In May of this year, 2,148 light passenger electric vehicles were registered, of which 980 were pure electric vehicles and 1,168 were plug-in hybrid vehicles. This is 58.3 percent more than in the same month a year ago, when 1,357 such electric vehicles were registered. In April, 2,393 electric vehicles of this type were registered.
This is 58.3 percent more than in the same month a year ago.
Also in May, 62 light commercial electric vehicles were registered, compared to 17 registered in the same month a year ago, and 29 light commercial electric vehicles registered in April this year.
As of June 1, 2026, the Lithuanian road transport vehicle fleet register contained a total of 52,519 light passenger cars (M1 category), of which 26,979 were pure electric vehicles and 25,540 were plug-in hybrids. The register also includes 1,080 light commercial electric vehicles (N1 category), of which 1,035 are pure electric vehicles and 45 are plug-in hybrids.
A year ago, on June 1, 2025, the Lithuanian road transport vehicle fleet register contained a total of 34,286 light electric vehicles (33,692 – M1 category and 594 – N1 category).
Currently, electric vehicles account for 2.81 percent of the total light passenger car fleet in the country, while pure electric vehicles alone account for 1.44 percent. In the light commercial vehicle fleet, electric cars make up 1.28 percent.
As of June 1, hybrid vehicles accounted for 6.8 percent of the total light passenger car fleet (126,022 vehicles), gasoline vehicles – 22.2 percent (415,315 vehicles), and diesel vehicles – 62.6 percent of the total fleet (1,170,023 vehicles).
Although 9,164 new diesel cars were registered during the month, accounting for 45.5 percent of all new registrations (10,487 in April, 9,038 in May a year ago), their number in the fleet increased by only 2,422 vehicles in May. In May, the number of hybrid vehicles in our country’s light passenger car fleet increased the most – by 3,391 vehicles.
New cars accounted for 23.4 percent of all light passenger vehicles registered in Lithuania during May. And new electric cars accounted for 17.2 percent of the new car sales market – 830 of them were registered (898 in April, 543 in May a year ago).
In May, 52 new light commercial electric vehicles were sold (49 pure electric vehicles and 3 plug-in hybrids), accounting for 13.3 percent of the new vehicle market in this category (17 in April 2026, 13 in May a year ago).
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1,318 used light passenger electric cars were registered in May – they accounted for 8.4 percent of this market (814, or 5.8 percent, in May last year). In addition, 10 used light commercial electric cars were sold and registered during the month (1.1 percent of this market; last year there were 4, or 0.5 percent).
In our country, 8,794 used diesel cars were registered in May – this accounted for 55.8 percent of all used light cars registered during the month. Also, 3,711 used gasoline light cars were registered.
