Not long ago, Poles loved diesel cars, but today they are scrapping them en masse.

According to data from the European Vehicle Manufacturers' Association (ACEA), in 2025, 43,311 brand-new electric cars and 42,543 new diesel passenger cars were registered in Poland. In the case of electrics, this means a year-on-year increase in registrations by a record 161.5 percent, and in the case of diesels – a decrease of 11.7 percent.

On the scale of the entire European Union, the results are even more devastating for fans of diesel cars. The year 2025 closed with 1,888,370 registrations of electric cars and only 960,024 new diesel cars registered in the EU countries. The former recorded an increase of 29.9 per cent, the latter – a record drop of nearly 1/4 (-24.2 per cent).