In 2023, 1.5 million new battery-only electrical passenger automobiles had been registered within the EU, bringing the entire quantity to 4.5 million. This represents a 48.5% improve in contrast with 2022 when the entire quantity was 3.0 million.
The share of battery-only electrical automobiles amongst new registrations reached 14.6% in 2023. This marks a continuation of the speedy improve within the adoption of electrical automobiles within the EU. This share of battery-only electrical automobiles in new registrations remained under 1% till 2018, however has grown notably over the previous 4 years, rising to five.3% in 2020, 9.0% in 2021, 12.1% in 2022 and 14.6% in 2023.
This info comes from information revealed by Eurostat. The article presents a handful of findings from the extra detailed Statistics Defined article on passenger automobiles within the EU.
Supply datasets: road_eqr_carpda and road_eqr_zevpc
With regards to the inventory of passenger automobiles, on 31 December 2023, battery-only electrical automobiles accounted for 1.7% of all automobiles within the EU, with noticeable variations amongst EU international locations.
In Denmark, battery-only electrical automobiles made up 7.1% of all passenger automobiles. Equally, excessive shares had been noticed in Sweden (5.9%), Luxembourg (5.1%) and the Netherlands (5.0%).
Conversely, 14 international locations recorded shares under 1%, with the bottom shares recorded in Cyprus, Greece and Poland, every at 0.2%.
Supply datasets: road_eqs_carpda and road_eqs_zevpc
For extra info
- Statistics Defined article on passenger automobiles within the EU
- Thematic part on transport
- Database on transport
- Webinar on transport statistics
Methodology observe
The shares of battery-only electrical automobiles in all passenger automobiles for the EU, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, France, the Netherlands, Poland and Slovakia are Eurostat estimates. Portugal information is provisional.