In 2035, 54.51 percent of the new vehicles registered in Denmark will be electric – up from 7.19 percent in 2020. This shows an analysis of data from the European Environment Agency and Eurostat from Eurostat. Confused.com – a financial company based in the United Kingdom.
Among the European countries, Denmark has taken a fourth place for the expected share of electric cars of all car sales in 2035.
With 54.37 percent in 2020, Norway has almost surpassed Denmark’s 2035 projection. Together with the Netherlands, it is tied for first place on the list – 99.9 percent of the new vehicles registered in these countries by 2035 will be electric.
Sweden has become number three. By 2035, 80.35 percent of new vehicles registered in Sweden will be electric – up from 9.69 percent by 2020.
Sales of electric cars skyrocket in Denmark
Short-term trends are in line with the long-term growth forecasts for the electric car industry.
According to Confused.com, the current energy crisis has led to a 110 percent increase in searches for ‘electric cars’.
And in Denmark, new figures are from Statistics Denmark reveal that sales of electric cars from July 2021 to June 2022 increased by more than 65 percent over the previous year.
The increase is coincident, while a large decrease in sales of petrol and diesel cars is due to rising petrol prices, rising inflation and material shortages.
“The car industry and customers focus much more on electric cars, so it is only natural that sales of ‘green’ cars increase sharply,” says Mads Aarup, spokesman for the electric car association FDEL. BT.
“If we did not have a shortage of components, we would have sold even more.”
The Danish government is trying to keep up
In Denmark, efforts have been made to meet the increasing number of electric cars in the country.
The number of publicly available charging points for electric cars increased by 68 percent to 4,828 from 2020 to 2021.
In March, Copenhagen Airport signed an agreement to establish 1,350 new charging doors for electric cars over the next 10 years.
And in June, the City of Copenhagen decided to add 4,100 charging places for electric cars at the expense of parking for petrol and diesel cars.
However, it has apparently been a struggle to meet the charging demand as a result of the skyrocketing sales of electric cars. A few days ago, a new study from Uswitch – another UK-based price comparison service – ranked Denmark as one of the worst European countries to own an electric vehicle.
Source: The Nordic Page