The 11th largest of 23 markets measured · figures dated 1 November 2026
The used-car market in Sweden
As of 1 November 2026, the median asking price of a used car advertised in Sweden is EUR 18,250, at a median odometer reading of 109,000 km, measured across 158,405 live adverts.
- Median asking price
- EUR 18,25010th dearest of 23 markets
- Median odometer
- 109,000 km
- Live adverts
- 158,40511th largest market here
- Powertrains published
- 11
Prices are rounded to the nearest EUR 250 and mileage to 1,000 km, and every figure is a median over live adverts — not over sales.
What is on the market
Every powertrain with enough adverts in Sweden to publish, largest first. Groups too small to publish are not shown; how the thresholds work. The share is of the adverts this service holds for Sweden, so it describes the forecourt rather than the national fleet.
| Powertrain | Adverts | Share | Median price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Diesel | 55,913 | 35.3% | EUR 13,750 |
| Petrol | 52,874 | 33.4% | EUR 12,750 |
| Electric (BEV) | 20,866 | 13.2% | EUR 38,250 |
| Petrol plug-in hybrid | 15,172 | 9.6% | EUR 37,250 |
| Petrol hybrid, plug-in status unknown | 10,457 | 6.6% | EUR 26,500 |
| Ethanol E85 / FFV | 1,161 | 0.7% | EUR 9,000 |
| Diesel plug-in hybrid | 940 | 0.6% | EUR 50,000 |
| CNG / biomethane (incl. petrol/CNG bi-fuel) | 380–390 | 0.2% | EUR 7,250 |
| Gas (CNG/LPG) hybrid | 330–340 | 0.2% | EUR 9,000 |
| Diesel hybrid, plug-in status unknown | 170–180 | 0.1% | EUR 49,500 |
| Unknown | 120–130 | 0.1% | EUR 34,250 |
Bringing a car into Sweden
What a country charges to put a foreign car on its own plates is usually the largest term in a cross-border comparison: on one identical EUR 15,000 car it runs from about EUR 33 to about EUR 16,000 across Europe. Every figure below carries the document it came from and the date it was last checked. Where we have not verified one, this page says so instead of printing a number.
Registration tax
None VerifiedSweden levies no registration tax. What it levies instead is a raised annual vehicle tax, the malus, on high-emission cars, and that runs for three years from the moment the vehicle first became liable to tax, in Sweden or in another country. An import first registered abroad more than three years ago is therefore outside it, and that can be decided from the model year alone with no CO2 figure. For a younger car we publish nothing rather than guess: the malus depends on emissions, which our listings do not record.
i tre år från det att fordonet blir skattepliktigt för första gången
i Sverige eller i annat land
VAT
25% VerifiedStandard VAT rate as published by the European Commission's Taxes in Europe database. Shown for reference only. Whether VAT is actually due on a used car depends on the transaction rather than on the country, so no VAT charge is calculated anywhere in this service; the cases are set out in the method.
Read from this record in the source database, shown exactly as it was returned:
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Tolls and road charges
No general charge VerifiedNo general road charge applies to a passenger car. Cars pay congestion tax in Stockholm and Gothenburg, infrastructure charges at Motala, Sundsvall and Skurubron, and the Öresund bridge toll.
Road user charge applies for trucks or truck/trailer combinations with a total weight exceeding 12 tons.
The limits below are the ones that attach to a worked example: a car first registered in 2019, old enough that no age-based exemption changes the answer. A newer car can be answered differently, and the records above say on what.
- The registration figure is the tax alone. Plate and administration fees are excluded rather than estimated.
- Transport, plate and administration fees, VAT treatment and customs duty are not included anywhere in this service. Nothing on this page is a landed cost.
Where these numbers come from
Sweden is one of 23 national markets this service measures daily from public marketplace listings. The published figures are aggregates: a median needs at least 20 adverts behind it, a quartile at least 50, and counts below 500 are published as a band rather than exactly. No advert, seller or individual price is ever published. The full method is here.