What EU country boasts the highest share of hybrid and electric passenger car registrations?

Finland reported the highest share of hybrid and electric car registrations in the European Union last year, with 77% of all new registrations falling under one of these categories.

According to the Eurostat data, some 44% of new registrations in Finland last year were hybrid cars, while 34% were electric vehicles.

Other countries to report a sizeable percentage of hybrid and electric car registrations included Sweden (69%), with 30% hybrid and 39% electric registrations, and the Netherlands (68%), with 37% hybrid and 31% electric registrations.

At the opposite end of the scale, Bulgaria reported the lowest percentage of hybrid and electric car registrations in the EU last year, at 7%, followed by Czechia (20%) and Croatia (28%).

Last year, some 10.7 million passenger cars were registered in the EU, with non-plug-in hybrid petrol-electric cars accounting for 21.1% of new registrations and battery-only electric cars accounting for 14.5%. Pure petrol cars accounted for 34.5%, and pure diesel cars 14.3%.

In 2023, hybrid and electric vehicles together achieved near parity with traditional petrol and diesel cars, representing 48.3% of new registrations compared to 48.8% for conventional internal combustion engine vehicles. Read more here.

New passenger car registrations – hybrid/EVs, 2023

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