Italy's Electric Car Share Rises to 12.6% in 2025 as Market Stays Policy-Driven
Italy registered about 193,000 electric cars in 2025, taking their share of new registrations to 12.6%, some five percentage points above 2024, according to the Smart Mobility Report by Energy&Strategy at the Politecnico di Milano. The share remains less than half the European average of 26.8%, and the national target of 6.6 million electric cars by 2030 looks out of reach at the current pace.
Registrations rebound after a weak 2024
Italy registered roughly 193,000 electric cars in 2025, lifting their share of the national new-car market to 12.6%, about five percentage points more than in 2024. The figures come from the tenth edition of the Smart Mobility Report, compiled by the Energy&Strategy group at the Politecnico di Milano School of Management and reported by Il Sole 24 Ore. Of the total, 98,000 were battery electric vehicles and 95,000 were plug-in hybrids.
The recovery followed a year the report describes as one to forget, with the turnaround already visible in the first half of 2025. Italy nevertheless remains far behind the continental average: across Europe, including the United Kingdom and the EFTA countries, electric cars took 26.8% of the market in 2025, up from 22.7% in 2024, on about 3.9 million registrations — 2.6 million battery electric and 1.3 million plug-in hybrid. The Italian share is less than half the European figure.
Charging network grows as installation bonus starts
Public charging infrastructure kept expanding on both sides of that comparison. Europe ended 2025 with about 1.3 million public charging points, 23% more than a year earlier, while Italy had 77,000, up 17%. Fast chargers grew more quickly than the overall total.
A new Italian bonus for the installation of charging points took effect on Tuesday, 22 September, and the report's authors expect it to give the build-out an additional push. Vehicle supply has widened as well: 183 battery electric models were available in June 2026, 49% more than a year earlier, although they remain concentrated in the medium and upper price segments. The market's acceleration coincided with the entry into force of the latest car emission limits set by Regulation (EU) 2019/631.
Corporate fleets account for almost half the market
Company fleets represent 46% of electric registrations in Italy and cover three times the average annual mileage of other vehicles, which makes them the main channel for volume and, within a few years, the main source of used electric cars at lower prices. A survey of 219 companies carried out by Energy&Strategy nonetheless points to limited electrification relative to the European legislative proposal, which from 2030 would require large Italian companies to reach a 69% share of zero- and low-emission cars in new registrations, including 45% zero-emission.
- 37% of large companies have not registered a single zero-emission car;
- only 14% are already in line with the European ambitions;
- electric cars make up 25% of the fleets analysed, while 44% of companies registered no battery electric vehicle in 2025;
- 79% of those using them would put them back in the fleet and 60% report economic benefits.
Purchase incentives and tax levers remain the most widely used instruments to speed up fleet electrification.
National 2030 target out of reach at current pace
Italian legislation is the other driver. The National Integrated Energy and Climate Plan sets a target of 6.6 million electric cars by 2030; the report calculates that at the current rate the country would reach only 3.1 million by the end of the decade.
“The data clearly show that the market is still quite policy-driven,” said Vittorio Chiesa, director of Energy&Strategy and head of the report, quoted by Il Sole 24 Ore, pointing to “an evident link between registrations and the course of regulation”. He argued that “stability, clarity and multi-year support mechanisms” are needed to underpin operators' investments, while “the simultaneous revision of numerous measures and the uncertainty over the outcome of legislative proposals reduce the predictability of the regulatory framework”.
For manufacturers, importers and charging operators, the combination of figures frames the rest of the decade: demand that reacts quickly to incentives and emission rules, an offer still weighted towards higher price brackets, and a national target that the current trajectory misses by more than half.