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)
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
Definitely not the case here in Czechia yet. West/northern countries must be doing the heavy lifting. Still good news
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
