Electric cars got crushed in 2020, but next year could be their best

Electric cars got crushed in 2020, but next year could be their best

Electric vehicles have long defied the slumping global auto market. As vehicle sales cooled over in recent years, EVs have resisted the pull of gravity, selling roughly a million new units every six months since 2018. In Asia and the US, a long-term trend is reversing: Electric vehicles are now underperforming their conventional counterparts.