In 2025, 1.89 million new battery-only electric passenger cars were registered in the EU, marking a strong rebound of 29.7% compared with 2024. This came after a decline in 2024, when new registrations fell by 6.0% compared with 2023 (1.46 million cars).
The total number of battery-only electric passenger cars reached 7.59 million in 2025, representing a 31.5% increase compared with the 2024 fleet of 5.77 million.
This information comes from data on passenger cars published by Eurostat. The article presents a handful of findings from the more detailed Statistics Explained article on passenger cars in the EU.
Source datasets: road_eqr_carpda and road_eqr_zev
Plug-in hybrids recorded a growth rate of 34.2%, similar to battery-only electric cars in new registrations compared with 2024, reaching a total of 1.03 million plug-in hybrid new registrations in 2025. At the same time, new registrations of non-plug-in hybrids grew at less than half the rate (+13.4%); nevertheless, the total number of new registrations of non-plug-in hybrids reached 3.62 million cars, exceeding the number of any other type of new cars.
Meanwhile, registrations of new pure diesel passenger cars fell by 22.0% (1.07 million), and pure petrol passenger cars observed a comparable decline of 18.4% (2.98 million).
Source dataset: road_eqr_carpda
For more information
- Statistics Explained article on passenger cars in the EU
- Thematic section on transport
- Database on transport
- Webinar on transport statistics
Methodological notes
The figures in millions presented in this news article for numbers of vehicles are rounded to 2 decimal points; the non-rounded numbers can be found in the relevant Statistics Explained article. The change percentages in the article have been calculated on the non-rounded figures.