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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% |