Only nine of the European Union’s 27 member states clearly incentivise companies to choose electric vehicles, data published by advocacy organisation Transport & Environment, which is explicitly pro-regulation, has said.<\/p>\n
Company cars account for about 60% of new registrations in the EU and tend to be used twice as much as private vehicles before entering the second-hand market, it said.<\/p>\n
Nine EU countries, including France, the Netherlands, Belgium and Denmark, offer a tax discount that brings the initial price of a compact EV at least level with a comparable petrol car.<\/p>\n
Six countries, including Italy and Finland, have lower tax incentives that cover more than half, but not the entire EV price premium.<\/p>\n
It said 12 countries, including Germany, Poland and Spain, have no effective tax incentives, compensating for less than half of the upfront price gap.<\/p>\n
Out of compact corporate car sales, 68% come from countries where the tax difference is lower than the EV price premium, with 49% from countries with no effective tax incentives.<\/p>\n
Germany and Poland together account for 52% of all oil-intensive corporate car registrations.<\/p>\n
In Germany, a large “E-segment” petrol company car receives a net fiscal advantage of up to 6,190 euros over four years, outweighing the taxes the company paid.<\/p>\n
Belgium’s corporate EV share rose from 8.8% in 2021 to 54.2% in 2025, the EU’s second-highest after Denmark.<\/p>\n
The Netherlands, Finland, Sweden and Austria have high corporate EV shares and have started to scale back tax incentives.<\/p>\n
About 20 million new internal combustion engine cars are expected to be registered by EU companies by 2030.<\/p>\n
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