... increased by a good 100 percent annually. At the beginning of 2012, there were just under 100,000 electric cars on the roads worldwide. One year later, the total number had risen to 200,000. At the beginning of this year, there were already 405,000. If the growth rates of the last three years remain at the same level, there will be more than one million electric vehicles on the road worldwide by the beginning of 2016, predicts the ZSW. The USA is far ahead with 174,000 electric cars. This is followed by Japan (68,000) and China (45,000). Only 17,500 electric vehicles were registered in Germany. The run on electric vehicles in the lead markets ...