Zero-emission share of new passenger cars
Newly registered passenger cars that produce no exhaust emissions (battery electric and hydrogen fuel cell), as a share of all new passenger cars registered in the year.
39 countries have a value for 2025, the latest period in the data.
Trend 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 | Germany | France | Spain |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17.3% | 19.1% | 19.6% | 8.7% |
| 2024 | 13.5% | 13.5% | 16.6% | 5.6% |
| 2023 | 14.5% | 18.4% | 16.5% | 5.6% |
| 2022 | 12.1% | 17.8% | 13.2% | 3.7% |
| 2021 | 9.0% | 13.6% | 9.7% | 2.7% |
| 2020 | 5.3% | 6.7% | 6.7% | 2.0% |
| 2019 | 1.9% | 1.8% | 1.9% | 0.8% |
| 2018 | 1.0% | 1.1% | 1.4% | 0.4% |
| 2017 | 0.7% | 0.7% | 1.2% | 0.3% |
| 2016 | 0.4% | 0.3% | 1.1% | 0.2% |
| 2015 | 0.4% | 0.4% | 0.9% | 0.3% |
| 2014 | 0.3% | 0.3% | 0.6% | 0.1% |
| 2013 | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.5% | 0.1% |
A dash means no value was published for that period.
In short
- Among the 39 countries with a value for 2025, the highest is Norway (95.1%) and the lowest Bosnia and Herzegovina (0.7%).
- Half of the countries are above 10.1% and half below.
- From 2024 to 2025 the value rose in 32 countries and fell in 7.
- The figure for the European Union was 17.3% in 2025, against 5.3% in 2020 (+11.9 percentage points).
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All countries in 2025 Every value is for 2025, so the countries are compared at the same point in time.
- 1 Norway 95.1%
- 2 Denmark 67.8%
- 3 Iceland 41.2%
- 4 Netherlands 40.2%
- 5 Malta 37.6%
- 6 Finland 37.2%
- 7 Sweden 36.4%
- 8 Belgium 34.1%
- 9 Ukraine 28.6%
- 10 Luxembourg 26.6%
- 11 Liechtenstein 25.2%
- 12 Portugal 23.3%
- 13 Switzerland 22.3%
- 14 Austria 21.3%
- 15 France 19.6%
- 16 Germany 19.1%
- 17 Ireland 18.6%
- 18 Türkiye 16.7%
- 19 Slovenia 11.1%
- 20 Cyprus 10.1%
- 21 Georgia 9.6%
- 22 Lithuania 8.9%
- 23 Spain 8.7%
- 24 Hungary 8.5%
- 25 Poland 7.2%
- 26 Latvia 7.1%
- 27 Estonia 6.6%
- 28 Greece 6.2%
- 29 Italy 6.1%
- 30 Czechia 5.9%
- 31 Romania 5.6%
- 32 Bulgaria 4.9%
- 33 Slovakia 4.7%
- 34 Moldova 3.6%
- 35 Croatia 1.9%
- 36 Montenegro 1.8%
- 37 Serbia 1.7%
- 38 Kosovo 1.4%
- 39 Bosnia and Herzegovina 0.7%
- European Union 17.3%
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Grey: no value for 2025. Colour groups split countries into roughly equal numbers. Boundaries: Natural Earth.