page_title: Plug-in electric vehicles in Germany
hierarchical_section_title: Plug-in electric vehicles in 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 Germany is actively supported by the German Federal Government. Under its National Plattform for Electric Mobility, Chancellor Angela Merkel set the goal in 2010 to deploy one million electric vehicles on German roads by 2020. Initially, the government did not provide subsidies to promote sales of plug-in electric vehicles, however, by the end of 2014 it was recognized that the country was well behind the set sales targets. Only electric vehicles purchased after 18 May 2016 are eligible for the bonus, and premium cars are not eligible to the incentive.
  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. The country is the largest passenger car market in Europe, however, as of December 2019, had the third largest plug-in stock in use in Europe, after Norway and the UK. As of November 2014, the country had 4,800 public charging stations.
context_section_description: The adoption of plug-in electric vehicles in  Germany is actively supported by the  German Federal Government. Under its National Plattform for Electric Mobility, Chancellor Angela Merkel set the goal in 2010 to deploy one million electric vehicles on German roads by 2020. Initially, the government did not provide subsidies to promote sales of plug-in electric vehicles, however, by the end of 2014 it was recognized that the country was well behind the set sales targets. Only electric vehicles purchased after 18 May 2016 are eligible for the bonus, and premium cars are not eligible to the incentive.
  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.  The country is the largest passenger car market in Europe, however, as of December 2019, had the third largest plug-in stock in use in Europe, after Norway and the UK. As of November 2014, the country had 4,800 public charging stations.
  The market share of plug-in electric passenger cars increased from 0.12% of new car sales in 2012, to 0.25% in 2013, and reached 0.40% in 2014. As plug-in car sales surge in 2015, the segment's market share increased to 0.7% of new car sales. The German monthly plug-in market share passed the 1% mark for the first time ever in December 2015. The market share was 0.7% in 2016, but rose to 1.6% in 2017, with sales up 217% from 2016, and attained 1.9% in 2018. Germany was the top selling country market in the European continent in 2019, with 108,839 plug-in passenger cars registered, up 60.9% from 2018. The plug-in car segment achieved a market share of 3.10% in 2019.
caption: Annual registration of plug-in electric cars in Germany by type of powertrain between 2010 and 2019.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]
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