2024 is a pivotal year in new passenger car sales in the Netherlands. For the first time, new sales of vehicles with an electric drive train outperform new sales of vehicles with an internal combustion engine. 77%, more than 3 out of 4, of all new registered passenger cars in

In 2023, 69% of all new registered passenger cars in the Netherlands carried an internal combustion engine, in most cases combined with some form of electric engine (either mild hybrid, full hybrid or plug-in hybrid). At the same time, 68% of the registered cars carried an electric engine (Figure 1).