Global electric vehicles through the first seven months of 2024 are expected to total 8.543 million, up 20.8%, per SNE Research. Europe’s demand is now stunted by tariffs, and Western automakers are seeing their sales decline within China – but China and other markets are still increasing their demand for EVs. Company-wise, BYD continues to occupy pole position on global electric vehicle sales, including 835,000 pure BEVs sold (it now has a 4 million NEV sales target for the year, per Morgan Stanley analyst Tim Hsiao), while Tesla is in second place with a 4.9% sales decline, including a 12.2% decline in Europe and 8.3% decline in North America. Geely Group occupies third place and Volkswagen fourth. The picture is…