Overview
- Spain registered about 225,000 battery-electric and plug-in hybrid cars in 2025, accounting for 37% of the historical plug-in fleet, according to a Bipi analysis of DGT data.
- The national stock now exceeds 600,000 plug-in vehicles, with the analysis projecting a push toward roughly 700,000 in the opening months of 2026.
- Despite rapid growth, penetration remains low: 420,811 plug-ins at end-2024 equaled 1.66% of a 25.24 million-car fleet, underscoring an early-stage transition.
- Adoption is highly uneven, with Madrid holding 42% of Spain’s plug-in cars, followed by Catalonia (15.3%) and Valencia (8.5%), while Ceuta, Melilla, La Rioja, Extremadura and Cantabria trail.
- Norway offers a contrast, with 2025 sales reaching 95.9% battery-electric—or 97.5% including plug-in hybrids—figures widely linked to sustained fiscal incentives and penalties on combustion models.