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Electric Vehicles in the News 2019–2026: article-level dataset and coverage tables
A dataset of electric-vehicle news from a global news index, January 2019 – July 2026, built with the Prism News API (historical and real-time news, https://radar-api.fliarbi.com/news). Every row is one news article about electric vehicles (cars, two-wheelers, buses, trucks and their charging), with its date, location, tone, editorial priority, themes and the organisations it names, plus a link that returns the full article through the API.
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Key findings
In a global news index covering January 2019 to July 2026, electric vehicles took 23.99 of every 10,000 news articles in 2019 and 41.38 in 2023, a 1.72-fold rise and the highest annual share between 2019 and 2025.
Basis: Annual electric-vehicle articles divided by all articles in the index for the same year (505,323 matched articles in the full window).
The share of global news about electric vehicles fell from 41.38 articles per 10,000 in 2023 to 32.25 in 2025, a decline of 22.1%, after rising each year from 2020 to 2023.
Basis: Annual electric-vehicle articles per 10,000 articles in the index, 2023 and 2025.
Electric vehicles took a 15.9% smaller share of news coverage in 2020 than in 2019 (20.18 against 23.99 articles per 10,000 news articles), the lowest annual share between 2019 and 2025.
Basis: Annual electric-vehicle articles divided by all articles in the index for the same year.
Of electric-vehicle articles carrying a tone label between January 2023 and July 2026, 77.7% were positive in tone, 1.37 times the 56.8% positive share across all news, and 20% were negative against 33.6% for all news.
Basis: Top sentiment label of each article, grouped into negative, neutral and positive; 100% of sampled articles carry a label.
Charging-network expansion was a theme of 12.82% of themed electric-vehicle articles between January 2023 and July 2026, 154.07 times its frequency in all themed news, and charging infrastructure in general a theme of 10.93%.
Basis: Theme labels assigned to each article; lift against all themed news.
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Coverage by country
Primary location of located articles, January 2023 – July 2026. Lift = the country's share of this topic's news ÷ its share of all located news (above 1 = over-covered).
| Country | Articles | Share | Lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 49,478 | 31.8% | 0.66 |
| India | 37,682 | 24.22% | 1.83 |
| China | 15,857 | 10.19% | 3.87 |
| United Kingdom | 9,642 | 6.2% | 1.06 |
| Germany | 4,759 | 3.06% | 2.6 |
| Japan | 4,041 | 2.6% | 2.44 |
| South Korea | 3,703 | 2.38% | 3.97 |
| Canada | 3,484 | 2.24% | 1.04 |
| Australia | 3,315 | 2.13% | 0.99 |
| France | 1,742 | 1.12% | 0.57 |
| Singapore | 1,507 | 0.97% | 1.09 |
| Italy | 1,407 | 0.9% | 0.93 |
| Spain | 1,056 | 0.68% | 0.69 |
| Sweden | 962 | 0.62% | 2.82 |
| Indonesia | 951 | 0.61% | 2.2 |
Use the API
This dataset was built with the Prism News API, which serves historical and real-time news. Install the command-line client, log in with an API key, and query the topic yourself:
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fliarbi/prism-news-api/main/scripts/install.sh | bash
prism-news login
prism-news trends "electric vehicle" --granularity monthly --tableCite
Fliar BI. Electric Vehicles in the News 2019–2026: article-level dataset and coverage tables. January 2019 – July 2026. https://fliarbi.github.io/news-datasets/electric-vehicles/