Electric vehicle market: stages, trends and prospects of development

The article examines the electric vehicle market, periodizes its development, highlights the main stages of the formation and development of this market, provides their main characteristics, and systematizes the existing classification of electric vehicles. The study of the main trends of this market made it possible to identify the leading players, determine the factors of their success, as well as make an approximate forecast of the prospects for investing in this field of activity and related industries. As a result of the analysis, a number of urgent problems hindering the development of the electric car market were identified, as well as promising directions for its development were identified.