It’s hard to get European-wide numbers for electric car sales. In fact, it’s hard to get numbers for almost any country in Europe. A Norwegian electric vehicle association was publishing Norway’s numbers regularly for awhile, as was a German car association for Germany, but neither of them have done so in recent months. Thankfully, I am able to obtain France’s monthly electric car and plug-in hybrid electric car sales numbers from Avere France. Avere France, using data from AAA, also recently shared numbers for Europe as a whole. Here are the numbers for the top European countries
In the first half of 2014, electric car sales were up 77% in Europe. The big driver of that growth (no pun intended) was Norway, which saw its sales increase 302% compared to the first half of 2013. France, in the #2 position, actual saw a small decrease in sales — though, its sales have picked up again in the past couple of months. Like Norway but not to such a strong extent, Germany, the UK, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Sweden all saw strong increases in electric car sales. Italy saw a slight increase.
As far as the top electric cars, they were the Nissan Leaf (7,109), Tesla Model S (5,330), and Renault Zoe (3,669). Tesla Model S sales were largely in Norway (over 3,000 there), while Renault Zoe sales were largely in France (over 1,600 there).
Here’s a table of the data, followed by static versions of the charts above.
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| Country | 2013 | 2014 | YOY Growth | 2013 Market Share | 2014 Market Share |
| Norway | 2373 | 9550 | 302% | 15% | 34% |
| France | 7293 | 6405 | -12% | 47% | 23% |
| Germany | 2382 | 4230 | 78% | 15% | 15% |
| UK | 1168 | 2570 | 120% | 7% | 9% |
| Netherlands | 437 | 1149 | 163% | 3% | 4% |
| Switzerland | 445 | 867 | 95% | 3% | 3% |
| Austria | 252 | 709 | 181% | 2% | 3% |
| Italy | 494 | 648 | 31% | 3% | 2% |
| Belgium | 195 | 629 | 223% | 1% | 2% |
| Denmark | 254 | 604 | 138% | 2% | 2% |
| Sweden | 298 | 585 | 96% | 2% | 2% |
| TOTAL | 15591 | 27946 | 79% | ||
Hi there, for European sales numbers please see http://ev-sales.blogspot.co.at/
You find that helpful. 😉
I used to use those numbers. And then I used to collected them for European countries myself, and I found out that there are a lot of wild estimates used there, as well as simple errors, so I have primarily stopped using it as a source.
I do still use it for overall reports here and there, but heavily introduce the caveats.
When is it possible, to have the data related at the sales of the second half 2014 divided by european countries?