Abstract:

This study presents how BEV and PHEV registration shares vary between urban, intermediate, and rural regions, and across the federal states of Germany. It further analyses how the BEV and PHEV registration shares correlate with a selection of variables, such as average tax revenue of the regions’ municipalities, average private household income, or number of public chargers. Of the 392,500 newly registered BEVs and PHEVs in Germany in 2020, almost half were recorded in urban regions (48%), followed by intermediate regions (40%) and rural regions (11%). In urban and rural regions, new BEV and PHEV registrations accounted for 13% of new passenger car registrations in 2020, while the share in intermediate regions was 14%.