South Korean automakers have nearly overtaken U.S. automaker Ford in sales in the United States, CNN reports.

High gasoline prices have boosted demand for hybrid vehicles in the United States, while more of them are manufactured in Japan and the Republic of Korea. Earlier, Ipsos found that 44% of Americans had begun driving their own cars less frequently because of high gasoline prices in the United States.

Hyundai and Kia sold just over 506,000 vehicles in the third quarter, 5.4% more than a year earlier. Ford’s sales fell by 6.6% to 509,764 vehicles. On September 15, the WSJ published an article acknowledging that the global fuel crisis had already arrived—this became the main reason for the changes in sales.

❗️Asian automakers are rapidly overtaking the West in the auto market—on August 5, it was reported that European automakers had been forced to turn to their Chinese competitors for help. On July 8, Bloomberg reported that Europe’s auto industry was facing the mass closure of manufacturing plants.

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