Electric cars and Greek road tax in 2026
In Greece, battery-electric and hydrogen cars pay no road tax; hybrids have no general exemption and pay on their CO₂ figure like any other car.
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Electric cars pay no road tax in Greece in 2026. Article 20 of Law 2948/2001 expressly exempts battery-electric and hydrogen passenger cars, as well as electric and hydrogen motorcycles, and in any case an electric car carries zero grams of CO₂ on its registration certificate, which gives zero on every table. The saving shows when you compare it with the combustion car you might otherwise buy: a 2026 petrol crossover rated at 165 g/km on the WLTP cycle owes €115.50 a year, or €693 over six years. Hybrids, plug-in or not, have no general exemption. They pay on the CO₂ figure in field V.7, and the many that stay at or below 122 g/km on the WLTP table pay nothing because they fall in the zero band. The law’s only specific mention of hybrids concerns cars bought from the State or its surplus agency. Use the tool below with the CO₂ figure of the petrol car you are weighing up to see what the electric option saves over your ownership period.
What an electric car saves you
Road tax saved in total
€840
| Petrol car per year | €105.00 |
| Electric per year | €0 |
The legal basis of the exemption
Two features of article 20 combine. First, the method: cars first registered from 1 November 2010 are taxed purely on grams of CO₂ multiplied by a rate, and a battery-electric car shows zero grams in field V.7, so the product is zero. Second, an express provision: the article states that electric and hydrogen cars, and electric and hydrogen two- and three-wheeled motorcycles, are exempt from road tax.
In practice there is no annual road tax bill to budget for and no reason to consider akinisia, the off-road declaration, just to avoid one. The exemption covers road tax only; insurance and the other running costs of a car are outside the scope of this page.
Hybrids: what article 20 says and what it does not
This is where confusion starts. Article 20 mentions hybrids in a single place: the provision on passenger cars sold by the State or the Public Materials Management Organisation (ODDY) and put on the road for private use. Those cars are taxed on the third engine-size table anyway, and within that group hybrids up to 1,548 cc are exempt, while larger ones pay sixty per cent of the tax on the equivalent conventional car. A conventional 1,798 cc car in that category would owe €320.
Every other hybrid, bought new from a dealer or used from a private seller, is taxed like any car of its age: by engine size if first registered up to 31 October 2010, by the CO₂ figure on its certificate if registered later. Plenty of hybrids pay nothing because their WLTP figure sits at or below 122 g/km, inside the zero band, not because of any hybrid relief. One registered in 2019 is on the NEDC table, whose zero band ends at 90 g/km, so a rating of 99 g/km already costs €89.10. The CO₂ band guide shows where every limit lies.
What you save, depending on the petrol car you would have bought
| Petrol car, WLTP CO₂ | Tax per year | Over 3 years | Over 6 years | Over 10 years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 130 g/km | €83.20 | €250 | €499 | €832 |
| 150 g/km | €105.00 | €315 | €630 | €1,050 |
| 170 g/km | €144.50 | €434 | €867 | €1,445 |
| 190 g/km | €161.50 | €485 | €969 | €1,615 |
| 215 g/km | €402.05 | €1,206 | €2,412 | €4,021 |
| 240 g/km | €528.00 | €1,584 | €3,168 | €5,280 |
Each row is the road tax a new combustion car would pay on the 2026 WLTP table, over typical ownership periods. It is exactly what an electric car does not pay over the same years. The curve is not smooth: between 190 and 215 g/km the yearly bill more than doubles, because the car crosses the 208 g/km limit and every gram is then charged at €1.87 instead of €0.85.
The figures assume the article 20 rates stay as they are. If the law changes, the table updates with the site’s parameters.
Two purchase decisions, worked through
A family crossover. You are choosing between a petrol version at 165 g/km and the electric version of the same model. The petrol car owes €115.50 a year, which over six years is €693. That sum belongs in the comparison next to the purchase price and the cost of fuel or electricity.
A seven-seater. At 240 g/km the petrol car owes €528.00 a year and €5,280 over ten years. At this emission level road tax alone becomes a meaningful part of the ownership cost, and the exemption weighs much more.
Which CO₂ band you are in
Road tax
€86.40
| Band | 123-139 g/km |
| Euros per gram | €0.64 |
| In the band below | €0.00 |
Bringing an electric car to Greece
The exemption does not depend on age or country of origin: a used electric car imported from another EU country pays no road tax, just like a new one. What is worth checking is the registration certificate itself, in particular the fuel or power source in field P.3 and the CO₂ value in field V.7. When those are right, the road tax calculator returns zero.
If you are keeping a combustion car while you decide, the guide to road tax per month explains why the current year’s tax is owed in full even if you sell early in the year. And to see what the yearly bill means against your income, the Greek salary calculator gives your net pay in a couple of clicks.