There are now some 22,000 electric cars on the Dutch roads, a 60% increase on a year ago, the national statistics office CBS said on Friday.

By contrast, the number of hybrids rose just 1.6% to 97,000, the CBS said. In total, this means about 1.4% of cars in the Netherlands are entirely or partially powered by electricity, the CBS said.

Changes to the taxes on hybrid cars is behind the collapse of hybrid sales, the CBS said.