The European BEV+PHEV fleet will represent around 15 million units in 2025
- Inovev has estimated the European vehicle fleet (30 countries = EU + United Kingdom + Switzerland + Norway) of plug-in passenger cars (BEV+PHEV) in 2025 , based on sales of these models over the last ten years (2014-2024) and adding those made during the first half of 2025 (for the sake of simplification, withdrawals from the market of these vehicles have not been taken into account, as they are not significant for the present analysis). According to this calculation, the BEV+PHEV fleet in Europe would represent 15.1 million units out of more than 250 million passenger cars, compared to 31.4 million BEV-PHEVs in China and 6.4 million BEV-PHEVs in the United States. The rest of the world is estimated at around 3 million BEV-PHEV units (including 0.7 million in Japan).
- Germany is well ahead of all other European countries, with 3.7 million BEV+PHEVs, ahead of the United Kingdom (2.3 million units), France (2.1 million units) and Norway (1 million units). These four leading countries in alternative plug-in powertrains represent 61% of the BEV+PHEV fleet in Europe by June 30, 2025. Sweden (0.9 million) and the Netherlands (0.85 million) are the next two countries, adding 12% to the 61% just mentioned, which means that six countries alone represent three-quarters of the European BEV+PHEV fleet.
- In other words, 24 countries represent only a quarter of the European BEV+PHEV fleet , which should worry the politicians who implemented the directive concerning the objective of 100% plug-in cars sold in Europe by 2035. In total, BEV+PHEVs do not yet reach 7% of the European passenger car fleet and 25.5% of the European market in the first half of 2025 (including 17% BEVs and 8.5% PHEVs, i.e. twice as many BEVs as PHEVs). Out of a European fleet of 15.1 million BEV+PHEVs, the number of BEVs is estimated at 9.35 million units and the number of PHEVs at 5.75 million units.