The EV graveyard: All the electric cars axed by automakers this year

Hyundai confirmed to Business Insider that it will stop selling the Korean-built, standard Ioniq 6 in the US.

The retro-styled sedan never matched the success of its crossover sibling, the Ioniq 5 (which the company said saw a surprising 33% sales year-over-year increase in February and another 14% increase in March).

Hyundai said it sold just 229 Ioniq 6 units in February.

"Sedan sales have declined a lot over the past decade, and the Ioniq 6 is no exception," Sam Abuelsamid, the vice president of market research at Telemetry, told Business Insider. "Without enough sales to justify US production, the numbers just don't add up for Hyundai."

Hyundai said it plans to import a limited number of high-performance Ioniq 6 N models to the US — a pricier variant with more oomph in the electric motor and track-focused upgrades.

"In the meantime, 2025 Ioniq 6 sedans continue to be available at dealers alongside our award-winning, US-assembled Ioniq 5 and Ioniq 9 SUVs," the automaker said.

The Ioniq 6 will still ship to Canadian dealerships.

In 2019, Hyundai electrified its popular Kona crossover, swapping the gas engine for a battery-powered drivetrain.

It became one of the automaker's first mass-market EVs.

That run is now on pause. Hyundai said in February that it would not ship the 2026 Kona Electric from its Korean plants to US dealerships. Like the Ioniq 6, the Kona Electric remains available in limited numbers as a 2025 model.

The model could return for the 2027 model year.

With a starting price around $33,000, it was one of the cheapest EVs on the US market in 2025.

The Kia Niro EV has been discontinued in the US, Inside EVs reports.

First introduced in the US for the 2018 model year, the Niro EV was developed from Kia's small Niro crossover, which was also offered in hybrid and plug-in hybrid variants.

The model received a facelift for the 2026 model year, and the plug-in hybrid version was discontinued as part of the lineup adjustment.

The Niro EV was imported from Kia's Hwaseong plant in South Korea, leaving it exposed to ongoing US automotive tariffs.

Those added costs, combined with slowing sales in the EV segment, reportedly made the model increasingly difficult to justify at American dealerships, according to InsideEVs.

Kia has not responded to a request for comment from Business Insider.

The Model S was critical to Tesla's historic ascent.

When the sedan debuted in 2012, it was the company's first ground-up vehicle — and a sharp break from the slow, quirky EVs that came before it.

With hypercar-like acceleration, sleek body lines, and a tech-forward cabin, the sedan made going electric feel aspirational rather than a legacy automaker's compliance exercise.

That shift helped propel Tesla into America's dominant EV automaker.

Now, despite its historic role, CEO Elon Musk says the $94,990 sedan is headed for an "honorable discharge" after years of sliding sales.

The Model X is also going the way of the dodo.

Tesla's second built-from-scratch vehicle will end production in the second quarter of 2026 amid soft demand. The SUV starts at $99,990.

Launched in 2015, the Model X was ambitious. And complicated.

Its signature second-row falcon-wing doors — which opened by pivoting upward via electronically connected hinges mounted to the roof — became a production headache.

Musk once called the car a "Fabergé egg."

The production lines that made the two vehicles will now build the company's Optimus robots.

"We're really moving into a future that is based on autonomy," Musk said while announcing their final days, adding that the decision was "slightly sad."

Kia is also tweaking its EV plans — but more narrowly.

The Korean automaker is delaying the GT trims of two models, the EV6 and EV9. Those versions are the highest-performance variants in each lineup.

Kia confirmed to Business Insider that the GT trims are delayed "until further notice" due to "changing market conditions."

Other trims — which are made at Kia's plant in West Point, Georgia — remain on sale in the US.

"This delay does not impact the availability of other trims in the EV6 and EV9 lineups," the company said.

Volvo has confirmed to Business Insider that it's discontinuing the EX30 in the US.

The small SUV was meant to be a breakthrough in America's electric car market: a ground-up EV with a starting price under $35,000.

Tariffs — spanning both the Biden and Trump administrations — upended those plans. Volvo first intended to build the EX30 in China, then shifted production to Belgium, driving up costs and US prices.

Now, the automaker is turning its focus to the EX60, a midsize two-row SUV expected to offer up to 400 miles of range, with a US launch set for summer. The three-row EX90 remains at dealerships, too.

"Volvo Cars' commitment to electrification and our customers remains unchanged," the company said in an emailed statement.

In March, Honda said it was canceling production of its coming 0 Series Saloon and SUV.

Both vehicles — the wedge-shaped Saloon (shown above) and the SUV — were slated to be Honda's first internally developed EVs. The automaker's earlier electric models were built through a joint venture with GM.

Honda had planned to produce the cars at its Marysville, Ohio, plant with a starting price of around $50,000.

Instead, the company is pivoting toward hybrids after booking a $15.7 billion loss in its EV division.

It leaves Honda with just one electric car on US dealership lots: the Mexican-built Prologue.

Honda also scrapped plans for the RSX EV — a Tesla Model Y-style SUV — as it pulled back on its electric ambitions.

The cancellation caught some auto analysts off guard. Honda had just unveiled a production-ready version of the vehicle in August.

The car was also supposed to roll out of the Marysville plant, leaving Acura without an electric vehicle in its lineup.

German luxury automaker BMW is phasing out the i4, per Car and Driver.

The i4 — a five-seat hatchback with a sedan-like profile (what BMW calls a "Gran Coupe") — will end production by late 2026.

The model favored performance, reaching 60 mph from a standing start in as little as 3.7 seconds, with an estimated range of 268 to 333 miles.

It will be replaced by a new generation of EVs built on BMW's coming "Neue Klasse" platform, which the company says will boost performance while lowering costs.

The closest successor, an electric i3 sedan, is expected to offer up to 440 miles of range.

BMW is also phasing out its iX electric SUV in favor of a next-generation model built on its "Neue Klasse" platform.

The iX — BMW's midsize luxury EV — first hit US dealerships in 2021 as the company's second all-electric vehicle. The five-seat SUV carried a price tag ranging from about $70,000 to over $100,000, with an estimated range of 290 to 360 miles depending on the trim.

The German luxury automaker is discontinuing the iX in the US, though it will continue selling the model in Europe. American dealerships are instead preparing for the arrival of the new iX3 midsize electric SUV, which is expected to reach showrooms this summer.

"We remain fully committed to electrification in the US," a BMW spokesperson told BMW Blog. "This marks the beginning of the Neue Klasse era and the introduction of these technologies across our future portfolio."