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.

New battery-only electric passenger cars registered during the year in the EU, 2023-2025. Bar chart - Click below to see full dataset.

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).

New registrations of passenger cars by type of engine fuel in the EU, 2023-2025. Bar chart - Click below to see full dataset.

Source dataset: road_eqr_carpda

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