Electric vehicle registrations were down last year in Europe. Tesla, the largest solo player in the EV game, took a hard hit. The American automaker’s registration numbers fell by over 10%. There’s no getting around the fact that electric vehicle registrations went down last year in Europe. Depending on how many countries you take into consideration, EV registrations dipped between 1.3% and 5.9% in 2024 compared to 2023. That’s a stark difference to the United States and China, where EV sales were on the rise last year, so what’s going on in Europe? Let’s look at the numbers and try to figure out what happened. According to the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA), customers in the European Union registered 1,447,934 EVs last year, down 5.9% compared to 2023’s 1,538,106 cars.
