California EV Sales Hit Record in Q3 of This Year

America’s largest electric vehicle market registered record EV sales in the third quarter of 2025. California drivers bought a record 124,755 electric cars between July and September 2025, raising quarterly EV sales to 29.1% of total vehicle sales. This is the highest share of EV sales California has ever recorded in a single quarter and underscores the Golden State’s enduring demand for zero emission vehicles. 

The record sales numbers come during a challenging time for the country’s fledgling new energy vehicle segment. The Trump administration has stripped many of the federal incentives and subsidies that enabled EV purchases in the US and halted the nationwide public charging network construction project, making electric vehicle ownership more costly and failing to address one of the largest barriers to EV sales: range anxiety. 

But despite these mounting challenges, Californians are purchasing electric vehicles in droves and even breaking state sales records. 

California boasts the largest share of electric vehicles in the country and also serves as one of the most dominant EV markets in not just America but the entire world. Additionally, it features an extensive network of public EV charging stations, particularly in the urban areas, and is without a doubt one of the best places to own a zero emission vehicle (ZEV) in the U.S. Thanks to efforts by the California Energy Commission (CEC) and its industry and agency partners, California Energy Commissioner Nancy Skinner says, almost every California resident now lives within 10 minutes from a fast electric vehicle charger. 

EV ownership trends in the state have also diversified in recent years, reducing the monopoly of certain pure electric vehicles to other models and form factors that take advantage of EV technology and provide the environmental and saving benefits associated with electric cars. The number of zero emission vehicle models available in the Golden State increased from 105 models in the first quarter of 2025 to 146 models in Q3, representing a nearly 40% surge in available ZEV models. 

108,685 of the 124,755 units purchased in Q3 2025 were pure electric cars, with the rest being plug-in hybrids. Speaking of the nearly 30% jump in ZEV sales between Q2 and Q3 2025, California Governor Gavin Newsom said the surge in zero emission vehicles is ‘unprecedented’ and brought California close to making a third of all its new vehicle sales electric. 

He noted that even though President Donald Trump is allowing Chinese industry to surpass the U.S. in an increasingly critical industry by attacking American clean energy and technology, California, currently the world’s fourth largest economy, will continue charting a path to a cleaner, sustainable future. 

The figures coming from California should provide needed encouragement to American EV industry players like Massimo Group (NASDAQ: MAMO) that the local market could remain on a growth trajectory despite the regulatory and policy headwinds introduced by the current federal administration. 

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