Fleet of electric passenger cars on the road in the Netherlands 2013-2022, by type

In 2022, the total fleet of battery electric and plug-in hybrid electric passenger cars in the Netherlands amounted to approximately 703,000. The number of battery electric vehicles (BEV) showed significant growth, from a little under 382,000 BEVs in 2021 to nearly 516,000 in 2020. The volume of plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHEV) reached almost 187,000 units in 2022. Considering the electric passenger cars’ performance in the automotive market, after struggling between 2015 and 2017, their market share has been significantly increasing since 2018. In fact, the market share of newly registered electric cars amounted to 34.9 percent in 2022, an increase of nearly five percentage points compared to the previous year.

Growth in electric vehicle charging stations

For electric car owners to charge their vehicles along the way, dedicated charging stations are needed along the road network. Most of these stations are public and semi-public, providing upwards of 123,000 charging points combined across the Netherlands, an increase from the previous year, when there were just under 85,500 charging stations to be found in total (public, semi-public, and fast charging). Moreover, it is estimated that there were an additional 345,000 private charging points in the Netherlands in 2022.

Tesla Model 3: most popular electric car

Among the leading fully electric passenger cars registered in the Netherlands, the Tesla Model 3 was the most registered electric car in the country's passenger car fleet, with over 42,600 registered vehicles as of January 2023. The Kia Niro accumulated nearly 20,000 registrations, and the Volkswagen ID.3 had around 16,800 units registered. Volkswagen and Tesla are the only two brands represented with two models in the top ten battery electric cars in the Dutch fleet. The Tesla Model X was ranked as the ninth most popular electric car and the Volkswagen Golf ranked tenth.