More than one in three new passenger cars registered in Malta in 2025 were fully electric, putting the country well above the European Union average.
New Eurostat data shows that 2,455 battery-only electric passenger cars were registered in Malta during 2025, accounting for 37.6% of the 6,537 new passenger cars registered during the year.
Across the EU, battery-only electric cars accounted for around 17.3% of new passenger car registrations, with 1.89 million registered during 2025. That means Malta’s share was more than twice the EU-wide figure.
Malta Among The EU’s Highest Shares
Malta’s 37.6% share was also one of the highest recorded in the EU. Eurostat’s figures show that Denmark reached 67.8% for alternative-fuel cars in 2025 and the Netherlands 40.6%, followed by Malta at 37.6%. Almost all of Malta’s alternative-fuel registrations were battery-only electric cars.
The figures also show a slight change from 2024, when battery-only electric cars represented 37.7% of Malta’s new passenger car registrations. Malta had the second-highest battery-only electric share in the EU that year, behind Denmark.
Hybrids Accounted For Around 30%
Hybrid cars also represented a sizeable part of Malta’s new registrations in 2025.
Eurostat recorded 1,546 non-plug-in petrol hybrids and 413 plug-in petrol hybrids, alongside five diesel hybrids. Together, the 1,964 hybrid passenger cars accounted for approximately 30.0% of Malta’s new registrations.
Pure petrol and pure diesel cars, excluding hybrids, accounted for approximately 32.4% combined.
At EU level, hybrids represented approximately 42.4% of new passenger car registrations, while pure petrol and diesel cars together accounted for about 37.0%.
Electric Cars Are Still A Small Part Of Malta’s Entire Vehicle Fleet
The new-registration figures tell a different story from Malta’s existing vehicle fleet.
National Statistics Office figures show that Malta had 457,403 licensed motor vehicles at the end of 2025. Petrol vehicles still represented 57.9% of the total and diesel vehicles another 34.0%. Electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles together accounted for 4.9% of the entire licensed vehicle stock.
This means the shift towards electric cars is much more visible among newly registered passenger cars than across all vehicles currently on Malta’s roads.
Across the EU, battery-only electric registrations rebounded strongly in 2025, rising by 29.7% compared with 2024 to reach 1.89 million new cars.
Source: Eurostat and Malta’s National Statistics Office
