive estimates that its U.S. sales dropped by 20% in Q2 as it grapples with an aging lineup, no truly affordable model and the controversial politics of its CEO, Elon Musk.
Of course, keep in mind that GM’s EV sales are growing off of a much smaller base. (Even in a down year, Tesla sold some 1.8 million electric cars globally in 2024.) Plus, the company has launched several new EVs in the last year. If sales weren’t shooting up like they are now, that would be a problem.
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