As of July 1, 2024, there are already more than 200,000 electric cars and hybrids in Ukraine. Since the beginning of the year, their number has increased by 36,400 cars or by 22%.
Note that as of August 1, 2022, there were 100,000 cars with an electric or hybrid engine in Ukraine. That is, in less than 2 years (to be more precise – in 23 months), the number of such cars has doubled!
Among these 200,000 cars, there are 108,200 purely electric cars. and their number is growing very dynamically (+30% since the beginning of the year). That is, almost 25 thousand new and used electric cars were registered in Ukraine in the first 6 months of the current year. It is interesting that for the last 5 months in a row their number exceeds 4 thousand units every month.
At the same time, the number of hybrid cars in our country has already reached 94,400 units. Growth – +14% since the beginning of the year (+11.5 thousand new and used cars).
The most popular brand of electric cars in Ukraine is Nissan, in 2nd place – Tesla, 3rd – Volkswagen. But Tesla electric cars are leading in terms of growth since the beginning of the year. By the way, their total fleet has grown by 40% since the beginning of the year: it was 14.5 thousand units at the beginning of the year, and as of July 1, 2024 – 20.2 thousand.
In turn, the undisputed leaders among hybrid cars are Toyota and Lexus cars, which account for more than half of the number of cars with hybrid technologies. That is, every second hybrid car in Ukraine is a Toyota or Lexus.
As you can see, cars with non-traditional engines continue to gain popularity in Ukraine. For example, electric cars and hybrids already occupy more than a third (35.2%) of the entire new car market according to the results of the first half of this year (a year ago – 33.5% of the market). Among the imports of used cars, such models already occupy 20% of the market (11.9% a year ago).