page_title: Plug-in electric vehicles in Europe
section_title: Germany
hierarchical_section_title: Plug-in electric vehicles in Europe / Main country markets / Germany
caption_attribution_description: English: Graph showing historical series of plug-in electric passenger car registrations in Germany from 2010 to 2019. My own work. Data series for annual registrations was taken from Kraftfahrt-Bundesamtes (KBA)
context_page_description: The adoption of plug-in electric vehicles in Europe is actively supported by the European Union and several national, provincial, and local governments in Europe. A variety of policies have been established to provide direct financial support to consumers and manufacturers; non-monetary incentives; subsidies for the deployment of charging infrastructure; and long term regulations with specific targets. In particular, the EU regulation that set the mandatory targets for average fleet CO
  2 emissions for new cars has been effective in contributing to the successful uptake of plug-in cars in recent years.
  Europe had more than two million plug-in electric passenger cars and light commercial vehicles on the road at the end of April 2020. The European stock of plug-in passenger is the world's second largest market after China, accounting for 25% of the global stock in 2019. Europe also has the second largest electric light commercial vehicle stock, with over 115,000 units, 31% of the global stock in 2019.
  As of December 2019, Norway is the leading country market with 384,000 units registered since 2010, followed by Germany, France and the UK.
context_section_description: As of December 2019, cumulative registrations in Germany totaled 305,787 plug-in electric passenger cars since 2010, consisting of 168,396 all-electric cars and 137,391 plug-in hybrids. In addition, Germany had a stock of 21,890 light-duty electric commercial vehicles in 2019, the second largest in Europe after France.
  A total of 54,492 plug-in cars were registered in 2017, up 217% from 2016, and rose to 67,504 in 2018. The plug-in car segment market share was 1.58% in 2017 and 1.9% in 2018. The surge in sales that took place in 2017 allowed Germany to rank as Europe's second best selling market that year, and the country moved ahead of French and the British markets for the first time ever. Again in 2018, Germany ranked second after Norway. With 108,839 plug-in passenger cars registered in 2019, Germany was the top selling country market in the European continent in 2019, with sales up 60.9% from 2018. The plug-in car segment achieved a market share of 3.10% in 2019.
  The top selling models in 2017 were the Audi A3 e-tron (4,454), Renault Zoe (4,322), and BMW i3 (4,319).
caption: Annual registration of plug-in electric cars in Germany by type of powertrain between 2010 and 2019.[50][51][52][85][148][149][150][151][152]
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