Denmark registered 14,562 new passenger cars in July, up 5.5 percent from the 13,806 registered in the same month last year. That keeps the year to date total climbing too, with 115,580 new cars now on Danish roads since January, an increase of 11.9 percent compared to the same period in 2025.
Denmark EV market share climbs to 80 percent
The headline number sits within those figures, though. Of July’s new passenger cars, 11,672 were fully electric, putting the EV share of total new registrations at 80.2 percent, up 25.8 percent from the 9,282 electric cars registered in July 2025. Among private buyers specifically, the electric share climbed even higher, to 97 percent.
Mads Rørvig, managing director of Mobility Denmark, pointed to that 97 percent figure as clear evidence of how far the electrification of the Danish car market has come, crediting the reduced registration tax for making electric cars an economically attractive choice and, in turn, helping Denmark move closer to its climate targets.
Denmark on track for 1 million EVs by 2027
Mobility Denmark now expects the country to reach one million electric cars on its roads as early as 2027, roughly one in every three passenger cars nationwide. Rørvig described the milestone as a genuinely significant green marker for Denmark, one that would meaningfully move the needle on CO2 emissions and bring the country a substantial step closer to meeting its climate goals once a third of the passenger fleet runs on electricity.
Electric car registration tax in Denmark faces a political test this autumn
That momentum comes with a caveat, though. The reduced registration tax currently applied to electric cars is scheduled to be phased out after the new year, a change that would make most of the country’s most popular EV models noticeably more expensive over time and risks slowing the very trend driving Denmark’s green transition in the car market. When the Danish parliament returns from its summer break, car taxation is expected to become a central political issue, with an expert group on vehicle taxation set to present proposals that include scrapping the EV registration tax altogether.
