Electric car share by country in 2025: the league table

In 2025 battery-electric cars took 95.9% of new-car sales in Norway, close to a quarter in the UK and under 8% in the United States. China, counting plug-in hybrids as well, passed half of all retail sales for the full year. Here is the 2025 table, with every figure linked to the body or report it comes from.

Battery-electric share of new passenger-car sales, full year 2025

Market	BEV share	Source
Norway	95.9%	ACEA, 27 January 2026
Denmark	68.5%	ACEA, 27 January 2026
Netherlands	40.2%	ACEA, 27 January 2026
Sweden	36.5%	ACEA, 27 January 2026
United Kingdom	23.4% (473,348 cars)	SMMT
France	20.0%	ACEA, 27 January 2026
Germany	19.1% (545,142 cars)	KBA
Ireland	18.89%	SIMI, 2 January 2026
China, BEV only	about 33% of retail (AutoNergy's calculation)	CPCA via CnEVPost
China, all NEV (BEV, PHEV, EREV)	53.96% of retail	CPCA via CnEVPost
United States	7.8% (estimate)	Cox Automotive
India	3.95% (electric passenger vehicles, retail)	FADA, reported by Business Today
Japan	1.3% (first half of 2025)	JATO

European shares are AutoNergy's calculation from the battery-electric and total registrations in ACEA's December 2025 release. Definitions differ: China's NEV figure includes plug-in hybrids and range extenders, India's figure counts electric passenger vehicles in retail registrations, and the US figure is an industry estimate because no national body publishes monthly registrations.

Four groups of markets

Near-complete transition (Norway): almost every new car sold is battery-electric, after years of tax policy that favoured electric cars.

Established adopters (Denmark, the Netherlands, Sweden, the UK, France, Germany, Ireland) sit between about 19% and 69%. Subsidy policy, company-car taxation and charger density explain most of the spread.

China sits in a category of its own: counting plug-in hybrids and range extenders, new-energy vehicles were the majority of retail sales across 2025.

Lagging large markets (the USA at 7.8%, India at about 4%, Japan at about 1%) share lower fuel prices relative to electric ownership costs, thinner charging outside cities, and buyer preferences (full-size pickups in the US, kei cars and hybrids in Japan, small budget cars in India) that electrified later.

What has happened since

This table covers 2025. For 2026 figures, see the monthly releases on AutoNergy: Germany August 2026, UK August 2026, Ireland August 2026 and China August 2026, and the live Global dashboard.

Source & methodology

Each figure above links to the release or report it comes from. Figures are compiled from publications by national industry bodies, statistics offices and the named analysts; check the source before relying on them. The datasets catalog lists each country's source and update cadence.