From https://www.eco-business.com/news/analysis-evs-just-outsold-petrol-cars-in-eu-for-first-time-ever
Note that this definition, from ACEA, excludes “hybrid” cars that only run on petrol, but also have a small battery.
Overall in 2025, EVs reached 17.4% of the market share
I thought that it wouldn’t happen until 2040 or something.
Seems like the liberticidal low-emission zones were never a necessity in the first place…
Being from France, i found this for the 2025 car sales :
As a sidenote, here’s from China as well, makes you hopeful for the future of carbon emissions : https://lemmygrad.ml/post/5330918
(source)
Definitely not the case here in Czechia yet. West/northern countries must be doing the heavy lifting. Still good news tho
Not worse than Italy or Spain : https://alternative-fuels-observatory.ec.europa.eu/interactive-map#1_eu_alternative_fuels_fleet
The BEV(, electric,) and PHEV(, Plug-in Hybrid,) are growing fast in Czechia as well : https://alternative-fuels-observatory.ec.europa.eu/transport-mode/road/czech-republic/vehicles-and-fleet
Market share of total registrations :
I haven’t found a comparison with petrol cars, but it’s the same percentage as in Italy for example(, and growing fast) : https://alternative-fuels-observatory.ec.europa.eu/transport-mode/road/italy/vehicles-and-fleet
Yes, the numbers here aren’t too impressive but at least the growth is promissing
But so this only comparing pure electric vs pure petrol without diesel and hybrid?
Yeah, from the article the graph is from :
The figures show that registrations of battery EVs – sometimes referred to as BEVs, or “pure EVs” – reached 217,898, up 51 per cent year-on-year from December 2024, as shown in the chart below.
Meanwhile, sales of standard petrol cars in the bloc fell 19 per cent year-on-year, from 267,834 in December 2024 to 216,492 in December 2025.From this graph below, it was already the case before for Hybrid+Electric vs. Petrol+Diesel, but the grap of the post was BEV vs. Petrol : https://www.acea.auto/figure/fuel-types-of-new-passenger-cars-in-eu
But of course, if we’re considering the total cars currently in circulation, then it’s less optimistic(, for now) : https://www.acea.auto/publication/report-vehicles-on-european-roads-2026
