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Sales of Alternatively-powered Vehicles in Europe by Country

As % of New Cars Sold, 3Q2022, Best Performers
Automotive | November 24, 2022
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Sales of new electrically-chargeable passenger cars (battery electric and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles) reached 555 thousand in the third quarter of 2022 in the enlarged Europe (EU plus Iceland, Norway and Switzerland), according to ACEA. This is 4.02% more, or 533 thousand more than in the previous year.

When hybrid electric vehicles (cars that combine a conventional internal combustion engine system with an electric propulsion system) and other alternatively-powered cars (such as natural gas vehicles (NGV), LPG-fueled vehicles and ethanol (E85) vehicles) are included, total sales of alternatively-powered cars (other than using diesel or petrol) amounted to 1,172 thousand vehicles in the third quarter of 2022. This is 5.02% more, or 56 thousand more than in the previous year.

Together with electric chargeable vehicles, the share of total alternatively-powered vehicles increased to 48.9% of all new passenger cars sold in 3Q2022, up from 46.8% seen in the third quarter of 2021:

In relative terms, Norway liked the alternatively-powered vehicles the most in the third quarter of 2022 with 93.8% of all new passenger cars sold followed by Finland (71.4%) and Iceland (68.2%). On the other hand, alternatively-fuelled cars represented only 22.7% of all cars sold in Slovenia, 20.7% in Czechia and 6.28% in Bulgaria, according to ACEA.

Battery Electric Vehicles (As % of New Cars Sold) Unit Dec 2017 Mar 2018 Jun 2018 Sep 2018 Dec 2018 Mar 2019 Jun 2019 Sep 2019 Dec 2019 Mar 2020 Jun 2020 Sep 2020 Dec 2020 Mar 2021 Jun 2021 Sep 2021 Dec 2021 Mar 2022 Jun 2022 Sep 2022 Dec 2022
Austria % ... 12.3% 15.8% 18.5% 13.7% 13.0%
Denmark % ... ... ... 8.42% 17.4% 22.0% 17.4% 15.8%
Finland % ... 9.15% 10.4% 18.8% 14.0% 13.4%
France % ... 8.74% 10.2% 13.9% 11.9% 12.3%
Germany % ... 11.5% 14.1% 19.7% 13.4% 13.7%
Hungary % ... 2.05% 3.70% 7.25% 4.44% 3.46%
Iceland % ... ... ... ... ... 17.8% 29.8% 40.3% 41.5% 17.7%
Italy % ... 3.88% 5.99% 6.91% 3.34% 3.95%
Luxembourg % ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 8.10% 10.5% 16.6% 14.2% 15.2%
Netherlands % ... 14.1% 18.1% 39.2% 15.8% 22.8%
Norway % ... ... 60.7% 72.3% 70.0% 82.9% 75.7%
Portugal % ... 6.18% 10.1% 15.9% 10.6% 9.68%
Sweden % ... 21.3% 24.9% 29.3% 28.3% 26.9%
Switzerland % ... 11.2% 14.6% 19.5% 16.3% 16.6%
United Kingdom % ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 8.69% 12.6% 19.8% 15.4% 13.3%