1st ICAI 2020

International Conference on Automotive Industry 2020

Mladá Boleslav, Czech Republic

and there is a possibility for businesses and the public sector to obtain subsidies for purchase of electric cars (MŽP, 2018). Room for improvement definitely exists. 3.2 Dependency of Electric Vehicle Market Share on GDP per Capita We have chosen gross domestic product (GDP) per capita as the indicator of the wealth of the countries we have chosen to include in this study.

Figure 3: Real GDP per capita (eur, 2018)

Source: Eurostat To determine the relationship between the market share of electric cars and the wealth of an EU member state, we compare the member state’s GDP per capita to the share of electric vehicles in its new passenger car sales.

Figure 4: Electric Vehicles Market Share (%) and GDP per Capita (Eur) in the EU (2018)

Source: ACEA; Eurostat

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