Electric vehicles are still relatively rare in the Czech Republic, but this is likely to change soon

Sunday, May 12, 2024

Denik Referendum

Czech EV adoption is low; subsidies and market trends differ from neighbors like Romania and Sweden.

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The Dacia Spring is currently the cheapest personal electric car in the region, priced around 470,000 Czech koruna in the Czech Republic. Electric vehicles constitute a very small fraction of registered passenger cars in the Czech Republic, with about 25,000 EVs out of 6.4 million total cars. The adoption has increased significantly from 703 new electric cars in 2018 to 6,700 last year, a nine-fold increase, though other countries like Romania and Poland have seen even larger increases. Observers attribute differences partly to subsidies; for example, in Romania, a subsidy reduced the price of an EV by ten thousand euros. While the Czech Republic introduced an EU funding program this March, it is currently only available to businesses, although personal vehicle subsidies could reach 200,000 koruna. Relatively speaking, Sweden, Finland, and Denmark show the highest interest in EVs per capita, with electric cars making up a third of new sales there last year. Germany and France sell the most EVs absolutely within the EU, while Austria registered over 47,000 new EVs last year, significantly more than the Czech Republic’s previous year’s increase.

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