Almost 99 percent have a combustion engine
Car manufacturers are launching one new electric model after another in Europe. Yet only one percent of the total European vehicle fleet consists of electric cars. This and more is evident from an extensive report published by the trade organization European Automobile Manufacturers Association (ACEA).
12 percent of all new cars registered in the European Union in 2022 had a fully electric powertrain. That share has never been this high before, but that certainly does not mean that a large part of the European vehicle fleet now consists of EVs. That is of course not so surprising. The European Union’s vehicle fleet consisted of 252,237,775 passenger cars in 2022, and of course the lion’s share is not one or two years old. What will be the share of electric cars in the total vehicle fleet in the EU in 2022? Quite small: 1.2 percent.
By far the largest part of the vehicle fleet in the European Union has a petrol engine: 50.6 percent. The share of diesel cars in the total is also enormous at 40.1 percent. Exactly one percent is a plug-in hybrid and 3.1 percent has a hybrid powertrain without a plug. In 2022, 2.6 percent of passenger cars in the EU had a combustion engine that requires LPG. The share of cars that run on CNG is even lower at 0.1 percent. The bottom line is that just under 99 percent of the European vehicle fleet would have a combustion engine by 2022.
In 2022, 78.2 percent of the total Dutch passenger car fleet had a petrol engine, 9.8 percent a diesel engine and 4.9 percent a hybrid powertrain. 2.1 percent had a plug-in hybrid powertrain. The share of EVs in the Dutch vehicle fleet was 3.7 percent in 2022. Above the Europe-wide figure. Norway is logically not included in ACEA’s EU figures. It is clear how large the share of EVs in the total fleet there was in 2022: very large. As many as 20.8 percent of all passenger cars in Norway would be fully electric by 2022. Of the EU countries, the Netherlands was only behind Denmark and Sweden in terms of EV share (both 4 percent).
ACEA does not yet have figures on the status of the EU vehicle fleet in 2023.
– Thanks for information from Autoweek.nl