In 2024, 1.45 million new battery-only electric passenger cars were registered in the EU, a decrease of 6.1% compared with 2023 (1.55 million). This brought the total number of battery-only electric cars to 5.87 million, representing an increase in the fleet of 32.4% compared with 2023 (4.43 million).
This information comes from data published by Eurostat. The article presents a handful of findings from the more detailed Statistics Explained article on passenger cars in the EU.Evolution of the EU's fleet of battery-only electric passenger cars, 2013-2024. Bar chart - Click below to see full dataset.
The share of battery-only electric cars among all new registrations fell to 13.6% in 2024, 1.0 percentage point (pp) below the level in 2023 (14.6%). This share had remained below 1% until 2018, but grown notably in recent years, rising to 5.3% in 2020, 9.0% in 2021 and 12.1% in 2022. (....)