Interactive map – Electric vehicle purchase incentives per country in Europe (2019 update)

Key observations

• Purchase incentives for electrically-chargeable vehicles (ECVs), and especially their monetary value, differ greatly across the European Union.
• Only 12 EU countries offer such bonus payments or premiums to buyers of ECVs.
  
• The majority of EU member states only grant tax reductions or exemptions (related to acquisition and ownership) for electrically-chargeable vehicles. A comprehensive overview of these fiscal measures can be found here.
• Some merely offer an exemption from the annual circulation tax for electric vehicles.
  
• Four member states still do not offer any tax benefits or incentives for ECVs at all.
• These four countries all have very low market shares of ECVs (ie less than 1%):
  • Croatia (N/A);
  • Estonia (0.5%);
  • Lithuania (0.4%);
  • Poland (0.2%).

Note: 2019 data, covering passenger cars