Deloitte EV Index

Key findings EU vs China 2026

The EV Index 2026 shows clear progress across European markets, underlining that the EU continues to close the gap to China in key dimensions of BEV readiness. Improvements in vehicle technology, expanding model ranges, and a steadily growing charging infrastructure have strengthened market fundamentals and increased overall competitiveness.

While China remains ahead – particularly due to lower costs and a highly developed charging ecosystem – Europe’s trajectory is increasingly positive. The narrowing price gap between BEVs and ICE vehicles, combined with rising average vehicle ranges and infrastructure expansion, signals that structural barriers are gradually being reduced. As supply‑side conditions continue to improve, Europe is well positioned to further accelerate BEV adoption, provided that growing market readiness translates into stronger consumer demand.

Deep Dive: Germany

A closer look at the German market shows signs that the BEV market situation starts to shift and will continue to improve in the upcoming months, due to greater variety of BEV vehicles with greater range and an improving landscape situation. We look at the analysed dimensions and provide insights on the drivers, challenges, and overall developments for each:

• Demand: In Germany 28 percent of consumers consider a new energy vehicle as their next car, which represents a slight improvement from last year’s 27 percent. Major concerns are still related to charging infrastructure, which even increased from 66 percent in 2024 to 68 percent in 2025. But the consumers expectations of higher prices decreased to 39 percent in 2025.

• Supply: The availability of BEVs is significantly lower than that of ICE vehicles in almost all segments, but it is improving compared to 2024. Also the price difference is improving especially for the upper segments D and E, but is still significant for the volume vehicle segments B and C. Mass adoption will only be feasible if segments A-C are better served and overcome current limitations in availability and price sensitivity.

• Landscape: The number of charging points per 1,000 active BEV and PHEV vehicles has slightly increased from 56 in 2024 to 60, although it remains lower than in other European countries, which impacts the convenience of owning a BEV. Home charging costs about two-thirds of the average ICE fuel costs even without taking into consideration the increasing fuel costs since the beginning of this year.

BEV slowly picking up pace also in Germany

While BEVs offer a promising path to sustainable transportation, challenges remain in terms of demand, supply, and infrastructure. But supply is improving continuously especially this year with various new BEV models reaching the market. The shift in market demand will accelerate this year due to increased operational costs for ICE vehicles, especially regarding increasing fuel costs.

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Methodology

The BEV index consists of three dimensions: Demand, Supply and Landscape, which all reflect different views on the BEV market. 

• Demand: Demand reflects how willing consumers are to adopt BEVs, based on purchase intent, charging-related concerns, price expectations, and range confidence.¹
• Supply: Supply assesses how competitive the BEV offering is within a market by comparing model availability, pricing, and vehicle range against ICE alternatives.²
• Landscape:  Landscape captures the broader market environment for BEVs through key external factors such as depreciation, running energy costs, and charging infrastructure availability.³