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Sales of Alternatively Powered Vehicles

Number of Vehicles (thousand), 3Q2022, Europe
Automotive | November 24, 2022
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Sales of new electrically-chargeable passenger cars (battery electric and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles) reached 555 thousand in the third quarter of 2022 in the enlarged Europe (EU plus Iceland, Norway and Switzerland), according to ACEA. This is 4.02% more, or 533 thousand more than in the previous year. Share of electric chargeable vehicles increased to 23.2% of all new passenger cars sold in 3Q2022, up from 22.4% seen in the third quarter of 2021.

Most electric vehicles (182 thousand) were sold in Germany (up 10.1% yoy), followed by the United Kingdom (83.1 thousand, up 3.72%), France with 73.4 thousand thousand cars (up 13.8%), 30.6 thousand new vehicles were registered in Sweden (up 9.74%) and 29.7 thousand in Norway (down 25.3%).

In relative terms, Norway liked the electric chargeable vehicles the most in the third quarter of 2022 with 86.7% of all new passenger cars sold followed by Iceland (51.0%) and Sweden (50.6%).

Altogether, sale of alternative powered vehicles, including chargeable, hybrid and other alternative fuels vehicles (fuelled by NGV, LPG, or ethanol), accounted for 48.9% of new cars sold in the third quarter of 2022.

Sales of traditionally-powered vehicles using petrol and diesel reached 1,223 thousand in the third quarter of 2022. The share of petrol reached 36.5% and share of diesel-powered vehicles 14.6% of all new passenger cars sold in 3Q2022.

Sales of Battery Electric Vehicles Unit Dec 2017 Mar 2018 Jun 2018 Sep 2018 Dec 2018 Mar 2019 Jun 2019 Sep 2019 Dec 2019 Mar 2020 Jun 2020 Sep 2020 Dec 2020 Mar 2021 Jun 2021 Sep 2021 Dec 2021 Mar 2022 Jun 2022 Sep 2022 Dec 2022
Austria thousand 8.73 8.79 9.24 7.18 7.33
Belgium thousand 5.07 6.18 7.38 9.64 7.56
Denmark thousand 4.43 7.58 9.99 5.95 6.23
France thousand 42.0 34.4 55.2 43.5 49.8
Germany thousand 84.1 88.1 119 83.8 83.7
Ireland thousand 1.51 3.49 0.827 6.24 2.21
Italy thousand 17.0 16.8 20.2 11.3 13.7
Netherlands thousand 11.6 13.7 33.9 12.4 17.2
Norway thousand 28.9 32.5 33.2 26.8 27.4
Poland thousand 1.53 1.62 3.07 2.29 2.56
Portugal thousand 3.12 3.14 5.42 3.70 3.94
Spain thousand 5.81 5.78 8.66 7.25 7.09
Sweden thousand 17.5 14.8 20.1 19.7 20.0
Switzerland thousand 7.60 8.13 11.4 8.84 9.20
United Kingdom thousand 42.1 51.2 65.6 64.2 51.1