The Q2 2025 Sophus3 EV Index recorded modest improvements in seven of the eight markets tracked, with Italy remaining flat. The UK and Germany showed some of the strongest progress among the large European markets, while the Nordic markets continued to lead.
Despite those improvements, market outcomes remained weaker than the transition requires. Sophus3 highlighted the second-hand market as an increasingly important problem: used EVs can remain more expensive than comparable combustion-engine vehicles, while buyers no longer benefit from many of the incentives available to new-car purchasers.
At the end of the first half of 2025, European BEV registrations were up 25% year on year and passed one million units for the first time in a half-year period, but the share of new registrations was still only 17.5%.
The index measures consumer interest, affordability and choice, and charging infrastructure.
