Ten percent of cars sold in the European Union are electric

In the first half of 2022, 4,608,205 new passenger cars were registered in the European Union. Of these, 457,608 had a fully electric powertrain, no less than 28.4 percent more than in the same period last year. This is according to figures from the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA). So 9.9 percent of all new passenger cars registered this year were EVs.

The number of cars with only a conventional petrol or diesel engine continues to fall sharply. Of all passenger cars registered in the first half of 2022, 1,748,561 had a petrol engine. With a share of 37.9 percent, the petrol car took the largest bite out of the registration pie, although the number of registered new petrol cars was 22.2 percent lower than in the first half of last year. The share of petrol cars is 3 percentage points lower than in the first half of 2021. To date, 803,013 new passenger cars with a diesel engine have been registered in the European Union this year, 30.6 percent less than in the first six months of 2021. claim a market share of 17.4 percent in the first half of 2022.

Although there were 9.6 percent fewer new plug-in hybrids registered with 403,217 units, the share of plug-ins in the total registrations increased by 0.3 percentage point to 8.7 percent. Cars with a plug-less hybrid powertrain accounted for a market share of 22.8 percent with 1,052,715 units registered in the first half. This is 3.2 percent more copies than in the same period last year. Striking is the decrease in the sale of cars that like CNG (11,267 units, -59.3 percent).

In the Netherlands, with 29,609 units, about 83 percent more EVs were registered in the first half of 2022 than in the first half of 2021. In Germany, this is an increase of 12.5 percent to 167,503 units. In France, sales of EVs increased by 28.7 percent to 94,344 units, in Spain by 54.9 percent to 14,338 units.