Electric car sales — all countries

Electric car sales — European Union

Electric car sales in the European Union in 2025 — 2,923,210 vehicles. Since 2010, the indicator has risen by 396,536.4%.

2025 2.92M vehicles +30.97% vs 2024
World rank
Period maximum 2.92M vehicles2025
Period minimum 737 vehicles2010

Trend over time

2010–2025 · vehicles

Electric car sales — European Union, 2010–202501M2M3M2010201220142016201820202022202420252010: 737 vehicles2011: 6,824 vehicles2012: 18,505 vehicles2013: 44,767 vehicles2014: 55,278 vehicles2015: 89,896 vehicles2016: 138,298 vehicles2017: 186,234 vehicles2018: 242,562 vehicles2019: 390,359 vehicles2020: 1,040,423 vehicles2021: 1,756,712 vehicles2022: 2,012,830 vehicles2023: 2,362,160 vehicles2024: 2,231,930 vehicles2025: 2,923,210 vehicles
Change over the period: +2.92M (+396,536.36%) Average annual rate: 73.74 %

Comparison, 2025

How the value compares with the world and the groups this territory belongs to: European Union

European Union 2.92M vehicles
World 21.2M vehicles
Electric car sales — European Union, by year European Union All countries CSV XLSX
Year vehicles Change Change, %
2025 2.92M +691,280 +30.97%
2024 2.23M −130,230 −5.51%
2023 2.36M +349,330 +17.36%
2022 2.01M +256,118 +14.58%
2021 1.76M +716,289 +68.85%
2020 1.04M +650,064 +166.53%
2019 390,359 +147,797 +60.93%
2018 242,562 +56,328 +30.25%
2017 186,234 +47,936 +34.66%
2016 138,298 +48,402 +53.84%
2015 89,896 +34,618 +62.63%
2014 55,278 +10,511 +23.48%
2013 44,767 +26,262 +141.92%
2012 18,505 +11,681 +171.18%
2011 6,824 +6,087 +825.92%
2010 737

About the indicator

The number of electric passenger cars sold over the year, per International Energy Agency data. The concept covers both fully electric cars and hybrids that can be charged from the grid; ordinary hybrids without charging are left out. The growth of this series is among the fastest in the whole of the statistics: over ten years sales have risen roughly a hundredfold, and more than half of the world total is China.

Important: The IEA tracks about sixty of the largest markets, which together account for nearly the entire world total. In the remaining countries sales are not zero but are negligibly small, so aggregates are computed at a lowered coverage threshold.

Source: Global EV Outlook (IEA), license CC BY 4.0.