In absolute numbers, this translates to 1253 electric vehicles in 2023, an increase from 2022 when 830 electric vehicles were recorded (an increase of 423 vehicles, or 51%).
However the rates were low in many of the Member States. At EU level, on 31 December 2023 battery electric cars accounted for 1.7% of all cars in the EU.
In Denmark, electric cars only with battery made up 7.1% of all passenger cars. High shares were also recorded in Sweden (5.9%), Luxembourg (5.1%) and the Netherlands (5.0%).
A total of 14 countries recorded shares below 1%, with the lowest shares recorded in Cyprus, Greece (0.209%) and Poland (0.232%).
According to with the same figures, a total of 1.5 million new battery electric cars were registered in EU Member States in 2023, bringing the total number to 4.5 million (a 48.5% increase compared to 2022, when the total number was 3.0 million).
In 2023 14.6% of new car registrations were battery electric cars. In 2018 this figure was below 1%, but has increased significantly over the last four years, reaching 5.3% in 2020, 9.0% in 2021, 12.1% in 2022 and 14.6% in 2023.
The percentage of electric cars among new registrations in Cyprus has also been increasing in recent years, from 0.4% in 2020, to 0.7% in 2021, 3.5% in 2022 and 5.4% in 2023.
Source: KYPE
