Cheaper EVs are fuelling Europe’s electric car boom, and the rules behind them are up for revision

Battery-electric sales in the EU reached 1.64 million in the first eight months of 2026, up 45%, with 16 models under EUR 25,000 due on sale by the end of the year. Transport and Environment says the version of the 2035 target proposed by Parliament’s rapporteur would cut sales of those cheap models by nearly three quarters by 2030.

Cheap electric cars are selling in Europe because the rules required them. Battery-electric sales in the EU reached 1.64 million in the first eight months of the year, up 45%. The version of the 2035 target now in front of Parliament would cut sales of the cheapest models by about three quarters by 2030.

That last figure is Transport and Environment’s own modelling, in a report published today. The advocacy group counts 16 models under EUR 25,000 on sale by the end of 2026, twice last year’s number. Sales of...

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