Tesla vehicles took the four top places from the 2025 US-made index (AMI), an annual list calculated by Cars.com that ranks qualifying vehicles built and purchased in the United States.
Tesla’s rule in the Ami is not new. The US car, which assembles its four light passenger vehicles in Texas and California, landed in the top 10 since it began participating in the annual ranking five years ago. This year, the Model 3 was ranked as the most “US-made” vehicle sold in the United States.
But here’s what might surprise consumers-and even those who follow the industry: EVs took six of the top 10 places in the US-made index. In addition to Tesla, the KIA EV6 and the Volkswagen ID4 took the 6th and 10 points respectively.
The annual index ranks current model-year vehicles using five major factors, including the site of a final assembly, a percentage of US and Canadian parts, originating countries for all available engines, originating countries for all available deliveries, and US manufacturing workforce. About 400 vehicles of the 2025 model were studied to arrive at the 99 vehicles on the US manufactured index of 2025, according to CARS.com. Heavy vehicles like the Tesla Cybertruck and the RIVIA R1s, both made in the United States, do not qualify.
The KIE EV6, which is assembled at the West Point’s West Point, Georgia Factory, took another eyebrow prize. The KIE EV6 contains 80% US and Canadian parts, the highest percentage of any vehicle sold in the United States today.
Cars.come noted that only eight EVs qualified for the 2024 index. This year, 11 battery electric vehicles made it on the AMI, including the Ford F-150 Lightning, Hyundai Ioniq 5, and the KIA EV9 SUV. And others 19 are hybrids and plugin hybrids. The statistics prove “the push of the industry for electrification was not a mere LIP service,” according to CARS.com.
The question is whether rates, higher prices and the End of the Federal EV tax credits (Which Senate proposed in its tax and budget tax) will reject this electrical trajectory?
