02:12 PM EDT, 07/01/2025 (MT Newswires) -- US vehicle sales growth at Ford Motor ( F ) and General Motors ( GM ) accelerated in the second quarter from a year earlier, though electric vehicle trends at both automakers were mixed.

Ford said Tuesday it sold 612,095 vehicles during the June quarter, up 14% annually. That compares with 1% growth it reported for the year-ago period.

"We blew the doors off the overall industry with our second-quarter sales," Andrew Frick, president of Ford Blue and Model e, and interim head of Ford Pro, said in a statement Tuesday.

Ford sold 82,886 electrified vehicles in the three-month period, up 6.6% year on year, though pure EVs tumbled 31% to 16,438. Sales of internal combustion engine vehicles grew almost 16%.

Separately, GM said that its US vehicle sales grew about 7% to 746,588 in the second quarter, compared with last year's 0.6% annual rise. EV sales more than doubled to 46,280 units.

Shares of Ford and GM were up more than 4% each in Tuesday late-afternoon trade.

"The industry sales pace is normalizing after stronger-than-expected industry sales in April and May," GM said in an accompanying presentation.

Overall new-vehicle sales in the US were expected to slow down in June from the spring's tariff-induced buying frenzy, Cox Automotive said last week.

"The sales forecast is showing a cooler market in June, as consumers face tighter inventory levels and reluctance on the part of most dealers to add big discounts," Charlie Chesbrough, senior economist at Cox, said June 25.

RBC Capital Markets recently projected US auto sales to post sequential and annual declines in June, saying no trade deals could further weigh on sales in the next two months.

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