Plug-in electric vehicles in the Netherlands as the country's all-time top selling all-electric car, and combined sales of Tesla Motors models represented almost half of the 13,105 all-electric cars registered in the country. , plug-in hybrids continued their dominance of the Dutch plug-in market, with 87% (98,903) of the country's stock of 113,636 passenger plug-in electric cars and vans registered at the end of December 2016. With a total of 25,134 Mitsubishi Outlander P-HEVs registered in the country by the end of December 2017, the plug-in hybrid continues as the all-time top selling plug-in electric vehicle in the Netherlands. The Tesla Model S also continues the
Electric car pure electric cars (65%). The Nissan Leaf is the best-selling highway-capable electric car ever with 370,000 units sold globally, followed by the Tesla Model S with 253,000 units sold worldwide, both through October 2018. Electric cars are a variety of electric vehicle (EV). The term "electric vehicle" refers to any vehicle that uses electric motors for propulsion, while "electric car" generally refers to highway-capable automobiles powered by electricity. Low-speed electric vehicles, classified as neighborhood electric vehicles (NEVs) in the United States, and as electric motorised quadricycles in Europe, are plug-in electric-powered microcars or city cars with limitations in terms of