Fleet of electric passenger cars on the road in the Netherlands 2013-2020, by type

In 2020, the total fleet of electric passenger cars in the Netherlands amounted to approximately 292,000. The number of battery electric vehicles (BEV) showed significant growth, from a little over 107,000 BEVs in 2019 to nearly 182,500 in 2020. The volume of plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHEV) reached almost 110,000 units in 2020. 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 24.8 percent in 2018, an increase of nearly 10 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 60,000 charging points combined across the Netherlands, an increase from the previous year, when there were just over 52,600 charging stations to be found in total (public, semi-public, and fast charging). Moreover, it is estimated that there were an additional 150,000 private charging points in the Netherlands in 2019.

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, with over 38,000 registered vehicles as of December 2020. The Hyundai Kona accumulated more than 14,000 registrations, and the Tesla Model S had around 12,800 units registered. The Tesla Model X was ranked as the tenth most popular electric car in terms of the total number of registrations. When combining the volumes of all three models, Tesla sold nearly 56,600 of these vehicles in the Netherlands.