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Our approach to sourcing

Primary government data. Nothing else.

Most EV market data products ingest from a mix of public sources, third-party rankings, OEM disclosures, and licensed feeds, then publish a blended number you can’t reconstruct. EV Atlas takes a different position: every row in the production dataset comes from primary government registration data. We don’t publish the full list of source agencies on this page — that detail belongs in the methodology document we share with subscribers under NDA.

The discipline

What we will and won’t use.

What we use
  • Primary government vehicle registration data
  • Per-vehicle microdata where the source publishes it
  • Official open-data APIs and bulk publications
  • Source-redistributable annual reference data for global context
What we don’t use
  • ·Press-release math
  • ·Third-party model rankings without redistribution rights
  • ·Scraped web pages from manufacturer sites
  • ·Estimates derived from incomplete fuel-class breakdowns
  • ·Aggregator feeds that don't expose underlying source-document lineage
Coverage at launch · 5 markets

Markets currently in production.

Five European markets at launch, with depth we can defend on the data and methodology — not on the marketing claim. Each market page documents history depth, powertrains, and the caveats specific to that registry. The agency-level detail is in the subscriber methodology.

MarketPowertrainsHistoryCadenceDetail
Germany DEBEV, PHEVBEV history back to 2019; PHEV separately tracked from 2021monthly/coverage/germany
Spain ESBEV, PHEV, FCEVEleven-plus years of monthly history, the deepest in our European coveragemonthly/coverage/spain
Netherlands NLBEV, PHEV, FCEVSixteen-plus years of monthly history — the longest in our datasetmonthly/coverage/netherlands
Belgium BEBEV, PHEV, FCEVBEV/FCEV from 2021; PHEV cleanly separated from 2024 onwardmonthly/coverage/belgium
Finland FIBEV, PHEVTwelve-plus years of monthly model-level historymonthly/coverage/finland
Why this matters

The cost of the discipline, and the benefit.

The cost is coverage breadth. There are markets we don’t ship yet because the public registration data isn’t deep enough and we haven’t cleared a redistributable licensed feed. We don’t paper over those gaps with estimates.

The benefit is that every number we ship is defensible to your auditors, your committee, and your downstream consumers. When a senior analyst asks “where does this come from” in a Monday meeting, you have an answer that holds up. When a regulator asks how a forecast was sourced, you have a paper trail. When your engineering team asks for the SHA-256 of the source file, the row carries one.

We don’t publish the source-agency catalog on this page because doing so would commoditize the work. The discipline is the product; the methodology document is the proof. Subscribers see the full detail under NDA.

Read the methodology principles →

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Beta · Source-by-source methodology shared with subscribers under NDA