Cyprus had lowest share of electric cars in EU in 2023

Cyprus had the lowest share in battery-only electric passenger cars in 2023 among EU member states in 2023, at just 0.201% of the total stock of passenger cars, according to data released by Eurostat.

The data focuses on battery-only cars, and not hybrid cars.

In absolute numbers, this percentage corresponds to 1253 electric cars in 2023, compared to 830 electric cars in 2022 (an increase of 423 cars, or an increase by 51%).

These shares were low in many member states. On 31 December 2023, battery-only electric cars accounted for 1.7% of all cars in the EU.

In Denmark, battery-only electric cars made up 7.1% of all passenger cars. Similarly, high shares were observed in Sweden (5.9%), Luxembourg (5.1%) and the Netherlands (5.0%).

Conversely, 14 countries recorded shares below 1%, with the lowest shares recorded in Cyprus, Greece (0.209%) and Poland (0.232%).

The same data shows that in 2023 a total of 1.5 million new battery-only electric passenger cars were registered in the EU, bringing the total number to 4.5 million. This represents a 48.5% increase compared with 2022 when the total number was 3.0 million.

The share of battery-only electric cars among new registrations reached 14.6% in 2023. This marks a continuation of the rapid increase in the adoption of electric vehicles in the EU. This share of battery-only electric cars in new registrations remained below 1% until 2018, but has grown notably over the past 4 years, rising to 5.3% in 2020, 9.0% in 2021, 12.1% in 2022 and 14.6% in 2023.

In Cyprus, the share of battery-only electric cars among new registrations has also been increasing, from 0.4% in 2020, to 0.7% in 2021, 3.5% in 2022 and 5.4% in 2023.

(Source: CNA)