Briefing

Despite headwinds, EU electric car sales keep growing

February 1, 2023

T&E's dashboard shows that EU electric car sales remained stable in 2022, growing at a slightly slower pace. With huge waiting lists for electric vehicles, EU carmakers need to step up supply – or risk not just losing sales to foreign rivals but also their hopes for a European battery industrial chain.

Most up-to-date data is available here.


EU electric car sales remained stable in 2022, growing at a slightly slower pace.

Despite a difficult start to the year, the battery electric vehicle (BEV) market managed to overcome supply chain issues and finish 2022 with a 3%p growth in its share of the EU vehicles market:

  • Battery electric vehicles now make up 12.1% of sales;
  • Plug-in hybrid (PHEV) sales grew to make up 9.4% of the market;
  • Diesel cars were overtaken by plug-in vehicles (BEVs & PHEVs) as diesel cars’ share of the market is falling and now make up only 16%;
  • BEVs make up 56% of all plug-in vehicle sales, as PHEV sales share grew only by 0.5%p in 2022.

With huge waiting lists for BEVs, EU carmakers need to step up supply – or risk not just losing sales to foreign rivals but also their hopes for a European battery industrial chain.

Related Articles

View All
Opinion

'Made in Europe' rules: how to do them

It's about time the EU requires parts of key products to be made locally – and nowhere is this more urgent than in the battery sector.

Publication

Interactive dashboard: which countries have the greenest tax systems?

T&E Good Tax Guide

Yearly publication analysing and comparing the car taxation systems across 31 countries in Europe.

Press Release

Germany pushes companies towards polluting SUVs instead of electric - new study finds

The tax incentives in Germany to steer companies towards electric cars are amongst the weakest in Europe and three times lower than in France. Poland,...