Leading registered fully electric passenger cars in the Netherlands December 2020

As of December 2020, Tesla's Model 3 was the leading all-electric passenger car based on new registrations in the Netherlands. As more individuals are becoming more climate-conscious, the demand for renewable energy-powered cars continues to grow. In the Netherlands, the electric passenger car sector has shown strong signs of growth in the last four years. The number of newly registered electric passenger cars soared from 9,000 units in 2017 to almost 90,000 units in 2020. Also, the share of electric passenger cars sold has gone up from 2.6 percent in 2017 to 24.8 percent in 2020.

Electric passenger car options

Amongst the newly registered fully electric passenger cars in the Netherlands, Tesla’s Model 3 was by far the leading electric car with over 38,000 new registrations as of December 2020. Hyundai’s Kona was the second most popular option in 2020 with over 14,000 new registrations. Tesla rounds out the top three with their Model S - which is slightly more expensive than the Model 3 – and had almost 13,000 new registrations. Tesla's Model S, X, and 3 had a combined registration volume of almost 57,000 cars.

Types of electric passenger cars

Since 2017, the number of battery electric vehicles (BEVs) on the road in the Netherlands has increased significantly rising to over 180,000 vehicles compared to plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs). This has been a result of infrastructure and efficiency improvements of the BEV option. Amongst the PHEVs, Mitsubishi’s Outlander was the most popular in the Netherlands with over 22,000 new cars in 2020. Next was Volvo’s V60 plug-in hybrid with over 12,000 vehicles.