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Sales of electric cars rose 33.8% to 89.1 thousand in Netherlands in 2020, according to ACEA.
Historically, sales of electric cars in Netherlands reached an all time high of 89.1 thousand in 2020 and an all time low of 0.010 thousand in 2008. When compared to Netherlands's main peers, sales of electric cars in Belgium amounted to 46.3 thousand, 32.5 thousand in Denmark, 395 thousand in Germany and 175 thousand in United Kingdom in 2020.
Netherlands has been ranked 6th within the group of 29 countries we follow in terms of sales of electric cars, 3 places above the position seen 10 years ago.
| Sales of Total Chargeable Electric Vehicles | Unit | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 |
| Austria | thousand | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 1.72 | 2.79 | 5.07 | 7.15 | 8.65 | |||
| Belgium | thousand | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 2.05 | 3.84 | 8.96 | 14.3 | 13.4 | |||
| Denmark | thousand | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 1.62 | 5.30 | 2.06 | 1.34 | 4.68 | |||
| France | thousand | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 12.5 | 22.9 | 29.2 | 36.8 | 45.6 | |||||||
| Germany | thousand | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 13.1 | 23.6 | 25.2 | 54.6 | 67.7 | |||||||
| Ireland | thousand | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 0.256 | 0.583 | 0.690 | 0.948 | 1.97 | |||
| Luxembourg | thousand | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ||
| Netherlands | thousand | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 14.8 | 44.4 | 22.8 | 11.1 | 29.7 | ||||||||
| Norway | thousand | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 19.8 | 33.8 | 44.9 | 62.3 | 72.7 | |||||||||
| Poland | thousand | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 0.141 | 0.337 | 0.556 | 1.07 | 1.32 | |||
| Sweden | thousand | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 1.41 | 2.25 | 13.2 | 19.7 | 28.3 | |||
| United Kingdom | thousand | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 14.6 | 28.7 | 36.9 | 47.3 | 59.9 |
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