S&P Global Mobility's return-to-market data shows electric vehicle owners still most often repurchase EVs, but in the second half of 2025 that repeat-buy share dropped — about 10% of returning EV owners chose hybrids while a bigger and growing chunk shifted into gas-powered vehicles.
S&P Global Mobility Data
S&P Global Mobility tracks what consumers buy when they return to market, giving manufacturers a transaction-level read on repurchase flows that planners use to size production and model lineups for EV, hybrid, and gas segments.
Second Half of 2025 Trends
Overall loyalty has been trending slightly downward over the last year, and that decline coincided with the second half of 2025 drop in EV-to-EV repurchases which reduces the predictable pool of repeat EV buyers that automakers had been counting on.
About 10% Chose Hybrids
About 10% of returning EV owners went to hybrids, while a bigger and growing chunk ended up in gas-powered vehicles, a flow that reallocates demand away from hybrids and toward conventional combustion models in segments where EV or hybrid options are limited.
Electric car owners remain the single group most likely to buy another EV when they re-enter the market, which confirms that EV-to-EV loyalty still leads other powertrain flows despite the recent drop in repeat purchases.
Hybrid owners are a little more likely to buy an EV next than an EV owner is to buy a hybrid, and fewer than 45% of hybrid owners get a traditional gas-powered vehicle next, a pattern that creates asymmetric movement between hybrids and EVs rather than a simple three-way parity.
The one key unanswered question in the data is the precise share of returning EV owners who chose gas-powered vehicles in the second half of 2025, a figure the dataset describes only as a "bigger and growing chunk" and that manufacturers need to plan capacity, incentives, and distribution across powertrains.
