Germany still cannot get the mobility transition off the ground: Only 13.5 percent of newly registered cars in 2024 were pure EVs – in addition, the proportion of plug-in hybrids was 6.8 percent. Last year, only around 380,000 EVs were newly registered, 27.5 percent fewer than the year before. As the overall market also slowed down, the proportion of new EV registrations is „more or less stalling“ – and has been since 2022, writes Wolf-Peter Schill, Head of the „Transformation of the Energy Industry“ research department at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) on Bluesky.