LeasePlan, a global vehicle leasing company, has analysed several EV-readiness factors to find out which of 22 European markets is best prepared to support and accelerate the electric mobility transition.

The sixth edition of its annual Electric Vehicle (EV) Readiness Index has assessed the maturity of the EV market (including plug-in hybrids), the maturity of EV infrastructure (such as the availability of public charging points and fast chargers) and the total cost of ownership of an EV (taking into account, for example, government incentives and energy prices).

Norway tops the chart again, followed by the Netherlands in second place and the UK in joint third.

Norway, with 89 per cent of new vehicle registrations being EVs, is now phasing out government incentives, but the real change is in the next level, where countries are fast catching up with the leaders, with only four points between third position (jointly held by the UK, Austria, Sweden and Luxembourg) and twelfth (Portugal).

Despite, or possibly because of, their relative size, Germany and France only make joint tenth place.

Although much of the report is good news, charging infrastructure remains the biggest bottleneck holding back the EV transition. While some countries – France, Denmark, Slovakia and Spain – made notable improvements in 2022, this category once again received the lowest scores in the Readiness Index.

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