Monthly domestic vehicle sales by powertrain for South Korea from the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Resources' «자동차산업 동향» (automotive industry trends) press release — domestic makers plus imports, battery-electric, plug-in, hybrid and hydrogen cars broken out.
Go and check the numbers yourself:
MOTIR (산업통상부) — «자동차산업 동향» monthly press release ↗
Each new or changed month re-renders the country. Shares are read from the CSV as column ÷ TOTAL and grouped into three curves. A generalized Weibull S-curve is fitted to the BEV and the ICE share, and the charts, the fitted parameters, the twelve-month totals and the uncertainty bands are rewritten.
| Acquisition | PDF — parsed from a published PDF |
|---|---|
| Vehicle scope | Domestic sales (내수 판매), not registrations — all vehicle types, domestic makers plus imports reported by KAIDA. Petrol and diesel are not split; combustion is one ICE figure = total − eco-friendly cars. |
| HEV (full hybrids) | Hybrids are their own column; imported hybrids include mild hybrids (KAIDA counts them together), domestic makers' do not. Plug-in hybrids and hydrogen fuel-cell cars are separate (FCEV for future new rows; historical unknown split stays in OTHERS). |
| Backfill | 2017-01 → 2024-12 entered by hand from these releases (the older PDFs hold the table as a graphic, so they are not re-parsed); 2025-01 → automated and cross-checked |
| Auth | none |
Each variant is its own series with its own CSV. Not every variant is charted in the gallery — the CSV is the authoritative record either way.
| Variant | What it counts | Held | Raw data |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole | Domestic sales of new vehicles of all types (passenger cars and commercial vehicles), domestic makers plus KAIDA-member imports. | 2017-01 – 2026-09 117 rows | data/South Korea.csv |
Every bar is the span actually present in our stored CSV — breaks in a bar are real gaps in the series, not rendering. Cadence is shown on the right.
Whole 2017-01–2026-09 (117 rows).
A blank column almost never means "no such cars" — it means this source does not split them out, and those vehicles are counted inside another column. Check the caveats for where they land.
| BEV | PHEV | HEV | ICE | OTHERS | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Whole | reported | reported | reported | reported | reported |
reported column exists but is zero in every row not reported by this source. Hover a cell for the row count.