Uruguay · Markets
Key Facts
—The milestone. Electric cars outsold gasoline models in Uruguay for the first time, with about nine thousand five hundred sold against eight thousand six hundred through May.
—The share. Fully electric cars reached forty-three percent of new sales in the first five months, up from twenty-three percent a year earlier.
—The trigger. Premium gasoline costs about two dollars forty a litre, the priciest in Latin America, after a roughly twenty-one percent rise since April.
