In 11 months of 2022, 11,700 electric cars were imported into Ukraine – 28% more than in the corresponding period last year (9,130 ​​units), OpenDataBot reports with reference to official statistics.

Demand for electric vehicles in Ukraine continues to grow steadily, despite the energy crisis caused by massive Russian shelling of critical infrastructure in various regions. By the way, during today’s attack, the Russians damaged about 9 generation facilities, which caused an emergency in the power system (this is a purely legal mechanism that has nothing to do with limiting energy supply to the population) — Ukrenergo reported a loss of more than 50% of energy system consumption. One of the factors is that many people use electric cars as backup power sources for private homes. By the way, Nissan Leafs are UL 9741 certified and can be used as backup power systems.

The Nissan Leaf electric car can now be used for home backup power

If you look at the OpenDataBot analysis, you can highlight several interesting facts. For example, last year, on average, 830 electric cars were imported into Ukraine per month. And if in the first month of the invasion of Russia, the number of imported cars decreased to 195 electric cars per month, then already in April it doubled and has been gradually increasing since then. The largest increase was recorded in August – then the number of electric cars per month increased more than 2 times, to 1540 electric cars.

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FINANCIAL ANALYSIS

The most popular electric car among Ukrainians remains the Nissan Leaf — 2,154 such cars were imported this year, which is 18% of all imported electric cars for the period. The second position was unexpectedly taken by Volkswagen ID.4 – 1142 cars. This is 10% of the total number of electric cars. At the same time, Tesla Model 3 lost one position (you will know Ilona Musk how to ban Ukrainians on Twitter) and closes the top three most popular electric cars in Ukraine. In 2022, Ukrainians imported 784 Tesla Model 3s, which is almost 7% of the total number of imported electric cars.

In general, Ukrainians quite actively switched to electric cars even before the start of a full-scale war (in Ukraine, electric cars are exempt from VAT and import duty at least until the end of 2025), and the fuel crisis and the subsequent rise in prices in the spring led to a rapid increase in demand for electric models. There are already more than 100,000 electrified cars in Ukraine (including “hybrids”). Over six years, Ukrainians purchased about 34,000 battery electric vehicles (BEVs). Demand for BEVs continues to grow in the EU as well, where a complete ban on the sale of new fossil-fueled cars from 2035 was recently approved.

The EU has approved a complete ban on the sale of new cars with internal combustion engines from 2035