New zero-emission cars in European Union
Zero-emission cars made up 17.3% of new passenger cars registered in the European Union in 2025. The value for 2025 is the highest in the series, which starts in 2013.
European Union is a group: European Union, 27 member states (composition from February 2020). The value is the aggregate published by Eurostat, not an average calculated on this site.
European Union, 2025
17.3%
Change from 2024
+3.7percentage points
New zero-emission cars in European Union over time
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% of newly registered passenger cars. Source: Eurostat. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.
| Period | European Union |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 17.3% |
| 2024 | 13.5% |
| 2023 | 14.5% |
| 2022 | 12.1% |
| 2021 | 9.0% |
| 2020 | 5.3% |
| 2019 | 1.9% |
| 2018 | 1.0% |
| 2017 | 0.7% |
| 2016 | 0.4% |
| 2015 | 0.4% |
| 2014 | 0.3% |
| 2013 | 0.2% |
A dash means no value was published for that period.
In short
- That is a change of +3.7 percentage points from 13.5% in 2024.
- Since 2015, when it was 0.4%, the figure has changed by +16.8 percentage points.
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