site.btaNew EV Registrations in EU Up by Nearly 30% in 2025

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, Eurostat said on Friday. This came after a decline in 2024, when new registrations fell by 6% 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.

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% (1.07 million), and pure petrol passenger cars observed a comparable decline of 18.4% (2.98 million).