Electric car sales — all countries

Electric car sales — New Zealand

Electric car sales in New Zealand in 2025 — 11,600 vehicles. Ranked 44 in the world out of 59. Since 2010, the indicator has risen by 115,900%.

2025 11,600 vehicles +19.59% vs 2024
World rank 44of 59
Period maximum 30,000 vehicles2023
Period minimum 10 vehicles2010

Trend over time

2010–2025 · vehicles

Electric car sales — New Zealand, 2010–2025010,00020,00030,0002010201220142016201820202022202420252010: 10 vehicles2011: 15 vehicles2012: 27 vehicles2013: 36 vehicles2014: 320 vehicles2015: 500 vehicles2016: 1,540 vehicles2017: 3,440 vehicles2018: 5,600 vehicles2019: 6,900 vehicles2020: 5,400 vehicles2021: 10,300 vehicles2022: 28,200 vehicles2023: 30,000 vehicles2024: 9,700 vehicles2025: 11,600 vehicles
Change over the period: +11,590 (+115,900%) Average annual rate: 60.07 %

Comparison, 2025

How the value compares with the world and the groups this territory belongs to: New Zealand

New Zealand 11,600 vehicles
World 21.2M vehicles
East Asia & Pacific computed 14.31M vehicles
Australia and New Zealand computed 144,600 vehicles
High-income countries computed 6.23M vehicles
Electric car sales — New Zealand, by year New Zealand All countries CSV XLSX
Year vehicles Change Change, %
2025 11,600 +1,900 +19.59%
2024 9,700 −20,300 −67.67%
2023 30,000 +1,800 +6.38%
2022 28,200 +17,900 +173.79%
2021 10,300 +4,900 +90.74%
2020 5,400 −1,500 −21.74%
2019 6,900 +1,300 +23.21%
2018 5,600 +2,160 +62.79%
2017 3,440 +1,900 +123.38%
2016 1,540 +1,040 +208%
2015 500 +180 +56.25%
2014 320 +284 +788.89%
2013 36 +9 +33.33%
2012 27 +12 +80%
2011 15 +5 +50%
2010 10

Australia and New Zealand, 2025

The same indicator for neighboring countries — with links to their pages

AU Australia 133,000 NZ New Zealand 11,600

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.