Passenger electric vehicles - new registration market share 2021

In the European Union, the share of new passenger car registrations with all-electric propulsion peaked at nine percent in 2021. Meanwhile, plug-in hybrid electric vehicle registrations experienced a somewhat moderate growth between 2015 and 2019, only to surge to 8.91 percent in 2021. Registrations of battery electric vehicles in Europe reached almost 1.3 million units in 2021.

More EV charging stations available

The higher adoption level of electric vehicles (EVs) goes hand in hand with efforts of European countries to improve infrastructure for such vehicles by increasing the number of charging stations available. The number of charging stations in Europe and Turkey increased by 35 percent between 2019 and 2020. Almost 286,000 had become available across the continent in 2020.

Renault and Tesla take the lead

The leading EV car models in Europe included Tesla's Model 3 and the Volkswagen ID.3. The Renault Zoe and Volkswagen's ID.4 model rounded off the top four.