Europe Electric cars: Rising number of new registrations

14 August 2026 - In Germany 19.1% or 545,142 of 2,857,591 newly registered passenger cars in 2025 ran on electricity. In Norway 95.1% newly registered passen­ger cars were electric vehicles, followed by the Denmark (67.8%) and Iceland (41.2%).

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Eurostat. Data as of 14.08.2026. The latest data can be found in the Eurostat database.

For detailed data on Germany please consult the German language web­site of the Kraft­fahrt-Bundes­amt. For more data on trans­port in Germany please consult the corres­ponding theme page on the main Destatis website.

More information on the deploy­ment of alternative fuels in Europe are avail­able on the Euro­pean Alter­native Fuels Observ­atory (EAFO) website.