Plug-in electric vehicles in Japan
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The fleet of light-duty plug-in electric vehicles in Japan totaled just over 300,000 highway legal plug-in electric vehicles in circulation at the end of 2020, consisting of 156,381 all-electric passenger cars, 136,700 plug-in hybrids, and 9,904 light-commercial vehicles.[2]
The rate of growth of the Japanese plug-in segment slowed from 2013, with annual sales falling behind Europe, the U.S. and China since then.[3][4][5] The segment market share fell from 0.68% in 2014 to 0.59% in 2016.[6] Then the market share increased to 1.2% in 2017, and fell to 1.1% in 2018.[3] Norway surpassed Japan as the country with the third largest plug-in car stock in use in 2019.[3] The market share fell further to 0.7% in 2019 and 0.6% in 2020.[2] The decline in plug-in car sales reflects the Japanese government and the major domestic carmakers decision to adopt and promote hydrogen fuel cell vehicles instead of plug-in electric vehicles, although the first commercially produced hydrogen fuel cell automobiles began in 2015.[7][8]
As of April 2018[update], the Nissan Leaf all-electric car ranked as the all-time top selling plug-in electric vehicle in the country, with over 100,000 units sold since December 2010.[1] Ranking second is the Mitsubishi Outlander P-HEV with 34,830 units delivered through August 2016,[9] followed by the Toyota Prius PHV with 22,100 units sold through April 2016.[10]
As of December 2012[update], Japan was the country with the highest ratio of quick charging points to electric vehicles (EVSE/EV), with a ratio of 0.030 as of December 2012[update]. The country's charging infrastructure included 1,381 public quick-charge stations and around 300 non-domestic slow charger points.[11] The Japanese government had set up a target to deploy 2 million slow chargers and 5,000 fast charging points by 2020.[11]