Battery-electric car fleet
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5.87 million
European Union · end of 2024
Battery-electric car fleet in the European Union reached 5.87 million at end of 2024 (Eurostat).
- Publisher
- Eurostat
- Authority tier
- T1 Official
- Locator
- Lead paragraph
- Retrieved
- 14 Sep 2026
- Status
- Verified
What the source says
This brought the total number of battery-only electric cars to 5.87 million, representing an increase in the fleet of 32.4% compared with 2023 (4.43 million).
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- APA
- Statistical Office of the European Union. (2025). 1.45 million new battery-only electric cars in 2024. Retrieved September 14, 2026, from https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/en/web/products-eurostat-news/w/ddn-20250730-1. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_8R9T0FB063HPC8H7Q3T43XWCYT
- MLA
- Statistical Office of the European Union. "1.45 million new battery-only electric cars in 2024." 2025, https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/en/web/products-eurostat-news/w/ddn-20250730-1. Accessed 14 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_8R9T0FB063HPC8H7Q3T43XWCYT.
- Chicago
- Statistical Office of the European Union. "1.45 million new battery-only electric cars in 2024." 2025. https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/en/web/products-eurostat-news/w/ddn-20250730-1. Accessed September 14, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_8R9T0FB063HPC8H7Q3T43XWCYT.
- BibTeX
- @misc{eurostat2025fleet3xwcyt, author = {{Statistical Office of the European Union}}, title = {1.45 million new battery-only electric cars in 2024}, year = {2025}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_8R9T0FB063HPC8H7Q3T43XWCYT}, note = {Original source: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/en/web/products-eurostat-news/w/ddn-20250730-1. Accessed September 14, 2026.} }
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Primary Source
- Publisher
- Statistical Office of the European Union · homepage ↗
- Authority tier
- Tier 1 · Multilateral Official
- Report
- 1.45 million new battery-only electric cars in 2024
- Type
- Statistical release
- Published
- 30 July 2025
- Locator
- Lead paragraph
- Retrieved
- 14 September 2026
- Link status
- Reachable (HTTP 200)
- Report licence
- Open
Verification & Integrity
- Audit status
- Verified
- Review protocol
- Editorial review
- Checked on
- 17 September 2026
- Last revision
- 17 September 2026
- Archival URI
- /stat/stat_8R9T0FB063HPC8H7Q3T43XWCYT