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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 |