Bulgaria had EU’s lowest share of hybrid and electric passenger cars in new registrations in 2023

Bulgaria had the lowest share in the European Union of hybrid and electric passenger cars in new registrations in 2023, at seven per cent, EU statistics agency Eurostat said on December 13. Bulgaria was followed by Czechia (20 per cent) and Croatia (28 per cent). In nine EU countries the share of hybrid and electric passenger cars in new registrations exceeded 50 per cent in 2023, Eurostat said.

The highest shares were reported in Finland (78 per cent), with 44 per cent hybrid and 34 per cent electric, Sweden (69 per cent), with 30 per cent hybrid and 39 per cent electric, and the Netherlands (68 per cent), with 37 per cent hybrid and 31 per cent electric. In 2023, 10.7 million new passenger cars were registered in the EU.



Among them, the pure petrol cars had the highest share (34.5 per cent), followed by non-plug-in hybrid petrol-electric cars (21.1 per cent), battery-only electric cars (14.

5 per cent) and pure diesel cars (14.3 per cent). After the rapid growth in battery-only electric car registrations between 2013 and 2023, the combined share of all hybrid and battery-only electric vehicles in 2023 matched that of pure petrol and pure diesel cars (48.

3 per cent vs. 48.8 per cent), Eurostat said.

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