In 2024, the share of renewable energy sources in transport reached 11.2% at the EU level, a 0.2 percentage points (pp) increase from 2023. When the time series began in 2004, this share stood at 1.4%.
The 2024 share was 17.8 pp lower than the 29% target for 2030 on the use of energy from renewable sources in transport.
Distribution by country
Sweden was the EU country with the highest share of renewables in transport (26.4%), followed by Finland (20.3%) and the Netherlands (19.7%). By contrast, the lowest shares were registered in Croatia (0.9%), Greece (3.9%) and Czechia (5.7%).
Source: Eurostat, citing nrg_ind_ren.
Among the 19 EU countries that recorded increases in the use of energy from renewables in transport between 2023 and 2024, the highest were in Latvia (+7.4 pp) and the Netherlands (+6.2 pp).
On the other hand, after becoming the only EU country that not only met the 29% target but surpassed it with a 33.6% share in 2023, Sweden saw the highest drop in this share (-7.2 pp) in 2024. The other 7 decreases varied between -0.1 pp (Greece and Cyprus) and -0.8 pp (Slovenia).
Source: Eurostat