There is a valuable addition to today’s news about the agreement by the EU countries to ban the sale of new fossil fuel cars from 2035 – Eurostat released the statistics of officially registered battery-powered passenger electric vehicles (BEV). It follows from the report that back in 2020, the number of electric vehicles in the EU countries for the first time exceeded one million units.
For 7 years – from 2013 to 2020 – the number of electric vehicles in the EU has increased by 20 times. And this, of course, is an amazing growth rate.
The highest growth rates were recorded in 2019-2020 and 2018-2019 – then the increase was 83% and 64%, respectively. In 2020, the share in the total number of passenger cars increased from 0.02% to 0.4%.
It can be recalled that the Ukrainian fleet of electric vehicles as of June 1, 2022 consisted of 36,602 units, most of all they were registered in Kiev – 7801. This is followed by Odessa region (4550), Kharkiv region (3403) and Dnipro (3225).
As of 2020, the share of pure electric vehicles has increased from 0.02% to 0.4% of total light vehicles. At the same time, the number of cars in the EU has also grown steadily during these seven years, reaching 250 million in 2020.
The highest level of car ownership is in Luxembourg, which has been a constant leader in the ranking for at least 30 years. In 2020, there were 682 cars per thousand people. This includes cross-border workers (non-urban residents) using company vehicles registered in the country. Luxembourg is followed by Italy (670), Poland (664) and Finland (652). The lowest place in the ranking of car ownership was occupied by Romania with 379 cars per thousand population. Somewhat higher are Latvia (390), Hungary (403) and Bulgaria (414). For comparison, by the beginning of 2021, the level of motorization in Kiev for the first time exceeded 400 cars per thousand inhabitants. It should also be borne in mind that not everyone who owns a car necessarily uses it constantly. That is, car ownership and car use are different concepts.
