Electric Vehicle Fleet Composition Across 65,300 European Municipalities, 2011–2023

A longitudinal dataset of passenger vehicle fleet composition at the municipality level for 14 European countries from 2011 to 2023. It covers 65,300 municipalities and disaggregates vehicles into battery electric, plug-in hybrid, fuel-cell electric, and other categories. The dataset was created by Yukai Jin using an XGBoost-based spatial downscaling model applied to official IEA statistics.

Use Cases

• Comparative analysis of EV adoption geography based on municipality-level vehicle stocks.
• Tracking fleet electrification rates over time across different European urban systems.
• Analyzing spatial disparities in EV penetration based on features like GDP per capita and nighttime light intensity.

Strengths

• Covers 65,300 municipalities across 14 European countries.
• Provides a 13-year longitudinal view from 2011 to 2023.
• Model validation shows satisfactory spatial accuracy (R² = 0.65–0.95) against sub-national data from Germany, Norway, and Sweden.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to the 14 included European countries.

Provenance

Source

Official IEA statistics.

Collection Method

Spatial downscaling model (XGBoost) applied to national statistics using municipality-level GDP per capita, population, and nighttime light intensity.

Time Range

2011–2023

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-11 13:52:06; freshness should be verified.

Geography

14 European countries, 65,300 municipalities.