Plug-in electric vehicles in Europe sales. , a total of 129,246 plug-in electric cars have been registered in Germany since 2010. The country is the largest passenger car market in Europe, however, , ranked as the fifth largest plug-in market in Europe. About 80% of the plug-in cars registered in the country through September 2016 were registered since January 2014. The official German definition of electric vehicles changed at the beginning of 2013, before that, official statistics only registered all-electric vehicles because plug-in hybrids were accounted together with conventional hybrids. As a result, the registrations figures for 2012 and older do not account for total
Plug-in electric vehicles in Europe electric vehicles registered was achieved in April 2016. , the stock of light-duty plug-in electric vehicles registered in Norway totaled more than 200,000 units, including used imports, making Norway the European country with the largest stock of plug-in cars and vans, and the fourth largest in the world. Norway was the top selling plug-in country market in Europe in 2016, surpassing the Netherlands, Europe’s top market in 2015. Registrations achieved a market share of 29.1% of all new passenger cars registered in 2016. Again in 2017, Norway was Europe's top selling plug-in country. The segment market share rose to 39.2%