MAKING THE TRANSITION TO ZERO-EMISSION MOBILITY Enabling factors for alternatively-powered cars and vans in the European Union2 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Most ?gures are for the full year 2021 and chart progress over the past ?ve years (as compared with full year 2017). 1. MARKET UPTAKE ALTERNATIVELY-POWERED CARS AND VANS ? Electrically-chargeable car sales – battery electric and plug-in hybrids combined – account for 18% of all new car sales in the EU. ? Hybrid vehicles made up almost 20% of total EU passenger car registrations in 2021. ? Fuel cell and natural gas-powered cars still only account for a small share of EU sales (0.01% and 0.4% respectively). ? Conventional fuel types – petrol and diesel – still dominated EU car sales in terms of market share (60%) in 2021. ? Almost 3% of all vans sold in 2021 were battery electric, less than 2% were hybrid electric, and 0.1% were plug-in hybrids. ? 90% of all new light commercial vehicles registered in the EU ran on diesel last year, with petrol accounting for almost 4% of the market. 2. AFFORDABILITY ? The market uptake of electrically-chargeable vehicles is largely linked to a country’s GDP per capita, showing that affordabi