Battery electric share of new cars
New battery electric passenger cars as a percentage of all new passenger car registrations in the year.
New registrations reported by national vehicle registers to Eurostat. Battery electric cars run only on electricity; plug-in hybrids are counted separately by Eurostat and are not included here.
Key facts
- Battery electric share of new cars in the European Union (27) was 17.3% in 2025, according to Eurostat.
- Denmark had the highest battery electric share of new cars of 27 EU countries in 2025, at 67.8%, and Croatia the lowest, at 1.9%. Source: Eurostat.
- Published for 28 places, with figures from 2013 to 2025.
Rankings
EU countries by battery electric share of new cars, 2025
How it is calculated
Invokely calculation: new battery electric cars divided by all new passenger cars, times 100, both from Eurostat road_eqr_carpda for the same country and year.
Places with data
World, EU and euro area
Countries
- Germany
- France
- Italy
- Spain
- Poland
- Romania
- Netherlands
- Belgium
- Czechia
- Portugal
- Bulgaria
- Slovenia
- Slovakia
- Denmark
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
Use this data in your AI agent
Invokely serves this figure to AI assistants through MCP and to code through a REST API, with the source and citation attached. Ask your assistant:
Which places have the highest battery electric share of new cars? Use official data and cite it.
rank_places {"indicator":"battery_electric_new_car_share","level":"country","within":"European Union (27)"}
GET https://invokely.ai/api/v1/rank?indicator=battery_electric_new_car_share&level=country&within=European%20Union%20(27)