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US Electric Vehicle Sales Reach Breakthrough Pace

It took a decade to sell the first million EVs but just a year to reach the third million.

Here come the chargers.

Photographer: Eric Thayer/Bloomberg
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Electric cars are smashing all kinds of records in the US.

Their share of new cars exceeded 7% for the first half of the year, speeding past a critical tipping point for mass adoption. In the last few months, all-time sales topped 3 million.