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Romania Vehicle Fleet Explorer (Parc Auto Romania)

Browse Romania's registered vehicle fleet by county, fuel type, brand and category. All figures come from Parc auto Romania, the official DRPCIV register published as open data on data.gov.ro, as of 2025-12-31. Built for rental companies and fleet managers who need reliable fleet statistics before sizing or relocating a fleet.

10,532,424
Registered vehicles
55.3%
Diesel
39.3%
Petrol
0.7%
Fully electric

Romania's vehicle fleet at a glance

As of 2025-12-31, Romania had 10,532,424 registered vehicles across 42 counties (județe, including Bucharest). The fleet remains overwhelmingly combustion-powered: diesel accounts for 5,827,963 vehicles (55.3%) and petrol for 4,138,402 (39.3%). Together the two fuels cover the large majority of the country's cars and vans.

Passenger cars make up 8,771,216 units (83.3%) and light commercial vehicles 1,240,916 (11.8%) — the two categories that matter most to a rental fleet. These vehicle fleet statistics are a stock figure: they describe what is on the register today, not the flow of new registrations.

Fuel mix and electrification, 2015–2025

Electrification is visible but still early. Electric cars in Romania number 70,826, or just 0.7% of the fleet — under one percent. The trajectory, however, is steep: the electric count grew from 468 vehicles in 2015 to 70,826 in 2025, roughly a 151-fold increase. Hybrid cars follow a similar curve, reaching 381,002 vehicles (3.6%), while LPG and CNG make up 114,229 (1.1%). Diesel cars, which were a minority in 2015 (44.1%), now form the largest block, fed by used imports.

Registered vehicles in Romania by fuel type, 2015–2025
YearTotalDieselPetrolHybridElectric
20156,252,58744.1%55.7%0.1%0%
20198,282,61252.4%47%0.3%0%
20219,123,63754.7%43.8%0.9%0.1%
20239,725,27655.5%41.4%1.9%0.4%
202510,532,42455.3%39.3%3.6%0.7%

Parc auto Romania by county (județ)

The 12 largest county fleets hold 51.8% of registered vehicles. Bucuresti alone weighs 15.5% and stands out with the lowest diesel share and the highest electric share of the group; Suceava, at 70.7% diesel, is the most exposed. The interactive explorer below covers all 42 counties — from Harghita to Vaslui — with the full fuel split for each.

Top 12 Romanian counties by registered vehicles, with diesel and electric shares
CountyRegistered vehiclesShare of RomaniaDieselElectric
Bucuresti1,631,15515.5%42%1.6%
Cluj416,0714%59.1%1%
Timis399,6363.8%54.3%0.8%
Constanta384,4623.7%53.7%0.6%
Prahova374,5903.6%54.3%0.4%
Arges348,0003.3%51.5%0.4%
Suceava331,6123.1%70.7%0.4%
Dolj321,4603.1%51.7%0.5%
Iasi313,1333%55%0.9%
Ilfov312,1893%52%1.3%
Bihor311,2933%62.6%0.5%
Brasov310,3562.9%50.7%0.7%

Leading car brands in Romania

Two brands dominate the register: Volkswagen (1,670,090 vehicles) and the domestic Dacia (1,634,920). The gap in fuel mix between them is telling — 71.8% diesel for Volkswagen, mostly second-hand imports, against 21.5% for Dacia, bought new and more often petrol or LPG. Brand totals below are a top-30 subset, so they do not add up to the national figure.

Top 8 vehicle brands in Romania by registered vehicles
BrandRegistered vehiclesDieselPetrolElectric
Volkswagen1,670,09071.8%27.5%0.3%
Dacia1,634,92021.5%70.3%1.1%
Opel750,60048.1%51.4%0.1%
Ford740,94765.4%31.1%0.3%
Mercedes-Benz580,90081.1%13%0.5%
Renault573,28560.9%34.7%0.9%
BMW553,63872.2%21.1%0.3%
Audi513,31679.3%15.6%0.2%

Vehicle categories

Fleet by county, brand and category: interactive explorer

Switch between the 42 counties, the top brands and the main vehicle categories, and read the fuel split for each. Use it to compare regional fleets, gauge diesel exposure or track how far electrification has reached in a given area.

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What this means for fleet operators in Romania

For a rental company or a corporate fleet, the register is a market map. A customer base that drives 55.3% diesel expects diesel vans and long-range saloons; an all-electric rental fleet would run ahead of both demand and charging infrastructure outside Bucuresti, Cluj and Ilfov, the only counties where electric vehicles reach 1% of the fleet. Diesel residual values are still supported by domestic demand, which matters when you plan the resale of a three-year-old fleet.

County figures help decide where to open a branch and how to size it: a station in Suceava or Bihor will serve a heavily diesel clientele, while Bucharest is where hybrid and electric demand first appears. The brand table shows which models drivers already know — useful when choosing a rental fleet that customers will accept without hesitation. Lexio's fleet management software for rental companies tracks each vehicle's utilisation, mileage and margin so these market signals can be checked against your own numbers.

About the Parc auto Romania dataset

This tool reuses Parc auto Romania, the Romanian automotive register kept by the Direcția Regim Permise de Conducere și Înmatriculare a Vehiculelor (DRPCIV) (DRPCIV) and published as open data on data.gov.ro. The "registered fleet" counts every vehicle currently entered in the national registry — passenger cars, light commercials, motorcycles and other categories — regardless of whether it was driven in a given period. It is a stock figure, not a count of new registrations, and it says nothing about the used imports that shape the Romanian car market each year.

Fuel labels are normalised from the dataset's own values (diesel, petrol, hybrid, electric, LPG/CNG). Brand spellings are merged where the register uses several variants for the same make. The county set is complete (42 of 42, summing exactly to the national total); brand and category lists are top-N subsets.

Frequently asked questions about Romania’s vehicle fleet

How many vehicles are registered in Romania?

As of 2025-12-31, the Romanian automotive register kept by DRPCIV counted 10,532,424 registered vehicles, including 8,771,216 passenger cars and 1,240,916 light commercial vehicles. This is a stock figure (every vehicle currently on the register), not a count of new registrations.

What is Parc auto Romania?

Parc auto Romania is the official open dataset of the Romanian vehicle register, published by DRPCIV (the driving-licence and vehicle-registration directorate) on data.gov.ro under the OGL-ROU-1.0 licence. It lists every registered vehicle by county, fuel type, brand and category. This page is a free explorer built on that dataset.

What share of Romania’s fleet is electric?

Fully electric vehicles represent 0.7% of the fleet (70,826 vehicles), hybrids 3.6% (381,002). The electric count grew from 468 in 2015 to 70,826 in 2025, roughly a 151-fold increase, but diesel and petrol still power about 94.6% of registered vehicles.

Which county has the largest vehicle fleet in Romania?

Bucharest (București) by far, with 1,631,155 registered vehicles, or 15.5% of the national fleet. It is followed by Cluj (416,071), Timis (399,636) and Constanta (384,462). Bucharest also has the lowest diesel share of the large counties (42%) and the highest electric share (1.6%).

What are the most common car brands in Romania?

Volkswagen (1,670,090 vehicles) and Dacia (1,634,920) lead the register, followed by Opel, Ford, Mercedes-Benz and Renault. Dacia, the domestic brand, is the least diesel-dependent of the top two: 21.5% diesel against 71.8% for Volkswagen.

Does the fleet count include vans and light commercial vehicles?

Yes. The register covers every category: passenger cars (Autoturism, 8,771,216), light commercial vehicles (Autoutilitara, 1,240,916), motorcycles (230,359), minibuses, road tractors and special-purpose vehicles. The “Categories” tab of the explorer gives the fuel split for each of them.

How often is the Parc auto Romania dataset updated?

DRPCIV publishes periodic snapshots of the register on data.gov.ro. This page uses the snapshot dated 2025-12-31, retrieved on 2026-07-27. Figures are refreshed when a new snapshot is released; the date of the data in use is always shown on the page.

Other countries covered

Lexio publishes the same kind of open-data explorer for other national registers. Each one uses the local official source and its own territorial unit:

See all Lexio fleet tools for rental contract templates, vehicle inspection forms and tax simulators.

Why Lexio built this

Lexio is vehicle rental and fleet management software, so understanding how national fleets are composed is part of our everyday work. We published this explorer as a straightforward reuse of public data: it is a data tool first, free to use, and it needs no account.