Germany Wants 8 Million EVs on Its Roads by 2030

Germany expects to have close to eight million electric vehicles on its roads by 2030. The projection is built from sales forecasts submitted by the country’s major automakers. The estimate was produced by NOW GmbH, a government-affiliated body working with the transport ministry. 

Reaching that figure would require the battery-electric fleet to roughly quadruple from its current size within five years. The forecast also includes around 2.4 million plug-in hybrid vehicles, bringing the total electrified fleet to over ten million. 

Fewer than 35,000 electric cars were registered in Germany in 2017 but by early 2026, the total had climbed past two million, with the fastest growth concentrated in the most recent years. The one-million threshold was crossed in 2023 and the second million arrived far more quickly. An additional six million battery-electric vehicles are expected to join the fleet before the decade ends, according to the NOW GmbH forecast. 

Hitting that target implies sustained annual growth in battery-electric sales of roughly a quarter each year through 2030. In that final year alone, NOW GmbH forecasts around 1.8 million new fully electric cars will be sold in Germany, with new plug-in hybrids expected to add a further 200,000 units. 

Together, those figures would push the electric share of annual new car sales to roughly seven in ten. That growth rate, the organization notes, runs ahead of what earlier modeling had assumed. 

Battery storage capacity is projected to expand modestly across most segments and by substantially more at the top of the market. Range improvements are anticipated across the board as the ability to charge at high speed is already available on mainstream and premium models. It is expected to extend to smaller and more affordable vehicles over the coming years. 

Additionally, EVs equipped with vehicle-to-grid technology are projected to become far more prevalent in new registrations by 2030. 

Those projections emerged from a structured consultation process conducted between July and September 2025. Automakers taking part collectively represent the dominant share of both overall and electric vehicle sales in Germany. Working through competition-compliant procedures, NOW GmbH gathered structured sales and product forecasts from each participant. 

The exercise has been repeated at intervals since 2020, and the resulting data feeds directly into national planning for charging infrastructure expansion. Looking further ahead, NOW GmbH anticipates annual battery-electric registrations exceeding two million after 2030. 

That volume is viewed as the entry point for a fully mainstream market. Dagmar Fehler, the organization’s chief executive, describes the process as one that reveals the automotive industry’s collective direction more clearly than any individual announcement. Broader model availability, longer range, and shorter charging times are progressively lowering the barriers to EV ownership, in her assessment. 

Fehler argues this makes mass electric vehicle adoption a matter of ‘when’ rather than ‘if.’ For EV makers like Ferrari N.V. (NYSE: RACE) that aren’t primarily driven by the desire to sell millions of units, the projected growth of the German electric vehicle fleet could reenergize their efforts to attract new buyers who don’t have a history with their legacy brands. 

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