New passenger car registrations vs Electric cars as a share of new car sales in European Union
In 2025, new passenger car registrations in European Union was 11 million; electric cars as a share of new car sales was 28%.
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European Union, annual figures, spaced by time from 2024 to 2025 . Different units, drawn on separate scales and clipped to the years both series publish; earlier history stays on each indicator’s own page. Read the values, not the heights.
New passenger car registrations
Unit: million · 2 observations
Estimates are listed as such in the table below
Electric cars as a share of new car sales
Unit: % · 2 observations
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2 periods are published for both series in European Union as annual figures on the same basis. Comparing anything else would mean comparing different periods.
| Period | New passenger car registrations | Electric cars as a share of new car sales |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 10.6 million ACEA | 20% IEA |
| 2025 | 11 million ICCT | 28% IEA |
Provenance
Where these numbers come from
New passenger car registrations
Total new passenger car registrations of all powertrain types in the region during the calendar year.
2 observations charted in European Union · source organisations: ACEA, ICCT
Electric cars as a share of new car sales
Battery-electric and plug-in hybrid passenger cars as a percentage of all new passenger car sales in the region during the calendar year.
2 observations charted in European Union · source organisations: IEA
Data published under CC BY 4.0. Series A as JSON · Series B as JSON
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