EV and battery thread, page-480

"12 March: The one-pager summary for Early Volumes in March and the 2022 calendar year forecast is uploaded to the Data Center. In the top-15 EV markets EV sales increased by +59 % over March 2021, for an EV share of 16,3 % in the total light vehicle markets of these countries. Our global sales forecast for 2022 stands at 11 million BEV and PHEV, an increase of 63 % over 2021. Europe loses pace amid component shortages, while China NEV sales continue to expand rapidly with +114 % in March. Auto markets remain depressed, except in China. Europe-10 sales for March were 39 % lower than the 2015-2019 average and 20 % lower for the global top-15 EV markets by this measure. The full impact of the war in Ukraine and the Shanghai lock-down is yet to come."

This would mean roughly 63 % growth YoY. I think the number would be reasonable if enough lithium is available for the car industry. The previous forecast from ev-volumes.com was 10.5 million units.

EV-Volumes - The Electric Vehicle World Sales Database