What changes when a fleet goes electric?
A fleet manager at a parcel delivery company runs a depot with 30 electric vans. Twelve sales staff also drive electric company cars, which they charge at home.
In half an hour, the first vans return from their rounds.
The questionWhat changes for a company whose vehicles run on electricity?
133,029 electric vehicles of 1,343,684 new goods road motor vehicles up to 3.5 tonnes in the EU in 2025, after 89,093 of 1,471,307 in 2024.
Vans are catching up
About 1.3 million new vans and other were registered in the EU in 2025. Almost one in ten was electric, up from about one in sixteen the year before.
From the pump to the parking space
A combustion fleet refuels at a station, in minutes, anywhere. An electric fleet charges where its vehicles stand still: overnight at the depot, at the employee's home, during the working day at the office. Energy becomes part of the site, with its grid connection, chargers and software, and three questions become daily routine:
- Where does each vehicle charge?
- When does it have to be ready?
- Who pays, and how is it accounted for?
Check your understanding
3 questions. Answer all of them to complete this stop. Each answer explains itself.
How did the electric share of new light goods vehicles in the EU change from 2024 to 2025?
Eurostat: 6.1% in 2024 and 9.9% in 2025.
About how many new vans and other light goods vehicles were registered in the EU in 2025?
Eurostat counts 1,343,684 new goods road motor vehicles up to 3.5 tonnes in the EU in 2025.
What changes most for a fleet when it goes electric?
Charging moves to the depot, the home and the office, where vehicles stand still.
- Light goods vehicle A van or small truck for goods with a maximum mass of up to 3.5 tonnes, category N1 in EU vehicle approval. Glossary
- Eurostat: New lorries, by type of motor energy (road_eqr_lormot): goods road motor vehicles up to 3.5 tonnes, EU27, 2024 and 2025, updated 6 October 2026. https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/road_eqr_lormot/default/table. Checked 09 Oct 2026. Reused under the Eurostat copyright notice; shares and ratios calculated by emobility.education, Eurostat is not responsible for them.
- Eurostat: New lorries, by type of motor energy (road_eqr_lormot): goods road motor vehicles up to 3.5 tonnes, EU27, 2024 and 2025, updated 6 October 2026. https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/road_eqr_lormot/default/table. Checked 09 Oct 2026. Reused under the Eurostat copyright notice; shares and ratios calculated by emobility.education, Eurostat is not responsible for them.