Electric Vehicles in Cyprus: Registrations, Charging, Grants (2026)

Electric Vehicles in Cyprus: Registrations, Charging, Grants (2026)

This guide sets out the published figures on electric vehicles in Cyprus as of 29 October 2026. It draws on the Cyprus Statistical Service (CYSTAT) for registrations and the licensed fleet, on ACEA, Eurostat and the European Alternative Fuels Observatory (EAFO) for new-car shares and international comparisons, on the Electricity Authority of Cyprus (EAC) and a Transport Ministry letter for charging, on the Cyprus laws on CyLaw for building and tax rules, and on the EU Weekly Oil Bulletin for petrol prices. Every figure is given with its source and date.

The main findings are these. CYSTAT counted 7,539 licensed electric vehicles of all categories at the end of 2025, of which 5,244 were passenger cars, equal to 0.8% of licensed passenger cars. Battery-electric cars were 10.07% of the 14,634 new cars registered in 2025 according to ACEA, while CYSTAT’s 4.7% electric share for 2025 refers to all passenger cars registered, new and used. The Transport Ministry reported 384 publicly accessible charging points at 221 stations in a letter dated 7 October 2026, and the fourth round of the purchase grant is listed as closed. The sections below explain these numbers, set out the arithmetic behind a running-cost comparison, and end with a dated table of every headline figure. Registration tables for all fuel types are in the Cyprus car market guide and are not repeated here.

Electric vehicles in Cyprus: definitions and data sources

Three vehicle types recur in the sources. A battery-electric vehicle (BEV) runs only on electricity; the Motor Vehicles and Road Traffic Law 86/1972 defines an electric vehicle as a motor vehicle whose motive power comes exclusively from electrical energy and which is adapted so that it cannot use another fuel. A hybrid-electric vehicle (HEV) combines an engine with a battery that the car charges itself and has no plug. A plug-in hybrid (PHEV) has a larger battery that can be charged from a socket and can also run on fuel. ACEA, EAFO and Eurostat report these types separately. CYSTAT’s tables use only the energy types petrol, diesel, electric, hybrid and other, so plug-in hybrids are inside the CYSTAT hybrid figure.

Eurostat’s passenger-car dataset road_eqs_carpda allows the split. Of the 62,198 licensed hybrid passenger cars at the end of 2025 in the CYSTAT series, Eurostat shows 2,498 as plug-in (2,429 petrol-electric and 69 diesel-electric) and 59,700 as non-plug hybrids (56,896 petrol-electric and 2,804 diesel-electric). The sum of the four categories, 62,198, matches the CYSTAT hybrid total. Eurostat’s 5,244 electric passenger cars match the CYSTAT figure as well, so the two series describe the same licensed fleet.

Two distinctions explain most apparent differences between published numbers. The first is registrations versus fleet. A registration is an entry into the register during a period, a flow; the fleet is the number of vehicles on the register at a date, a stock. The second is the denominator of a share. CYSTAT’s fuel shares in its monthly press releases are shares of all passenger saloon cars registered in the period, whether new or used when registered. ACEA and EAFO shares are shares of new cars only. For 2025 these give different but compatible results: 1,474 new battery-electric cars were 10.07% of the 14,634 new cars in the ACEA table, while CYSTAT’s 4.7% electric share applies to the 40,778 passenger cars of all ages registered in 2025, which implies roughly 1,917 electric cars (4.7% of 40,778), about 440 more than the new-car count. That difference is consistent with used electric cars entering the register.

Registrations of electric vehicles in Cyprus, 2019 to 2025

CYSTAT-DB’s annual table by energy type (table 2230223E) shows registrations of electric vehicles of all categories rising from 274 in 2019 to 2,223 in 2025, an eightfold increase. Registrations were 270 in 2020, 308 in 2021, 739 in 2022, 1,322 in 2023 and 2,220 in 2024, so 2025 was three vehicles above 2024. Summed, electric registrations from 2019 to 2025 come to 7,356. Hybrid registrations, which include plug-in hybrids, rose from 1,835 to 18,368 over the same years, a tenfold increase, and the sum for 2019–2025 is 58,643. The table counts every road motor vehicle category, so electric mopeds, vans and buses are included, and it counts vehicles registered new or used.

Table source: CYSTAT-DB table 2230223E, all vehicle categories, updated 6 May 2026; shares calculated here as electric (or hybrid) divided by all registrations. The shares in this table differ from CYSTAT’s press-release shares because the table covers all vehicle categories, while the press releases give shares of passenger saloon cars.

For new passenger cars, ACEA and EAFO publish battery-electric and plug-in hybrid counts. EAFO’s Cyprus series gives new battery-electric cars of 63 in 2019, 42 in 2020, 80 in 2021, 361 in 2022, 796 in 2023, 1,193 in 2024 and 1,474 in 2025, and new plug-in hybrids of 88, 78, 122, 197, 505, 664 and 773. The ACEA full-year 2025 table agrees for 2024 and 2025: battery-electric 1,474 (up 23.6% from 1,193), plug-in hybrid 773 (up 16.4% from 664), hybrid-electric 6,899 (up 7.2% from 6,438), petrol 5,093 (down 20.3% from 6,394), diesel 395 (up 7.3% from 368) and a total of 14,634 (down 2.8% from 15,057). From 2019 to 2025 the EAFO series adds up to 4,009 new battery-electric and 2,427 new plug-in hybrid cars, or 6,436 plug-in cars in seven years.

Table source: EAFO Cyprus vehicles and fleet page, data last updated 16 October 2026. The 2026 row is a part-year figure. It equals 1,044 divided by 9,326, where 9,326 is the sum of CYSTAT’s monthly new passenger-car registrations for January to August 2026 (1,294, 1,107, 1,214, 1,185, 1,312, 1,133, 1,369 and 712), which indicates that the series runs to August.

Electric vehicles in Cyprus in 2026: month by month to September

CYSTAT’s monthly releases give the electric share of passenger saloon cars registered from the start of the year. The share was 6.9% in January 2026, against 5.6% in January 2025, and then declined as the year progressed: 5.2% for January–February, 4.9% for January–March, 5.2% for January–April, 5.0% for January–May, 4.9% for January–June, 4.6% for January–July, 4.3% for January–August and 4.2% for January–September. The comparable 2025 shares were 5.3%, 4.9%, 4.8%, 4.7%, 4.8%, 4.8%, 4.8% and 4.7% for the same cumulative periods. The most recent release at the date of this guide, covering September, was issued on 9 October 2026.

A falling share does not by itself mean fewer electric cars, because the denominator also grew. CYSTAT’s September release shows passenger saloon cars registered in January–September 2026 at 34,156, against 31,325 a year earlier, an increase of 9.0%. Multiplying each cumulative share by the cumulative passenger-car total gives an approximate count of electric passenger cars registered. For January–September 2026 this is 4.2% of 34,156, about 1,435, and for January–September 2025 it is 4.7% of 31,325, about 1,472. The two are within 3% of each other. Because CYSTAT rounds shares to one decimal place, each implied count carries an uncertainty of roughly plus or minus 17 cars at this scale.

Hybrids moved in the opposite direction in the same releases, reaching 53.0% of passenger-car registrations in January–September 2026 against 44.0% a year earlier, and petrol fell to 34.8% from 42.8%. The full fuel-type series is in the car market guide. Of the 34,156 passenger cars registered in January–September 2026, 10,521 (30.8%) were new and 23,635 (69.2%) used, which is the main reason the CYSTAT electric share is lower than the new-car share published by EAFO.

EAFO also lists the ten most registered battery-electric models in its 2026 series: Kia EV3 (170), BYD Yuan Plus / Atto 3 (140), BYD Seagull / Dolphin Surf (110), BYD Sealion 07 (63), Jeep Avenger (59), Toyota C-HR+ (47), Hyundai Kona (45), Ford Puma (34), Renault 5 / A290 (29) and Dacia Spring (24). These ten models add up to 721 of the 1,044 battery-electric registrations in the series, or 69.1%. The most registered plug-in hybrid in the same data is the BYD Song / Seal U, with 166 of 537. Model counts are as given by EAFO on 16 October 2026 and cover the same part-year as the series above.

The licensed fleet of electric vehicles in Cyprus and EU comparison

The fleet figure that CYSTAT publishes is the number of vehicles that are licensed, meaning they have a current road licence, at the end of the year. For electric vehicles of all categories this was 505 in 2019, 752 in 2020, 1,036 in 2021, 1,828 in 2022, 3,125 in 2023, 5,334 in 2024 and 7,539 in 2025 (CYSTAT-DB table 2230210E, updated 6 May 2026). The 2025 figure is 41.3% above 2024 and 2.4 times the 2023 figure. Passenger cars are 5,244 of the 7,539, or 69.6%; electric mopeds under 50cc are 2,033, or 27.0%. Small vehicle categories make up the remainder.

Table source: CYSTAT-DB table 2230210E. The categories shown do not add to the total because learner and invalid-carriage cars (72 of the 5,244 passenger cars in 2025) and four vehicles in other categories are not listed separately. Licensed electric passenger cars were 0.785% of the 667,841 licensed passenger cars in 2025, and 0.869% of all 867,552 licensed vehicles counting every category. On 5 July 2026 Cyprus Mail quoted the Road Transport Department’s Angelos Sofocleous as counting about 8,200 licensed electric vehicles of all categories.

Eurostat allows a comparison of the passenger-car fleet with other EU countries (dataset road_eqs_carpda, updated 20 October 2026, data for 31 December 2025). Battery-electric cars were 0.79% of the Cyprus fleet, against 2.88% for the EU-27, and plug-in hybrids were 0.37% against 1.89%. Six member states had a lower battery-electric share than Cyprus: Poland (0.44%), Greece (0.49%), Croatia (0.61%), Bulgaria (0.66%), Slovakia (0.68%) and Romania (0.70%). Malta, a comparable island market, stood at 2.92%. On the combined battery-electric and plug-in share, Cyprus was at 1.16% (7,742 of 667,841 cars) and five member states were lower: Croatia (0.86%), Bulgaria (0.87%), Poland (0.87%), Romania (0.92%) and Greece (1.11%). Cyprus Mail reported on 5 July 2026, citing EAFO data through 2025, that Cyprus had the lowest combined battery-electric and plug-in share in the EU at 0.77%; that is EAFO’s share of cars and vans together, a different basis from the Eurostat passenger-car shares used here.

Table source: Eurostat road_eqs_carpda; shares calculated here. EAFO’s own fleet series, which covers passenger cars and vans (categories M1 and N1) on a different basis, gives 3,569 battery-electric and 2,235 plug-in hybrid cars for 2025, and shows alternative-fuelled light-duty vehicles at 0.8% of a light-duty fleet of 780,554 in 2025. The EAFO and CYSTAT series are not interchangeable and are not combined in this guide.

The official fleet target is quoted in reports as 85,000 electric vehicles by 2030. Cyprus Mail attributed it to the National Energy and Climate Plan on 17 March 2025 and to Transport Minister Alexis Vafeades on 5 July 2026, and Politis reported on 16 March 2026 that the minister said the target could be approached within the decade if about 15,000 of the roughly 40,000 vehicles registered each year were electric. The arithmetic on the CYSTAT licensed count is straightforward: 85,000 less 7,539 is 77,461 more vehicles, or an average of 15,492 a year over the five years 2026–2030, compared with 2,223 electric registrations of all categories in 2025. These are arithmetic comparisons, not projections; the sources do not state whether plug-in hybrids count towards the target. Rental fleets are part of the picture: 106 licensed electric rental cars at the end of 2025, a sector linked to the tourist arrivals covered in the Cyprus tourism trends guide.

Public charging for electric vehicles in Cyprus: counts and connector types

Several bodies count public charging infrastructure, and each uses its own definition. The Transport Ministry, in a letter dated 7 October 2026 reported by Cyprus Mail on 23 October 2026, stated that 384 publicly accessible recharging points had been installed in Cyprus at 221 stations. By district, the stations were Nicosia 76, Limassol 57, Paphos 32, Larnaca 29 and Famagusta 27, which add to 221. The EAFO recharging-point series for Cyprus, with a reference date of September 2026 and a page update of 15 September 2026, shows 582 AC points and 45 DC points, 627 in total. The EAC states in its review of activities of 23 July 2026 that its e-charge network comprises 62 charging stations. The figures are shown as each body states them and are not added together.

EAFO classifies public points by the power bands in the EU Alternative Fuels Infrastructure Regulation (AFIR). In its series for Cyprus, AC points with a power of 7.4 kW to 22 kW rose from 46 in 2020 to 299 in 2023, 469 in 2024 and 709 in 2025, then stood at 575 in September 2026. DC points of 50 kW to below 150 kW were 14 in 2023, 25 in 2024, 24 in 2025 and 24 in September 2026, and DC points of 150 kW to below 350 kW were 7, 10, 18 and 16 in those years. The series shows no points of 350 kW or more. EAFO’s quarterly figures show AC points at 715 in the fourth quarter of 2025, 673 in the first quarter of 2026, 701 in the second and 582 in the third, and DC points at 46, 45, 44 and 45.

Table source: EAFO Cyprus infrastructure page, csv series ac_public_recharging_points_afir and dc_public_recharging_points_afir. The total row sums the classes shown. It equals the AC plus DC quarterly series for the fourth quarters of 2023 (306 + 23), 2024 (475 + 37) and 2025 (715 + 46) and for the third quarter of 2026 (582 + 45).

On connectors, the EAC describes its stations as using Mode 3 and Mode 4 charging with two-way communication, with two sockets per station, Type 2, CCS and CHAdeMO connectors listed for each station, up to 22 kW three-phase AC for normal charging and up to 120 kW DC for fast charging, and two vehicles able to charge at once. From 1 June 2026 the EAC e-charge app handles the charging session and payment is made directly by bank card without a subscription, according to the EAC announcement of 8 June 2026 and its review of activities. Politis reported on 8 December 2025, citing the Electromechanical Services, that 134 applications for new stations had been submitted and 106 approved, by district Nicosia 44, Limassol 17, Famagusta 17, Larnaca 15 and Paphos 13, and that 114 agreements covering 321 chargers had been signed under the “Electrification with 1000” scheme. District figures can be read alongside the town pages for Nicosia, Limassol and Paphos and the Southern Cyprus country page.

Charging time follows from energy and power. The table below divides an assumed energy to be added by the power of each charger class, assuming constant power from the charger and from the car. It is an illustration only: real sessions taper as the battery fills, and a car may accept less than the charger offers. At the 16 kWh per 100 km consumption assumed in the cost section, 30 kWh adds about 188 km of driving.

AFIR targets and planned charging expansion for electric vehicles in Cyprus

The Alternative Fuels Infrastructure Regulation, Regulation (EU) 2023/1804, was adopted on 13 September 2023 and has applied since 13 April 2024, according to the European Commission. It has two kinds of target for cars. The fleet-based target requires publicly accessible recharging power of at least 1.3 kW for each registered battery-electric light-duty vehicle and at least 0.8 kW for each registered plug-in hybrid, as set out on the EAFO Cyprus target tracker. The distance-based targets apply along the trans-European transport network (TEN-T). According to the European Parliament Legislative Observatory summary, recharging pools of at least 400 kW must be deployed at least every 60 km on the TEN-T core network by 31 December 2025, rising to 600 kW by 31 December 2027, and by 31 December 2027 pools on at least half of the wider TEN-T road network must offer at least 300 kW with at least one point of at least 150 kW. The summary also states that users should be able to pay by payment card or contactless device without a subscription, that prices should be shown per kWh, per minute or per session, and that a European access point for alternative fuels data is to be set up by 2027.

The fleet-based target can be written as a formula: BEVs multiplied by 1.3 kW plus PHEVs multiplied by 0.8 kW. Applied to EAFO’s 2025 Cyprus fleet of 3,569 battery-electric and 2,235 plug-in hybrid cars, the result is 3,569 × 1.3 = 4,640 kW plus 2,235 × 0.8 = 1,788 kW, a total of 6,428 kW (6.4 MW) of public power. Applied to the CYSTAT and Eurostat fleet of 5,244 BEV and 2,498 PHEV cars at the end of 2025, it gives 6,817 kW plus 1,998 kW, or 8,816 kW. The two results differ because the fleet series differ; the target scales with the fleet whichever series is used. The EAFO target tracker for Cyprus, with fleet data for the first quarter of 2026 and infrastructure data for September 2026, publishes its own attainment calculation.

The Transport Ministry set out expansion plans in the letter reported on 23 October 2026. It plans 94 new fast charging points over the next couple of years at a total cost of €10 million, of which 76 points for light vehicles at 150 kW each and 18 for heavy vehicles, 12 of them at 350 kW and 6 at 200 kW. The plan has 10 recharging areas for light vehicles and 3 for heavy vehicles. Three of the light-vehicle areas are in Nicosia, Larnaca and Limassol and seven are at Alambra, Kofinou, Evrychou, Saittas, Mandria, Polis Chrysochous and Paralimni. The phasing is 16 light-vehicle points in 2026, 48 light-vehicle and 12 heavy-vehicle points (60 in total) in 2027, and the remaining 18 in 2028, which is the difference between the 94 points and the first two years. Appropriations for 2026 and 2027 are in the budget of the Electromechanical Services department. Politis reported on 8 December 2025 that the AFIR-based law envisages fast chargers every 60 km along motorways and that 13 high-power clusters at 11 locations were planned over two years.

The 2028 row is calculated as the difference between the totals; the letter gives the first two years and the overall figures. The EAC reported on 23 July 2026 that it aims to commission a further 25 charging points by the end of 2026, including three 120 kW chargers.

Charging at home and in apartment buildings: what the law says

The rules for charging provision in buildings sit in section 9Δ (“Electromobility”) of the Energy Performance of Buildings Law 142(I)/2006, as consolidated on CyLaw, which lists amendments up to 155(I)/2020. Its subsections distinguish non-residential from residential buildings and new construction from major renovation. For new non-residential buildings and non-residential buildings undergoing major renovation with more than ten parking spaces, at least one recharging point must be installed, together with ducting for electric cables for at least one parking space in five. All non-residential buildings with more than twenty parking spaces had to install at least one recharging point by 1 January 2025. For residential buildings with more than two parking spaces, new or under major renovation, ducting must be installed for every parking space. Where a building is partly residential, the non-residential rules apply to the non-residential part and the residential rule to the residential part.

The same section requires the competent authority to take initiatives that simplify installation of recharging points in new and existing residential and other buildings and to address regulatory obstacles, including permit and approval procedures. The recast Energy Performance of Buildings Directive, Directive (EU) 2024/1275, entered into force on 28 May 2024 with a general transposition deadline of 29 May 2026, and requires recharging points to enable smart charging and, where appropriate, bi-directional charging, according to the European Commission. The CyLaw text above predates the recast directive. Building-permit statistics, which matter here because the exemption depends on the date of the permit application, are covered in the Cyprus real estate market statistics guide.

For apartment buildings, charging from shared parking raises questions of common property. The Immovable Property (Tenure, Registration and Valuation) Law, Cap. 224, Part IIA, as consolidated on CyLaw, treats the common property of a shared building as owned by all unit owners in undivided shares (section 38ΣΤ(1)). A part of the common property can be designated as limited common property for the exclusive use of one or more units by a decision of the owners of at least 75% of the common property, but that route is closed for stairs, roof, foundations, main supporting walls, lifts, corridors and installations intended to serve all or some of the owners. Owners can draft, amend or replace the building’s regulations by a decision of owners of at least 75% of the common property (section 38ΙΘ(2)). Where no regulations are registered, the standard regulations in the Annex apply (section 38ΚΑ).

Under the standard regulations an owner may alter the interior of the unit if the works do not adversely affect other owners, the common property or the building’s supporting and external walls and appearance (regulation 4), an owner may not move, replace or interfere with any part of the common property apart from rights over limited common property (regulation 7(c)), general-meeting decisions are taken by a majority of the votes of those present with the right to vote unless the law or the regulations require a larger or special majority (regulation 33), and a decision that imposes on an owner an obligation or payment not provided for by the law or the regulations, or that alters the owner’s rights, does not bind that owner unless the owner consents (regulation 34). The consolidated text of Cap. 224 does not contain wording on recharging points; the provisions above are the general rules on common property.

Two further items concern use of charging spaces. An amendment to the extrajudicial settlement of offences law, approved by the House of Representatives in November 2025 and formalised in December 2025, sets an €85 fine for parking at a charging point in a publicly accessible space, including municipal parking, with a vehicle that is not an electric vehicle or an electric vehicle that is not connected and charging, according to Cyprus Mail on 16 December 2025, which also reported that the association of electric-vehicle companies welcomed the change. Politis reported on 16 March 2026, on the Transport Ministry’s 2025 policy review, that uptake of a Recovery and Resilience Plan scheme supporting private charging points was lower than expected.

Electricity tariffs and charging prices for electric vehicles in Cyprus

The EAC’s e-charge page lists the rates of the service, including VAT, as €0.42 per kWh for normal charging and €0.45 per kWh for fast charging, in a table row dated from November 2022, and the page was retrieved on 29 October 2026. Other charging operators set their own prices and are not covered by the sources used here. For home charging, Eurostat’s household electricity price statistics (dataset nrg_pc_204, updated 19 October 2026) give Cyprus prices by annual consumption band. For the band of 2,500 to 4,999 kWh a year, which would include a household using electricity for a car, the price with all taxes and levies was €0.2932 per kWh in the first half of 2025, €0.2774 in the second half of 2025 and €0.2688 in the first half of 2026, against €0.2832 for the EU-27 in the first half of 2026.

The EAC explains its domestic tariff structure with a worked example published on its website. For the single-rate domestic tariff (Code 01), bi-monthly customers on low voltage, the energy charge is 17.89 cents per kWh at the base fuel price of €600 per metric tonne plus a fuel adjustment, the network charge is 3.93 cents per kWh, and there are fixed charges per bi-monthly period of €0.94 for meter reading and €8.00 for supply. In the example, a fuel price of €701.72 per tonne raises the fuel adjustment to 2.6695 cents per kWh, giving a total energy charge of 20.5595 cents; with the network charge the variable part is 24.4895 cents per kWh before the fixed charges and any VAT or levies. For the two-rate tariff (Code 02) the same example gives 20.6095 cents for the standard period (09:00–23:00) and 20.5295 cents for the economy period (23:00–09:00), each plus the 3.93 cents network charge. The example is an illustration of how the price is built, not a statement of the price on a given bill.

The tariffs themselves are reset annually. The EAC announced on 24 April 2026 that the Cyprus Energy Regulatory Authority had approved new tariff prices for 2026 under Decision 105/2026, calculated on a basic fuel price of €600 per tonne under Decision 435/2025, and that the new tariff schemes were approved by Decision 129/2026; the new tariffs apply to monthly-billed customers from the end-of-April 2026 meter reading and to bi-monthly customers from the 1 May 2026 reading onwards.

The comparison with petrol uses the EU Weekly Oil Bulletin, which reports consumer prices with taxes for each member state. The Cyprus Euro-super 95 price was €1,729.5 per 1,000 litres, or €1.7295 per litre, for the week of 26 October 2026, with diesel at €2.005 per litre. Earlier 2026 values show the movement during the year: €1.3313 per litre on 5 January, €1.5133 on 6 April, €1.4707 on 6 July and €1.7295 on 26 October.

Grants and tax measures for electric vehicles in Cyprus in 2026

Purchase grants are paid under the Electromobility Promotion Scheme of the Ministry of Transport, Communications and Works, run by the Road Transport Department and financed by the Recovery and Resilience Plan (measure C2.2I3b). The Funding Programmes Portal lists the fourth call, “E-Mobility promotion plan in Cyprus, 4th announcement November 2025”, with a budget of €5,620,000, an opening date of 28 November 2025, a closing date of 30 June 2026 and the status “Closed” (Funding Programmes Portal). Its description states that after negotiations with the European authorities the verification point moved from payment of the grant to completion of the vehicle registration, which approved vehicles could complete by 30 June 2026, and that business participation must meet the de minimis aid rules and the do-no-significant-harm principle.

The grant amounts per category were reported by Fast Forward on 1 December 2025: €9,000 for a new private zero-emission vehicle, €9,000 for a used private zero-emission vehicle, €20,000 for a new zero-emission vehicle for eligible disabled users, €20,000 for a new zero-emission vehicle for large families and €15,000 for a new electric commercial vehicle up to 3,500 kg. Applications were online only from 09:00 on 5 December to 09:00 on 9 December 2025, with an electronic lottery if applications exceeded the grants available. Cyprus Mail reported on 5 July 2026 that the fourth scheme offered 520 subsidies of €9,000 or more. An earlier snapshot of the scheme by EAFO, dated 18 April 2025, listed a maximum eligible price of €80,000 including VAT for a new battery-electric car, a used battery-electric car of at most three years, a retention period of two years (five years for the social categories) and a separate €7,500 scrapping incentive for a plug-in hybrid emitting 50 g/km of CO2 or less that replaces an old combustion vehicle (EAFO incentives page).

Earlier rounds are described in press coverage. Cyprus Mail reported on 5 July 2026 that the third scheme, announced in 2024, paid €9,000 for 1,827 new and 104 used zero-emission vehicles and €7,500 in 1,228 cases for replacing an old vehicle with a battery-electric or plug-in hybrid vehicle, and that in April 2025 the government reduced the number of subsidies, citing unused funds before EU deadlines. Politis reported on 16 March 2026, on the Transport Ministry’s 2025 policy review, about 2,500 grants worth roughly €21.5 million in 2025. On the next scheme, the same Politis report said the Road Transport Department is preparing a new electric-vehicle subsidy programme running until 2030 to replace the Recovery and Resilience Plan schemes, and Cyprus Mail quoted the Road Transport Department’s Angelos Sofocleous on 5 July 2026 as saying that details on incentives, eligibility and timing had not yet been given. As of the sources dated up to 29 October 2026, the Funding Programmes Portal lists the fourth call as closed.

Tax and fee treatment is set by law. The registration fee is €150 for a vehicle (Annex I, Part I, paragraph 1(a) of Law 86/1972), and the annual road tax for an electric motor vehicle is €0.00 (paragraph 2 of the same Part). Other cars in category M1 pay road tax by CO2 emissions, as set out in the Cyprus car market guide. Law 39(I)/2019, published in the Gazette on 22 March 2019, replaced the Fourth Annex of the excise law so that motor cars are listed as duty-free, and a proviso in the same Annex states that vehicles that run exclusively on an electric motor bear no excise duty. The standard VAT rate in Cyprus is 19%, with reduced rates of 5% and 9%, according to Your Europe (page last checked 13 July 2026). The EU emissions trading system for road-transport fuels (ETS2) becomes fully operational in 2028, with the obligation to surrender allowances placed on fuel suppliers rather than drivers, according to the European Commission.

Costs of electric vehicles in Cyprus: listed prices and a running-cost illustration

Price data come from named sources only. The BYD Cyprus website, in a page dated 12 November 2025, lists starting prices of €20,990 for the Dolphin Surf, €33,990 for the Atto 3, €45,990 for the Seal, €49,990 for the Sealion 7 and €35,990 for the Seal U DM-i, which is a plug-in hybrid. These are list prices for one brand and are not a market average. On general price levels, Transport Minister Alexis Vafeades said on 16 March 2026, as Politis reported, that electric vehicles remain much more expensive than combustion vehicles, the Road Transport Department’s Angelos Sofocleous said on 5 July 2026 that electric-vehicle prices are falling, and Semio president Sotos Trikomitis said on 5 July 2026 that some electric vehicles now cost about the same as petrol cars (Cyprus Mail). The grant scheme’s eligibility ceiling for a new battery-electric car was €80,000 including VAT in the EAFO snapshot of 18 April 2025.

The illustration below compares energy cost per kilometre. It uses stated assumptions and shows each step so that a reader can substitute other values. The assumptions are chosen for the arithmetic and are not market statistics: 12,000 km a year, a battery-electric car using 16 kWh per 100 km at the plug (charging losses included) and a comparable petrol car using 6.0 litres per 100 km. The prices are the Cyprus Euro-super 95 price of €1.7295 per litre (EU Weekly Oil Bulletin, 26 October 2026), a home electricity price of €0.2688 per kWh (Eurostat, band DC, all taxes, first half of 2026) and the EAC e-charge rates of €0.42 per kWh (normal) and €0.45 per kWh (fast).

A mixed pattern can be calculated the same way: charging 80% of energy at home and 20% at the EAC normal rate gives 0.8 × €516.10 + 0.2 × €806.40 = €412.88 + €161.28 = €574.16 a year. The break-even electricity price, the price per kWh at which the electric car costs the same per kilometre as the petrol car, is €10.377 divided by 16 kWh, or €0.6486 per kWh. The result depends strongly on the petrol price, which moved during 2026. Using the same assumptions and home charging at €516.10 a year, the annual difference was €442.40 at the 5 January 2026 price of €1.3313, €573.50 at the 6 April price of €1.5133, €542.80 at the 6 July price of €1.4707 and €729.10 at the 26 October price of €1.7295.

Energy saved per year only matters against the extra purchase price. The table below divides a purchase-price premium by the annual saving to give the years needed for the energy saving to equal the premium; the premiums are inputs, not market data. Where a grant such as the €9,000 of the fourth call applied, it would have reduced the premium by that amount; that call is now closed. The calculation leaves out a home charger and its installation, insurance, maintenance, tyres, depreciation, the road tax difference that depends on the petrol car’s CO2 emissions, financing costs and any change in tariffs.

Grid and energy context for electric vehicles in Cyprus

Electricity used for charging is generated from the national mix. Eurostat’s renewable-energy indicators (dataset nrg_ind_ren, updated 15 September 2026) put the renewable share of electricity in Cyprus at 9.8% in 2019, 12.0% in 2020, 14.8% in 2021, 17.0% in 2022, 20.9% in 2023, 24.1% in 2024 and a provisional 27.5% in 2025, against 47.5% for the EU-27 in 2024 and a provisional 49.9% in 2025. The renewable share of transport energy in Cyprus was 7.4% in 2024, against 11.2% for the EU-27, and the overall renewable share of final energy consumption was 21.5% in 2025 (provisional) against 26.2% for the EU-27. Eurostat’s electricity production data (dataset nrg_ind_peh, updated 22 October 2026) give Cyprus gross electricity production of 5,763 GWh in 2024, of which 4,452 GWh (77.3%) came from combustible fuels, 1,108 GWh (19.2%) from solar and 203 GWh (3.5%) from wind.

The EAC, in its review of activities of 23 July 2026, states that by the end of 2025 about 97,600 renewable systems with a combined capacity above 1,068 MW were connected to the distribution system: 251 utility-scale projects of about 340 MW and about 95,600 self-consumption photovoltaic systems of about 600 MW, with a further 1,000 MW expected by 2030. It also reports that Vasiliko accounted for about 66% of the EAC’s generation in 2025, Dhekelia about 32% and Moni about 1%. The distribution system operator reported about 306 GWh of renewable curtailment in 2025, up from about 167 GWh the previous year, and former energy minister George Papanastasiou said about 160 GWh had been lost by the end of May 2026 (Cyprus Mail, 23 June 2026). The same report said the Energy Minister, Michalis Damianos, announced contracts for 120 MW of state-backed batteries managed by the transmission system operator, costing €50 million, with delivery expected in January 2027 and operation by summer 2027, and that 36 battery applications with about 925 MW of requested capacity are in the pipeline.

The following is arithmetic on stated assumptions and is not a demand forecast. If the 85,000-vehicle target were reached and each vehicle drove 12,000 km a year at 16 kWh per 100 km, annual consumption would be 85,000 × 12,000 × 0.16 = 163.2 million kWh, or 163.2 GWh, equal to 2.8% of the 5,763 GWh of gross production in 2024. For the 7,539 licensed electric vehicles of 2025 on the same assumptions the figure is 14.5 GWh, 0.25% of 2024 gross production. The assumed mileage and consumption apply to all categories for simplicity, although mopeds use far less energy per kilometre.

What named bodies say about barriers and developments

The statements below are attributed to the bodies and dates given in the cited reports. They are not findings of this guide.

• Transport Ministry, 16 March 2026 (Politis): Transport Minister Alexis Vafeades said the market still needs government support because electric vehicles remain much more expensive than combustion vehicles, and said the economy has not yet reached the point where the market will shift without intervention. He gave about 85,000 electric vehicles by 2030 as the target and noted that about 40,000 vehicles are registered each year.
• Transport Ministry, 7 October 2026 (Cyprus Mail): Transport Minister Evie Tsolaki wrote that electromobility also depends on private chargers at homes and businesses, which could run on solar power, and set out the 94-point fast-charging plan described above.
• Road Transport Department, 5 July 2026 (Cyprus Mail): Angelos Sofocleous gave about 8,200 licensed electric vehicles, said prices are falling and that EU road-fuel emissions pricing (ETS2) begins in 2028, and said the 2030 target needs broader policy including replacing older vehicles and expanding charging.
• Semio, the importers’ association, 8 December 2025 (Politis) and 5 July 2026 (Cyprus Mail): president Sotos Trikomitis asked for annual subsidies of €15 million to €20 million, compared with €5.6 million for the fourth scheme, and for clearer information on future grants.
• Association of electric-vehicle companies, 16 December 2025 (Cyprus Mail): welcomed the €85 fine for blocking charging points, saying illegal parking disrupts the daily use of the charging network.
• Federation of Employers and Industrialists (OEV), 17 March 2025 (Cyprus Mail): proposed amending the Petroleum Products Law so that petrol stations can expand charging infrastructure.
• Electricity Authority of Cyprus, 23 July 2026: reported the move of e-charge to app-and-bank-card use without a subscription from 1 June 2026, 62 stations and 25 further points planned by the end of 2026, and described curtailment of renewable energy as an issue that involves several organisations.
• European Commission, ACEA and Eurostat: publish the EU comparisons used in this guide: battery-electric cars were 17.4% of new EU registrations in 2025 per ACEA, and 2.88% of the EU passenger-car fleet per Eurostat.

Some figures help to read these statements. The third grant scheme paid €9,000 grants for 1,931 purchases (1,827 new and 104 used vehicles) according to Cyprus Mail, the fourth call offered 520 grants of €9,000 or more, and CYSTAT recorded 2,220 electric registrations of all categories in 2024 and 2,223 in 2025. Semio’s request of €15 million to €20 million a year corresponds, at €9,000 a grant, to about 1,667 to 2,222 grants a year; this is arithmetic only, since grant amounts vary by category.

Headline figures on electric vehicles in Cyprus, with sources and dates

The table lists every headline figure used in this guide with its source and the date it applies to. Figures calculated here are marked as such.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many electric vehicles in Cyprus are on the road?

According to CYSTAT-DB (updated 6 May 2026), the licensed stock of electric vehicles in Cyprus was 7,539 vehicles of all categories at the end of 2025, of which 5,244 were passenger cars, 2,033 mopeds under 50cc and 211 goods vehicles. Eurostat adds 2,498 licensed plug-in hybrid passenger cars, which CYSTAT counts inside its hybrid total. On 5 July 2026 the Road Transport Department put licensed electric vehicles of all categories at about 8,200, as Cyprus Mail reported.

What share of new cars are electric?

For new electric vehicles in Cyprus, ACEA’s full-year 2025 table gives 1,474 new battery-electric cars out of 14,634 new cars, or 10.07%, against 17.4% for the EU-27. EAFO’s 2026 part-year figure is 1,044 battery-electric cars and 11.2%. CYSTAT’s lower 4.2% (January–September 2026) is a share of all passenger cars registered, including used imports, so it answers a different question.

How many public charging points exist for electric vehicles in Cyprus?

For electric vehicles in Cyprus, the Transport Ministry reported 384 publicly accessible points at 221 stations in a letter dated 7 October 2026. EAFO shows 627 points (582 AC and 45 DC) for September 2026, and the EAC reports 62 stations in its own network on 23 July 2026. The figures come from different bodies and are not added together.

Which connectors and speeds do EAC chargers use?

The EAC states that each station has two sockets, with Type 2, CCS and CHAdeMO connectors listed, up to 22 kW three-phase AC and up to 120 kW DC. Since 1 June 2026 charging is started in the EAC e-charge app and paid by bank card without a subscription. The listed rates including VAT are €0.42 per kWh for normal and €0.45 per kWh for fast charging.

Are there rules requiring charging points in buildings?

For charging electric vehicles in Cyprus, section 9Δ of the Energy Performance of Buildings Law 142(I)/2006 requires at least one recharging point in non-residential buildings with more than 20 parking spaces from 1 January 2025, ducting for every space in new or majorly renovated residential buildings with more than two spaces, and ducting for one space in five plus a recharging point in non-residential buildings with more than ten spaces. Buildings whose permit application was filed by 10 March 2021 are exempt from the new-build and renovation rules, as are cases where the cost exceeds 7% of the renovation cost.

Is there a grant for electric vehicles in Cyprus now?

The purchase grant for electric vehicles in Cyprus is the Electromobility Promotion Scheme. The Funding Programmes Portal lists its fourth call (budget €5,620,000) as closed, with a 30 June 2026 deadline for registration of approved vehicles. Fast Forward reported amounts of €9,000 to €20,000 by category on 1 December 2025. Politis (16 March 2026) and Cyprus Mail (5 July 2026) describe a successor programme to 2030 as being prepared, without amounts or dates.

What taxes and fees apply to electric vehicles in Cyprus?

For electric vehicles in Cyprus, Law 86/1972 sets a €150 registration fee and €0.00 annual road tax for an electric motor vehicle. Cars are listed as duty-free under the excise law amended by Law 39(I)/2019, and the standard VAT rate is 19% according to Your Europe (checked 13 July 2026).

How does the running cost of an electric car compare with petrol?

For electric vehicles in Cyprus on the stated assumptions of 12,000 km a year, 16 kWh per 100 km, 6.0 litres per 100 km, petrol at €1.7295 per litre and home electricity at €0.2688 per kWh, energy costs about €516 a year for the electric car and €1,245 for the petrol car, a difference of €729. At EAC normal charging of €0.42 per kWh the electric car costs €806, a difference of €439. The assumptions are illustrations and the result moves with the petrol price, which was €1.3313 per litre on 5 January 2026.

Is Cyprus the lowest in the EU for electric cars?

Not on Eurostat’s passenger-car fleet data for 31 December 2025: battery-electric cars were 0.79% of the Cyprus fleet, and Poland, Greece, Croatia, Bulgaria, Slovakia and Romania had lower shares. On combined battery-electric and plug-in shares, five states were lower (Croatia, Bulgaria, Poland, Romania, Greece). On ACEA’s 2025 new-car data, 13 EU member states had a lower battery-electric share of new registrations than Cyprus, which was at 10.07%. The two rankings of electric vehicles in Cyprus against other member states cover different things: the fleet and new registrations.

How much of the electricity for electric vehicles in Cyprus comes from renewables?

Eurostat gives a renewable share of electricity of 24.1% for 2024 and a provisional 27.5% for 2025, against 47.5% and 49.9% for the EU-27. Of the 5,763 GWh of gross electricity produced in 2024, 77.3% came from combustible fuels, 19.2% from solar and 3.5% from wind. The grid mix is the same for every electricity user, so the share applies to the electricity that electric vehicles in Cyprus draw as to other loads.

Last checked: 29 October 2026. Sources: CYSTAT press release, January–September 2026; CYSTAT press releases, January–August 2026 (monthly series); CYSTAT press release, January–December 2025; CYSTAT press release, January–December 2024; CYSTAT services and transport statistics (CYSTAT-DB); EAFO Cyprus; EAFO Cyprus infrastructure; EAFO Cyprus target tracker; ACEA, new car registrations December 2025; Eurostat road_eqs_carpda; Eurostat nrg_pc_204; Eurostat nrg_ind_ren; Eurostat nrg_ind_peh; EU Weekly Oil Bulletin; EAC e-charge service; EAC e-charge announcement, 8 June 2026; EAC review of activities, 23 July 2026; EAC 2026 tariff announcement; EAC kWh price calculation; Law 142(I)/2006 on CyLaw; Cap. 224 on CyLaw; Law 86/1972 on CyLaw; Law 39(I)/2019; Funding Programmes Portal, 4th call; Fast Forward, 4th EV grant call; Cyprus Mail, 23 October 2026; Cyprus Mail, 5 July 2026; Cyprus Mail, 23 June 2026; Cyprus Mail, 16 December 2025; Cyprus Mail, 17 March 2025; Politis, 16 March 2026; Politis, 8 December 2025; European Parliament Legislative Observatory, AFIR; European Commission, AFIR; European Commission, EPBD; European Commission, ETS2; Your Europe, VAT rates; BYD Cyprus price page; EAFO Cyprus incentives.