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Across the countries recorded in this statistic, Germany reported the largest plug-in electric vehicle sales, followed by the United Kingdom and France

German electric vehicle market soars

Germany is the leading European market for plug-in electric car sales. Germany recorded some ** new registrations of plug-in electric vehicles in the passenger car segment in 2024 with battery electric vehicle sales accounting for about **** percent of this tally. The level of Germany's plug-in hybrid electric car sales was equally impressive at nearly ** units, the highest value in this category in Europe's key electric vehicle markets. As of January 2024, around *** million battery-electric vehicles were on the road in Germany.

Environmental framework

Europe represented ** percent of the global transport sector's carbon dioxide emissions in 2023. A year earlier, Germany was the European Union country with the largest transport sector CO₂ emissions. In order to curb the EU's transport emissions, the European Commission set a 2035 deadline to end sale of CO₂ emitting cars, especially fossil fuel vehicles, in 2022, though that deal has been challenged by various countries.