{"id":71667,"date":"2021-05-27T03:00:09","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T01:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/?p=71667"},"modified":"2021-09-10T11:31:29","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T09:31:29","slug":"how-many-electric-cars-are-sold-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/en\/how-many-electric-cars-are-sold-in-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"How many electric cars are sold in Europe?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In 2020, the European Union (EU<\/a>) exported close to 5.2 million cars (petrol, diesel, electric and hybrid electric cars), while 3.0 million cars were imported.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Petrol cars accounted for the majority of exported cars (64% of\u00a0extra-EU<\/a>\u00a0car exports), followed by diesel cars (22%) and electric & hybrid electric cars (14%). In terms of imports, petrol cars accounted for over a half of extra-EU car imports (53%), followed by electric and hybrid electric cars (30%) and diesel cars (18%).<\/p>\n

\"Infographic:<\/a>When looking at the 725 thousand exported electric cars and hybrid electric cars in detail: almost half of them were non-plug-in hybrid (49%), while around a quarter each were electric (27%) or plug-in hybrid (24%). Out of 892 thousand imported electric and hybrid electric cars, a half were non-plug-in hybrid (50%), a third were electric (34%) and plug-in hybrid accounted for the remaining share (16%).<\/p>\n

Recent trends in car trade in the spotlight<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Despite the general\u00a0decrease\u00a0<\/a>in trade following the restrictive measures taken in response to the COVID-19 outbreak, the EU\u2019s exports and imports of electric and hybrid electric cars continued to gradually increase. Compared with 2017, extra-EU exports of electric and hybrid electric cars recorded almost a fivefold increase from 150 thousand exported cars in 2017 to 725 thousand in 2020, while extra-EU imports almost tripled from 301 thousand imported cars in 2017 to 892 thousand in 2020.<\/p>\n

\"Infographic:<\/a>\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200bHalf of electric and hybrid electric car imports from Japan and the US<\/strong><\/h3>\n

In 2020, the main destinations for EU exports of electric and hybrid electric cars was the United Kingdom (accounting for 39% of exported cars), followed by the United States (16%), Norway (10%) and China (9%).<\/p>\n

Almost half of electric and hybrid electric car imports came to the EU from Japan and the United States (each accounting for 23% of imported cars), followed by South Korea (15%), the United Kingdom (14%), Turkey (10%) and China (9%).<\/p>\n

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