2024 was a year of setbacks for electric cars, with lagging sales and declining resale values.
Despite that, electric cars are becoming more and more common in our elongated country. From 2023 to 2024, the number of electric cars in Sweden increased from 156,411 to 190,076, according to figures from Kvd car.
As a share of the total car stock, electric cars went from 3.5 to 4.3 percent.
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Here, 1 in 10 drives an electric car
In one municipality, almost 1 in 10 residents now drive an electric car, according to a report from Kvdbil.
The municipality in question is Danderyd, where a whopping 9.6 percent of all cars are now electric cars. Just behind is Vellinge municipality with 9.5 percent, followed by Nacka and Vaxholm with 9.3 and 9.2 percent respectively.
The municipality with the lowest proportion of electric cars is Dorotea, where only 0.1 percent of all cars are electric cars. In second place from the bottom we find Arjeplog with 0.4 percent electric cars, followed by Sorsele and Strömsund with 0.5 and 0.6 percent respectively.
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The county with the most electric cars
Stockholm is unsurprisingly the county with the most electric cars, both in percentage terms and in absolute numbers. In Stockholm, there are 44,338 electric cars, corresponding to 6.2 percent of the car stock.
Stockholm is also the county where the number of electric cars increased the fastest from 2023 to 2024, with an increase of 26.4 percent.
At the other end of the scale we find Värmland County, where only 2.6 percent of the cars, 3,884, are electric cars.
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Municipalities with the highest proportion of electric cars
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County with the highest proportion of electric cars
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