EVwire brief: Battery electric vehicles (BEVs) made up 19% of all passenger cars produced in the European Union in 2025, according to a new report from the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT). That means nearly every fifth car rolling off an EU assembly line is now fully electric.
The ICCT published the report's key findings on LinkedIn, highlighting how the EU's electric vehicle production landscape has shifted since 2019.
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The report includes several charts worth digging into. Here are some highlights.
EU passenger car production by powertrain, 2019 to 2025. (Source: ICCT)
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The big-picture shift is striking. In 2019, battery electric cars made up just 1% of EU passenger car production. By 2025, that share had reached 19%, even though total EU production remained well below its 2019 level. After plunging to 10.2 million vehicles in 2021, EU production recovered to around 11 million in 2025. The BEV share jumped from 14% in both 2023 and 2024 to 19% in 2025, the largest single-year gain yet.
BEV production volumes by EU member state, 2019 to 2025. (Source: ICCT)
Country by country, the growth curves tell a striking story.
Germany's EV production has increased steadily, with year-on-year growth largely underpinned by BEVs. Well over a million BEVs were produced in 2025, thanks in part to facilities like Tesla's Giga Berlin.
Czechia went from no BEV production ni 2019 to roughly 200,000 in 2025, while France ramped steadily to more than 220,000 BEVs last year.
Belgium and Slovakia also expanded BEV production from relatively small starting volumes. Sweden, however, is still not producing battery electric vehicles as of 2025.
BEV share of total passenger car production by EU member state, 2019 to 2025. (Source: ICCT)
The BEV share picture makes the trend even clearer.
Germany produced 30% BEVs across roughly 4.1 million cars, the highest BEV share among the major EU producers. It accounted for 37% of all EU passenger cars and 56% of the bloc's total EV production.
France produced more than 200,000 battery electric cars in 2025. BEVs accounted for 22% of its total car production.
Czechia hit 16% despite being primarily known as an ICE hub.
Spain is the outlier. As the EU's second-largest car producer (roughly 1.7 million vehicles), its BEV share was just 6%. That is set to change, as Volkswagen Group has confirmed it will launch four BEV models across its Martorell and Navarra plants, including the CUPRA Raval and Volkswagen ID. Polo.
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The trend is becoming hard to miss on the demand side too. According to ACEA, BEVs accounted for 20.7% of all new EU car registrations in the first half of 2026, up 40.5% year over year. For comparison, in H1 2025, 869,271 BEVs were registered across the EU, giving battery electrics a 15.6% market share. One year later, that figure jumped to 1,220,890 units and 20.7%. That is a 40.5% increase in volume and a five-percentage-point gain in share in just 12 months.
Here’s the ICCT’s full report:
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