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December 2025 edition 17 countries Final figures, compiled retrospectively

Tesla, BYD and Europe’s best-selling EVs: December 2025

Tesla registered 25,188 cars in the 14 countries with a Tesla figure for December 2025. In the 13 countries with a year-earlier figure it was down 34% (23,921 vs 36,043): up in 2, down in 11. Tesla outsold BYD (battery-electric and plug-in hybrid) in 8 of the 12 countries that publish every brand: 21,979 Tesla vs 20,176 BYD. Counting battery-electric cars only, in 10 countries: Tesla 13,357, BYD 5,964 (BYD's figure for Austria is an estimate).

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Battery-electric cars 289,628 +49% YoY in 14 countries Total of 16 countries
BEV share of new cars 28.2% 20.0% a year earlier Same 14 countries in both years
Chinese brands’ share 8.9% 4.0% a year earlier (same 12) All new cars, 12 countries · definition
BYD vs Tesla BYD20,176 Tesla21,979 BYD ahead in 4 of the 12 countries that publish every brand
17 countries in this edition
  • Netherlands 65% BEV
  • Norway 98% BEV
  • Sweden 43% BEV
  • Denmark 81% BEV
  • Finland 53% BEV
  • Germany 22% BEV
  • United Kingdom 32% BEV
  • France 25% BEV
  • Spain 11% BEV
  • Italy 11% BEV
  • Belgium brands only, no BEV
  • Switzerland 32% BEV
  • Austria 21% BEV
  • Portugal 27% BEV
  • Ireland 62% BEV
  • Poland 12% BEV
  • Czechia 6% BEV

December 2025 in short

Every answer compares the same countries in both periods and says how many. Copy takes the sentence with its credit.

How many Teslas were registered in Europe in December 2025?
Tesla registered 25,188 cars in the 14 countries covered here that have a Tesla figure for December 2025. In the 13 countries with a year-earlier figure, Tesla was down 34% (23,921 vs 36,043): up in 2, down in 11. Year to date in 12 countries: 163,172 (−32%).
Did BYD outsell Tesla in Europe in December 2025?
No, counting all powertrains. In the 12 countries that publish every brand, BYD registered 20,176 cars (battery-electric and plug-in hybrid) and Tesla 21,979; BYD was ahead in 4 of them. Counting battery-electric cars only (10 countries), Tesla led: Tesla 13,357, BYD 5,964, with BYD ahead in 2 of those countries. (BYD’s figure for Austria is an estimate.)
What share of new cars in Europe went to Chinese brands in December 2025?
Chinese brands (BYD, MG, Leapmotor, Omoda/Jaecoo, XPeng and others) took 8.9% of new-car registrations in the 12 countries that publish every brand, or 13.0% including Chinese-owned Volvo, Polestar, smart and Lotus. In the 12 countries with data for both years, the share was 8.9% against 4.0% a year earlier.
Which electric car sold best in Europe in December 2025?
The Tesla Model Y, with 9,093 battery-electric registrations in the 9 countries that publish every model (the Netherlands, Sweden, Finland, Germany, Spain, Switzerland, Ireland, Poland and Czechia).
What share of new cars in Europe were electric in December 2025?
Battery-electric cars were 27.2% of new-car registrations across the 16 countries reporting both figures for December 2025. In the 14 countries with data for both years the share was 28.2%, against 20.0% a year earlier.
Which electric car grew fastest in Europe in December 2025?
By added battery-electric registrations year on year, the Skoda Elroq: 7,183 in December 2025, with no battery-electric registrations a year earlier (a new electric model), in the 8 countries that publish every model for both years.

Tesla vs BYD by country

Registrations in December 2025, with the change on December 2024 and the year to date. BYD sells battery-electric cars and plug-in hybrids and Tesla only battery-electric cars, so “BYD BEV” is the like-for-like column.

Monthly trend ↓
Tesla and BYD registrations by country, December 2025
Country Tesla YoY Tesla YTD YTD YoY BYD (all) YoY BYD BEV BYD PHEV Ahead
United Kingdom 6,286 −27% 45,513 −10% 7,682 +467% n/a n/a BYD
Germany 2,032 −48% 19,390 −48% 4,109 >+999% 2,218 1,891 BYD
Italy 2,519 +85% 12,845 −18% 3,347 +427% ≥1,076 ≥1,912 BYD
Spain 1,797 −44% 16,029 −4% 3,200 +138% 2,143 1,057 BYD
Netherlands 4,298 −27% 16,700 −44% 540 +30% 365 175 Tesla
France 1,942 −66% 25,460 −37% n/a – n/a ≥1,797 –
Switzerland 1,570 +76% 6,446 −28% 178 low base 97 75 Tesla
Belgium 1,084 −28% – – 381 +96% n/a n/a Tesla
Poland 1,267 – – – n/a – 682 n/a –
Austria 723 −22% 6,205 −19% 488 +35% 318e n/a Tesla
Sweden 823 −71% 7,254 −67% 33 low base 22 n/a Tesla
Finland 482 −22% 2,618 −30% 106 low base 73 33 Tesla
Czechia 218 −32% 1,943 −48% 107 – 42 65 Tesla
Ireland 147 −38% 2,769 −5% 5 – 4 1 Tesla
Tesla, all 14 countries 25,188 Every figure is a full count. Year to date in 12 countries: 163,172 (−32%).
Tesla, 13 countries with a year-earlier figure 23,921 (−34%) vs 36,043 a year earlier. Up in 2, down in 11.
Tesla vs BYD, 12 countries with every brand 21,979 vs 20,176 All powertrains, only countries whose sources list every brand, so a missing BYD figure is never read as zero. Battery-electric only (10 countries): Tesla 13,357, BYD 5,964.

Why three Tesla totals: each uses only the countries that can answer that question. n/a = the national source does not publish this brand or powertrain. ≥ = minimum from a top-model list. e = estimate. YTD = January to Dec 2025, shown only when every month is available.

Tesla and BYD, monthly, 11-country panel

All powertrains. The same countries every month: the Netherlands, Sweden, Finland, Germany, the United Kingdom, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Ireland and Czechia. Tesla’s deliveries bunch up in the last month of each quarter.

TeslaBYD
Tesla and BYD monthly registrations, January 2024 to December 2025 0 10k 20k 30k ’24’25Dec 25 20,895 19,795

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MonthTeslaBYD
January 20249,6381,414
February 202416,9941,210
March 202424,4831,863
April 20247,9001,556
May 202411,7931,787
June 202428,1762,502
July 20249,4052,470
August 202411,0982,161
September 202428,2822,985
October 20247,1093,323
November 202415,3964,157
December 202428,8154,572
January 20255,5265,173
February 20259,8124,763
March 202518,50512,208
April 20253,6948,442
May 20257,92210,387
June 202520,10311,729
July 20255,01010,061
August 20258,5327,302
September 202522,92121,008
October 20253,12212,897
November 202511,67016,600
December 202520,89519,795

Chinese brands’ share of new cars

“Chinese brands” are brands headquartered or developed in China (BYD, MG, Leapmotor, Omoda/Jaecoo, XPeng, Zeekr and others), the convention JATO and Dataforce use. Volvo, Polestar, smart and Lotus have Chinese owners and are counted separately. Full list.

Monthly share since January 2024, 11-country panel

Share of all new cars in the same countries every month: the Netherlands, Sweden, Finland, Germany, the United Kingdom, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Ireland and Czechia.

Chinese brandsincl. Chinese-owned (Volvo, Polestar, smart, Lotus)
Chinese-brand share of new cars, January 2024 to December 2025 0% 5% 10% 15% ’24’25Dec 25 8.9% 13.0%

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MonthChinese brandsincl. Chinese-owned (Volvo, Polestar, smart, Lotus)
January 20242.7%5.6%
February 20242.5%5.8%
March 20242.8%6.0%
April 20242.7%6.4%
May 20243.2%7.1%
June 20243.3%6.7%
July 20243.4%7.0%
August 20242.8%6.1%
September 20243.1%6.7%
October 20243.3%7.0%
November 20243.6%7.3%
December 20244.0%8.0%
January 20254.0%7.0%
February 20254.3%7.4%
March 20255.3%8.4%
April 20254.8%8.0%
May 20255.7%8.8%
June 20255.7%9.1%
July 20255.5%8.4%
August 20255.4%8.2%
September 20258.0%11.5%
October 20256.6%10.0%
November 20257.5%10.6%
December 20258.9%13.0%

All new cars

8.9% across 12 countries (69,728 of 783,000); 13.0% including Chinese-owned brands.

Chinese-brand share by country, All new cars, December 2025
CountrySharevs 2024YTDLargest Chinese brands
United Kingdom
18.2%
 +11.7 pp 9.7% MG 9,846 · BYD 7,682 · Jaecoo 3,814
Italy
12.3%
 +6.1 pp 7.9% BYD 3,347 · MG 3,277 · Leapmotor 2,394
Spain
11.7%
 +5.5 pp 10.1% BYD 3,200 · MG 3,198 · Ebro 2,143
Belgium
8.1%
 +6.3 pp – MG 1,288 · BYD 381 · Leapmotor 189
Austria
5.9%
 +1.8 pp 4.7% MG 603 · BYD 488 · Leapmotor 127
Czechia
4.8%
 +2.4 pp 3.2% MG 288 · Jaecoo 199 · BAIC 137
Netherlands
4.8%
 +1.4 pp 4.5% BYD 540 · Zeekr 358 · XPeng 344
Switzerland
4.5%
 +3.7 pp 2.7% MG 603 · Leapmotor 181 · BYD 178
Ireland
4.3%
 +3.6 pp 3.4% BYD 5 · MG 4 · XPeng 2
Germany
3.5%
 +2.2 pp 2.2% BYD 4,109 · MG 2,852 · Leapmotor 851
Finland
3.0%
 +2.0 pp 1.9% BYD 106 · MG 34 · XPeng 15
Sweden
2.5%
 −0.1 pp 2.4% Lynk & Co 218 · Zeekr 116 · XPeng 100

Battery-electric cars only

8.7% across 10 countries (11,551 of 132,988); 16.9% including Chinese-owned brands.

Chinese-brand share by country, Battery-electric cars only, December 2025
CountrySharevs 2024YTDLargest Chinese brands
Spain
26.6%
 +11.5 pp 20.9% BYD 2,143 · Leapmotor 342 · XPeng 159
Poland
20.7%
 – – BYD 682 · Leapmotor 394 · Geely 321
Austria
10.7%
 +1.7 pp 10.7% BYD 318 · Leapmotor 81 · XPeng 44 (est.)
Czechia
8.2%
 +2.6 pp 3.9% BYD 42 · MG 24 · Leapmotor 23
Germany
6.7%
 +3.7 pp 5.7% BYD 2,218 · Leapmotor 729 · XPeng 426
Ireland
6.4%
 +5.8 pp 9.7% MG 4 · BYD 4 · XPeng 2
Switzerland
6.4%
 +5.5 pp 4.6% Leapmotor 163 · JAC 114 · BYD 97
Netherlands
5.2%
 −1.2 pp 7.0% BYD 365 · Zeekr 358 · XPeng 344
Finland
4.3%
 +2.5 pp 4.0% BYD 73 · MG 25 · XPeng 15
Sweden
3.5%
 −1.9 pp 4.1% Zeekr 116 · XPeng 100 · Nio 60

Best-selling electric models

Battery-electric registrations summed over the 9 countries that publish every model (the Netherlands, Sweden, Finland, Germany, Spain, Switzerland, Ireland, Poland and Czechia). Countries that publish only a top 10 are not added here, so no model gets a partial count. They are in the wider ranking below.

Top battery-electric models, December 2025
ModelBEV registrationsYoYMoMLargest markets
1Tesla Model Y
9,093
 −30% +237% NL 3,463 · CH 1,367 · DE 1,328
2Skoda Elroq
7,397
 new +22% NL 3,060 · DE 2,895 · CH 552
3Volkswagen ID.7
5,118
 +55% +2% DE 2,934 · NL 1,161 · SE 696
4Volkswagen ID.3
4,510
 +108% +15% DE 2,844 · NL 724 · SE 487
5BMW iX1/X1
4,346
 +64% +46% DE 2,604 · NL 849 · SE 265
6Skoda Enyaq
3,981
 +5% +3% DE 1,999 · NL 789 · CH 448
7Volkswagen ID.4/ID.5
3,475
 +13% +5% NL 1,261 · DE 1,146 · SE 418
8Tesla Model 3
3,434
 −50% −11% ES 963 · NL 823 · DE 674
9Audi A6 e-tron/A6
3,182
 low base +19% DE 2,137 · NL 584 · PL 198
10Kia EV3
3,122
 +191% −3% NL 1,277 · DE 663 · SE 521
11Volvo EX40/XC40
2,940
 +173% +75% SE 1,222 · NL 1,107 · DE 342
12Volvo EX30
2,858
 +9% +55% NL 1,394 · SE 439 · CH 383
13Audi Q6 e-tron
2,845
 +89% +25% DE 1,714 · NL 411 · PL 302
14Mercedes-Benz CLA
2,816
 new −4% DE 1,572 · NL 444 · PL 247
15Audi Q4 e-tron
2,813
 +21% +36% NL 1,001 · DE 754 · PL 369
16Cupra Tavascan
2,583
 +127% +21% DE 1,853 · NL 362 · CH 297
17Renault 5
2,177
 +64% +8% NL 862 · DE 515 · PL 234
18Ford Explorer
2,113
 +83% +9% DE 1,280 · NL 425 · PL 178
19BYD Dolphin SurfCN
1,994
 new +37% DE 715 · ES 697 · PL 425
20Polestar 4
1,931
 +163% +158% SE 828 · DE 588 · NL 235
21BMW i5/5 Series
1,925
 +53% +19% DE 1,438 · NL 250 · SE 119
22Cupra Born
1,911
 −20% −2% DE 1,202 · NL 272 · CH 201
23Citroën C3/C3 Aircross
1,893
 +308% +27% DE 625 · ES 418 · PL 397
24BMW i4/4 Series
1,738
 +10% −1% DE 1,193 · NL 275 · SE 84
25Mini All models (not itemised)
1,696
 +54% +2% DE 1,696

Wider ranking, including top-10 lists

Adds the top-10 battery-electric lists published in France and Italy. A model outside a country’s top 10 gets nothing from that country, so these are minimums.

  1. 1Tesla Model Y ≥11,174
  2. 2Renault 5 ≥8,856
  3. 3Skoda Elroq ≥7,397
  4. 4BMW iX1/X1 ≥5,848
  5. 5Volkswagen ID.7 ≥5,118
  6. 6Tesla Model 3 ≥5,070
  7. 7Volkswagen ID.3 ≥4,510
  8. 8Skoda Enyaq ≥3,981
  9. 9Citroën C3/C3 Aircross ≥3,788
  10. 10Volkswagen ID.4/ID.5 ≥3,475

Fastest-growing BEV models, year on year

Ranked by registrations added vs December 2024, in the same 8 countries. Models with at least 300 registrations this month.

Fastest-growing BEV models, year on year
ModelNowBeforeAddedChange
Skoda Elroq 7,183 0 +7,183 new
Audi A6 e-tron/A6 2,984 65 +2,919 low base
Mercedes-Benz CLA 2,569 0 +2,569 new
Volkswagen ID.3 4,385 2,106 +2,279 +108%
Kia EV3 3,001 1,031 +1,970 +191%
Volvo EX40/XC40 2,939 1,078 +1,861 +173%
Volkswagen ID.7 5,030 3,250 +1,780 +55%
BMW iX1/X1 4,165 2,535 +1,630 +64%
BYD Dolphin SurfCN 1,569 0 +1,569 new
Cupra Tavascan 2,561 1,130 +1,431 +127%

Fastest-growing BEV models, month on month

Ranked by registrations added vs the previous month, in the same 9 countries. Models with at least 300 registrations this month.

Fastest-growing BEV models, month on month
ModelNowBeforeAddedChange
Tesla Model Y 9,093 2,695 +6,398 +237%
BMW iX1/X1 4,346 2,972 +1,374 +46%
Skoda Elroq 7,397 6,074 +1,323 +22%
Volvo EX40/XC40 2,940 1,677 +1,263 +75%
Polestar 4 1,931 748 +1,183 +158%
Volvo EX30 2,858 1,843 +1,015 +55%
Toyota bZ4X 1,061 261 +800 +307%
Audi Q4 e-tron 2,813 2,070 +743 +36%
Volkswagen ID.3 4,510 3,931 +579 +15%
Audi Q6 e-tron 2,845 2,285 +560 +25%

Top battery-electric models by country

Netherlands

  1. 1Tesla Model Y3,463
  2. 2Skoda Elroq3,060
  3. 3Volvo EX301,394
  4. 4Kia EV31,277
  5. 5Volkswagen ID.4/ID.51,261
  6. 6Volkswagen ID.71,161
  7. 7Volvo EX40/XC401,107
  8. 8Audi Q4 e-tron1,001
  9. 9Renault 5862
  10. 10BMW iX1/X1849

Sweden

  1. 1Volvo EX40/XC401,222
  2. 2Polestar 4828
  3. 3Volkswagen ID.7696
  4. 4Tesla Model Y602
  5. 5Kia EV3521
  6. 6Volkswagen ID.3487
  7. 7Volvo EX30439
  8. 8Volkswagen ID.4/ID.5418
  9. 9Kia EV9271
  10. 10BMW iX1/X1265

Finland

  1. 1Tesla Model Y348
  2. 2Skoda Enyaq167
  3. 3Skoda Elroq156
  4. 4Polestar 4146
  5. 5smart #5139
  6. 6Volkswagen ID.4/ID.5137
  7. 7Volkswagen ID.7135
  8. 8Audi Q4 e-tron132
  9. 9Tesla Model 3126
  10. 10Mercedes-Benz CLA107

Germany

  1. 1Volkswagen ID.72,934
  2. 2Skoda Elroq2,895
  3. 3Volkswagen ID.32,844
  4. 4BMW iX1/X12,604
  5. 5Audi A6 e-tron/A62,137
  6. 6Skoda Enyaq1,999
  7. 7Cupra Tavascan1,853
  8. 8Audi Q6 e-tron1,714
  9. 9Mini All models (not itemised)1,696
  10. 10Mercedes-Benz CLA1,572

France

Top-N only
  1. 1Renault 56,462
  2. 2Peugeot 2081,913
  3. 3Peugeot 20081,718
  4. 4Renault Scenic1,693
  5. 5Citroën C3/C3 Aircross1,583
  6. 6Renault 41,542
  7. 7Mini All models (not itemised)1,402
  8. 8Dacia Spring1,239
  9. 9Tesla Model Y1,224
  10. 10BMW iX1/X11,173

Spain

  1. 1Tesla Model 3963
  2. 2Tesla Model Y830
  3. 3BYD Dolphin Surf697
  4. 4BYD Atto 2437
  5. 5Citroën C3/C3 Aircross418
  6. 6Kia EV3399
  7. 7BYD Seal390
  8. 8Jeep Avenger345
  9. 9BYD Atto 3240
  10. 10Dacia Spring238

Italy

Top-N only
  1. 1Leapmotor T032,218
  2. 2Tesla Model 31,636
  3. 3BYD Dolphin Surf1,076
  4. 4Tesla Model Y857
  5. 5Ford Puma359
  6. 6Dacia Spring344
  7. 7BMW iX1/X1329
  8. 8Citroën C3/C3 Aircross312
  9. 9Porsche Macan229
  10. 10Renault 5217

Switzerland

  1. 1Tesla Model Y1,367
  2. 2Skoda Elroq552
  3. 3Skoda Enyaq448
  4. 4Nissan Ariya411
  5. 5Volvo EX30383
  6. 6Cupra Tavascan297
  7. 7Toyota Urban Cruiser273
  8. 8Audi Q4 e-tron225
  9. 9Toyota bZ4X222
  10. 10Cupra Born201

Ireland

  1. 1Tesla Model Y89
  2. 2Tesla Model 358
  3. 3Kia EV55
  4. 4MG MG44
  5. 5BYD Sealion 73
  6. 6Kia EV43
  7. 7XPeng G62
  8. 8Audi Q4 e-tron1
  9. 9BYD Dolphin Surf1
  10. 10Citroën Ami1

Poland

  1. 1Tesla Model Y924
  2. 2BYD Dolphin Surf425
  3. 3Citroën C3/C3 Aircross397
  4. 4Audi Q4 e-tron369
  5. 5Tesla Model 3339
  6. 6Geely EX5321
  7. 7Audi Q6 e-tron302
  8. 8Mercedes-Benz EQA/GLA292
  9. 9Mercedes-Benz CLA247
  10. 10Renault 5234

Czechia

  1. 1Skoda Enyaq204
  2. 2Skoda Elroq197
  3. 3Tesla Model Y142
  4. 4Tesla Model 368
  5. 5Mercedes-Benz CLA39
  6. 6Volvo EX3038
  7. 7Ford Puma30
  8. 8Dacia Spring27
  9. 9Mazda 6e/626
  10. 10Ford Explorer24

Brand league table

Summed over the countries that publish every brand. The year-on-year change compares the same countries in both years.

128,367 battery-electric cars in 9 countries: NL, SE, FI, DE, ES, CH, IE, PL, CZ. Shares are of the brand tables’ sum, which in Italy runs about 1% below the market total. Year-on-year changes use the 8 of them with a full brand list in both years. Tesla’s figure here covers only these countries; Tesla vs BYD has every country.

Brands by registrations, battery-electric cars, December 2025
BrandGroupRegistrationsShareYoY
1Volkswagen Volkswagen Group
14,428
 11.2% +54%
2Tesla
12,634
 9.8% −37%
3Skoda Volkswagen Group
11,381
 8.9% +196%
4BMW BMW Group
10,139
 7.9% +48%
5Audi Volkswagen Group
8,954
 7.0% +123%
6VolvoCN-owned Geely Holding
6,870
 5.3% +47%
7Mercedes-Benz Mercedes-Benz Group
6,603
 5.1% +27%
8Kia Hyundai Motor Group
5,927
 4.6% +115%
9BYDCN
5,646
 4.4% +209%
10Cupra Volkswagen Group
4,498
 3.5% +28%
11Renault Renault Group
4,468
 3.5% +61%
12Ford
4,330
 3.4% +114%
13Mini BMW Group
3,226
 2.5% +38%
14Hyundai Hyundai Motor Group
3,143
 2.5% +19%
15Opel Stellantis
3,042
 2.4% +302%
16PolestarCN-owned Geely Holding
2,714
 2.1% +39%
17Fiat Stellantis
2,344
 1.8% +406%
18Citroën Stellantis
2,146
 1.7% +209%
19Peugeot Stellantis
1,928
 1.5% +145%
20LeapmotorCN
1,919
 1.5% +482%
21Toyota
1,487
 1.2% +266%
22Dacia Renault Group
1,177
 0.9% −7%
23XPengCN
1,123
 0.9% +124%
24smartCN-owned smart Automobile (Mercedes-Benz/Geely JV)
1,068
 0.8% +20%
25Porsche Volkswagen Group
942
 0.7% −45%
26Mazda
822
 0.6% low base
27Nissan
789
 0.6% +87%
28MGCN SAIC
586
 0.5% −36%
29ZeekrCN Geely Holding
538
 0.4% +53%
30Jeep Stellantis
511
 0.4% +250%

Country by country

New passenger cars and battery-electric share, with each figure’s source and the date it entered this compilation.

Registrations by country, December 2025
CountryNew carsYoYBEVBEV shareBEV YoYPHEVSource · first in
Netherlands 48,072 +30% 31,313
65.1%
 +79% 4,570 RDW · 2026-09-23
Norway 35,156 +158% 34,311
97.6%
 +194% – Statistics Norway (SSB); Opplysningsrådet for veitrafikken (OFV) · 2026-09-23
Sweden 23,877 −9% 10,290
43.1%
 −4% 6,081 Mobility Sweden · 2026-09-23
Denmark 18,525 +6% 14,948
80.7%
 +39% 437 Mobility Denmark; Danmarks Statistik · 2026-09-23
Finland 5,548 −12% 2,956
53.3%
 +27% 876 Traficom (Finnish Transport and Communications Agency) · 2026-09-23
Germany 246,439 +10% 54,774
22.2%
 +63% 30,259 Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt (KBA) · 2026-09-23
United Kingdom 146,249 +4% 47,139
32.2%
 +8% 16,898 SMMT · 2026-09-23
France 172,927 −6% 42,568
24.6%
 +44% 17,486 Avere-France; PFA (Plateforme automobile) · 2026-09-23
Spain 103,249 −1% 11,372
11.0%
 +27% 12,356 Dirección General de Tráfico (DGT) · 2026-09-23
Italy 109,626 +2% 12,078
11.0%
 +106% 10,186 UNRAE · 2026-09-23
Belgium 28,877 +23% –
–
 – – FEBIAC · 2026-09-23
Switzerland 26,744 +6% 8,584
32.1%
 +53% 3,016 auto-schweiz (data: ASTRA/OFROU, MOFIS register) · 2026-09-23
Austria 22,376 +3% 4,621
20.6%
 +8% – Statistik Austria · 2026-09-23
Portugal 20,879 – 5,596e
26.8%
 – – ACAP · 2026-09-23
Ireland 276 −35% 171
62.0%
 −42% 20 SIMI (Society of the Irish Motor Industry) · 2026-09-24
Poland 62,884 – 7,688
12.2%
 – – Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji (CEPiK) · 2026-09-24
Czechia 21,667 +21% 1,219
5.6%
 +25% 1,244 SDA (Svaz dovozců automobilů) · 2026-09-23

e = estimate. n/c = not compared: the source’s total for one of the two months disagrees with the national headline by more than 2%. Belgium publishes no battery-electric count that can be fetched automatically.

Battery-electric share of new cars, monthly, 11-country panel

11-country panel (the Netherlands, Sweden, Finland, Germany, the United Kingdom, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Ireland and Czechia), the same countries every month.

BEV share of new cars, January 2024 to December 2025 0% 10% 20% 30% ’24’25Dec 25 24.5%

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MonthBEV share of new cars
January 202410.5%
February 202411.4%
March 202412.6%
April 202411.7%
May 202412.5%
June 202414.7%
July 202412.7%
August 202415.2%
September 202417.5%
October 202414.9%
November 202416.5%
December 202418.8%
January 202515.3%
February 202515.7%
March 202515.8%
April 202515.8%
May 202516.3%
June 202518.2%
July 202516.4%
August 202518.8%
September 202519.4%
October 202518.7%
November 202521.3%
December 202524.5%

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CSV December 2025 (this edition) Totals, brands and models by powertrain for every reporting country. CSV Brands, every month Country × brand × month since 2023: all fuels, BEV and PHEV. CSV Market totals, every month Country × month: new cars, BEV, PHEV, BEV share, flags. CSV Brand classification Group and Chinese-brand tier for every brand.

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Methodology

What is counted. New passenger cars (M1) registered for the first time in each country during the calendar month, as published by that country’s registration authority or industry association. Used imports are excluded where the source separates them. Figures are not seasonally adjusted.

Powertrains. BEV = battery-electric only. PHEV = plug-in hybrids, including range-extender cars, following ACEA’s convention. Full and mild hybrids are not PHEV. “All” covers every fuel.

Same-country comparisons. Countries publish on different days and in different detail. Every total, share and year-on-year change on this page uses only the countries that have the needed figure in both periods, and says how many. Brand totals come from a source’s brand table or its complete model list. Top-10 lists appear per country and as minimums, and are never added into full totals. A month whose source total disagrees with the national headline by more than 2% is not used for year-on-year comparisons.

Names. Registries spell brands and models differently: KBA lists “ID.4, ID.5” together, RDW lists trade names. A published alias table maps them to one name. Where one registry merges two models, the pair keeps one combined name everywhere (for example “ID.4/ID.5”, “iX1/X1”), so the car is counted in one row. Models a registry files under another brand (Cupra under SEAT, Genesis under Hyundai at KBA) are moved to their own brand.

Revisions. Sources are rechecked three times a day until the 16th of the following month, when the edition becomes final. Later changes are listed under Corrections. First figures can move by a few units as late registrations arrive, especially at RDW and DGT.

Why totals differ from ACEA. This page covers the countries listed below, not EU-27 + EFTA + UK. ACEA publishes three to four weeks later and has no model breakdown. Country totals match each national headline to within about 1%, except where the notes below say otherwise. Spain (DGT microdata) and Poland (CEPiK register) use official register counts, which differ slightly from the industry associations’ headlines. Italy’s brand table (the national vehicle archive) runs about 1% below UNRAE’s market total.

Sources

Data source for each country
CountryPublisher and datasetLicenceReleasedDetailHistoryNotes
Netherlands RDWOpen Data RDW: Gekentekende voertuigen (m9d7-ebf2) + Brandstof (8ys7-d773) CC0 1.0 Updated daily; month complete on day 1–2 of M+1 Models (BEV): full
Brands: full		 2024-01
33 months		 New passenger-car registrations. Counted from the vehicle register: cars first admitted and first registered in the Netherlands in the month (used imports excluded). RDW updates daily, so counts can run ~1% above the BOVAG/RAI headline published on the 1st because of late registrations. RDW's 'Personenauto' class also holds a few motorhomes, ambulances and hearses built on car chassis (about 0.5% of the count); they cannot be separated and are included.
Norway Statistics Norway (SSB); Opplysningsrådet for veitrafikken (OFV)SSB table 14020 (new vehicles by fuel group) + OFV Bilsalget / statistikk (top models) CC BY 4.0 (OFV); NLOD 2.0 (SSB) OFV on the 1st working day of M+1; SSB table 14020 a few days later Models (BEV): none
Brands: none		 2024-01
33 months		 New passenger-car registrations. Totals are Statistics Norway's (table 14020, new cars only, used imports excluded). BEV is SSB's 'electric/zero-emission' group, which also holds the few hydrogen cars. SSB's totals are checked against OFV's published monthly totals (export.json and OFV's monthly articles). They agree within 0.1% for most months, and the BEV shares agree to 0.1 point. Where SSB is more than 2% below OFV (May 2025 −2.8%, August 2025 −10.2%), the month is flagged as suspect and is not used as a year-on-year base. The totals are not replaced with OFV's, so the series stays one source. Norway has no free monthly plug-in-hybrid total: SSB groups plug-in and full hybrids together, so PHEV is left blank. Model figures are OFV's top-30 models (ranked by year-to-date registrations) with their monthly count, for all fuels; the market is ~98% battery-electric but the list is not split by fuel. OFV shows only the latest month and keeps no archive, so model figures exist only for months captured when they were current. Earlier months carry totals only.
Sweden Mobility SwedenMånadsrapport Nyregistreringar (monthly new-registration workbook) No licence stated 1st working day of M+1 Models (BEV): full
Brands: full		 2024-01
33 months		 New passenger-car registrations. Mobility Sweden counts new cars only; Trafikanalys' official figure also includes used imports and runs a few percent higher. BEV by model is complete (every model). PHEV by model is only available for January–February 2024; later workbooks publish the PHEV total only. Model names follow Mobility Sweden's groupings, e.g. 'VOLVO EX/XC40' and 'VW ID.7/ID.7 TOURER' are single rows.
Denmark Mobility Denmark; Danmarks StatistikMobility Denmark Nyregistreringer (models, brands, fuel split); DST BIL53 (totals) No licence stated (Mobility Denmark); CC BY 4.0 (Danmarks Statistik) Mobility Denmark on the 1st working day of M+1; DST BIL53 around the 9th Models (BEV): none
Brands: full		 2024-01
32 months		 New passenger-car registrations. Model and brand figures are for all fuels; Mobility Denmark does not split models by powertrain, so Denmark has no BEV-by-model figures. Mobility Denmark only shows the two latest months, so brand and model figures exist only for months captured while they were current. Earlier months carry Danmarks Statistik totals only. Danmarks Statistik counts about 0.3% more new cars than Mobility Denmark.
Finland Traficom (Finnish Transport and Communications Agency)Traficom statistics database: 050_ensirek_tau_105 – first registrations of passenger cars by model series, fuel and month CC BY 4.0 Table updated in the first working days of M+1 (Aug 2026 data: 4 Sep 2026) Models (BEV): full
Brands: full		 2024-01
32 months		 New passenger-car registrations. First registrations of new passenger cars in mainland Finland (Traficom register; Åland's separate register is not included), matching the Traficom/aut.fi headline. Motorhomes (M1 camper vans) are counted in the total but not attributed to brands; they are shown with 'Other brands (not itemised)'. PHEV = petrol/electric + diesel/electric plug-in hybrids; Traficom has no separate range-extender code.
Germany Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt (KBA)FZ10 – Neuzulassungen von Personenkraftwagen nach Marken und Modellreihen DL-DE/BY-2.0 Headline ~3rd working day; model table (FZ10) ~5th working day of M+1 Models (BEV): full
Brands: full		 2023-01
44 months		 New passenger-car registrations. KBA groups some models into one series (e.g. 'ID.4, ID.5'); they are kept together. Brands without a model breakdown appear as 'Other brands (not itemised)'.
United Kingdom SMMTSMMT new car registrations: monthly news release and marque table (Cars_MM_YYYY) SMMT copyright; figures may be quoted with attribution ~5th working day of M+1, 09:00 UK Models (BEV): top
Brands: full		 2024-01
33 months		 New passenger-car registrations. SMMT publishes every marque but only a top 10 of models (overall, and in some months a top 10 BEV); UK-wide BEV and PHEV figures by marque are not published. For January–October 2024, BEV and PHEV totals are taken from the prior-year column of SMMT's release for the same month in 2025.
France Avere-France; PFA (Plateforme automobile)Avere-France baromètre mensuel des immatriculations (Avere/Colombus, données AAA Data) + PFA Flash marché mensuel (données AAA Data) No licence stated (published press material; attribution customary) PFA: 1st working day of M+1; Avere barometer: first days of M+1 Models (BEV): top
Brands: top		 2024-01
32 months		 New passenger-car registrations. BEV passenger cars are the sum of the regional passenger-car column of Avere's barometer; the market total and brands come from PFA's monthly Flash (AAA Data). PFA itemises about 40 brands; the rest (including BYD, MG and other Chinese brands) are grouped under 'Other brands (not itemised)'. PHEV is plug-in hybrid passenger cars only: Avere's headline PHEV figure covers cars and vans, and the barometer also prints the number of vans in it (a few dozen to several hundred a month), which is taken out. Models are Avere's top 10 BEV and top 10 PHEV passenger cars.
Spain Dirección General de Tráfico (DGT)Microdatos de matriculaciones (MATRABA): export_mensual_mat_YYYYMM DGT open data (reuse under Ley 37/2007, source must be cited) Monthly microdata on the 15th of M+1; daily files the next day (used for a preliminary month before the 15th) Models (BEV): full
Brands: full		 2024-01
33 months		 New passenger-car registrations. Counted from DGT's vehicle-level registration records: new vehicles (IND_NUEVO_USADO = 'N') of DGT type 40 'turismo'; used imports are excluded. BEV and PHEV follow the record's electric-vehicle category; range extenders (REEV) are counted as PHEV, and full hybrids (HEV) as neither. DGT counts run about 1–3% above the ANFAC figures in the press, which come from ANFAC's own registration data (August 2026: 69,400 vs 68,544 cars, 9,450 vs 9,199 BEV). Brand and model are the homologation strings (MARCA_ITV, MODELO_ITV); DGT cuts the model at 22 characters, so trim levels and truncated names are merged at normalisation.
Italy UNRAEUNRAE – Dati statistici, immatricolazioni (struttura del mercato, per marca, top 10 per alimentazione, top 50, BEV/PHEV per marca) No licence stated (UNRAE copyright; citation customary) 1st working day of M+1 (evening) Models (BEV): top
Brands: full		 2024-01
33 months		 New passenger-car registrations. Totals come from UNRAE's market-structure table (Metodo UNRAE). UNRAE's brand table uses the national vehicle archive and can total ~1% lower. UNRAE counts range extenders (REx) with plug-in hybrids. Models are UNRAE's top 10 per fuel (BEV, PHEV) and top 50 overall; brand figures by BEV and PHEV exist from May 2026.
Belgium FEBIACImmatriculations mensuelles de voitures et voitures mixtes par marque (fr_mon_brand.xls); data: SPF Mobilité & Transports (DIV) No licence stated (FEBIAC; reproduction with source credit) 1st–2nd working day of M+1 Models (BEV): none
Brands: full		 2024-01
26 months		 New passenger-car registrations. Brand totals only: FEBIAC publishes no model or fuel breakdown in this file. BEV and PHEV are not available as counts from a free Belgian source that can be fetched automatically, so Belgium has no BEV/PHEV figures. Counts cars and mixed-use cars (voitures mixtes), as in FEBIAC's headline. FEBIAC replaces the file every month; months whose file was not kept online cannot be fetched.
Switzerland auto-schweiz (data: ASTRA/OFROU, MOFIS register)auto-schweiz monthly files MOFISPW (brands, fuel totals), ModellePW (models, YTD) and Stecker_PW_LNF (plug-in cars by model and fuel) No licence stated (figures credited as 'auto-schweiz / ASTRA-MOFIS') 1st working day of M+1 Models (BEV): full
Brands: full		 2023-01
45 months		 New passenger-car registrations. Switzerland and Liechtenstein combined (the MOFIS register covers both). Brand and model totals for all fuels are month-to-month differences of auto-schweiz's year-to-date model table; Seat and Cupra are published as one brand. BEV and PHEV model rows come from the plug-in list, which is about 1% short of the official BEV total, mostly direct imports. Brands that sell only battery-electric cars (Tesla, Polestar, smart, Zeekr, XPeng, NIO, Lucid and a few others) are counted in full from the all-fuel model table, and the difference is taken out of the gap. The remaining gap is shown as 'Other brands (not itemised)'. PHEV includes range extenders.
Austria Statistik AustriaKfz-Statistik: OGD Pkw-Neuzulassungen nach Marken; press release Tabelle 1; DE1 Pkw-Neuzulassungen nach Marke und CO2-Emission CC BY 4.0 7th–10th working day of M+1 Models (BEV): none
Brands: full		 2024-01
32 months		 New passenger-car registrations. Brand totals are counted; BEV by brand is an estimate derived from each brand's average CO2 with and without electric cars, and is good to a few percent per brand. Statistik Austria does not separate plug-in hybrids from other hybrids, so Austria has no PHEV figure. No model-level data is published.
Portugal ACAPMatrículas de Veículos Automóveis por Marca (Lig. Passageiros) + por Tipo de Energia; data: IMT/AT No licence stated (ACAP; citation required) 1st working day of M+1 Models (BEV): none
Brands: full		 2025-09
13 months		 New passenger-car registrations. Passenger cars include ambulances ('Ligeiros de Passageiros e Ambulâncias'), as in ACAP's headline. BEV and PHEV are passenger-car-only figures from ACAP's energy table; PHEV = PHEV/Gasolina + PHEV/Gasóleo. ACAP publishes no brand × fuel split for passenger cars alone and no model data. ACAP only keeps the current month's files online; earlier months come from ACAP press releases and have totals only.
Ireland SIMI (Society of the Irish Motor Industry)SIMI Motorstats – new passenger cars (Total New Registrations) by make, model and engine type No licence stated; © SIMI, quoted with attribution 1st working day of M+1 (SIMI press release); the database is revised afterwards Models (BEV): full
Brands: full		 2024-01
33 months		 New passenger-car registrations. Registrations as reported by SIMI, the figures ACEA and Irish media use. Until September 2026 this page used CSO table TEM28 (new private cars licensed for the first time), which differs from SIMI by month (August 2026: CSO 10,924 cars vs SIMI 7,791). SIMI's database is live, so a month can move by a few units after the press release as late registrations and corrections arrive. 'Electric' is counted as BEV; 'Petrol/Plug-In Electric Hybrid' and 'Diesel/Plug-In Electric Hybrid' as PHEV. Non-plug-in hybrids are in neither.
Poland Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji (CEPiK)API CEPiK: /pojazdy (vehicles by date of first registration in Poland) CC BY 4.0 Register updated daily; month complete a few days into M+1 Models (BEV): full
Brands: none		 2025-08
14 months		 New passenger-car registrations (BEV by model; total for all powertrains). Counted from the CEPiK vehicle register: passenger cars first registered in Poland in the month whose origin is 'new bought in Poland' or 'new individual import'; used imports are excluded. Only battery-electric cars are itemised by model. CEPiK has no plug-in hybrid flag, so Poland has no PHEV figure. The register is read later than the PZPM/Samar figures, which also come from CEPiK, and includes individual imports of new cars, so it runs a few percent higher (August 2026 BEV: 2,273 vs 2,189, +3.8%). CEPiK leaves the brand empty for makes missing from its brand list (e.g. Leapmotor, Xpeng, Omoda); these are filled from unambiguous model names, and the rest are shown as an unknown brand.
Czechia SDA (Svaz dovozců automobilů)Registrace nových OA v ČR (palOAm, ptOAm, hybrOAm); data: Registr silničních vozidel MD ČR No licence stated (SDA copyright; citation required) 1st–3rd working day of M+1 Models (BEV): full
Brands: full		 2024-01
32 months		 New passenger-car registrations. Counts all new M1 registrations, including motorhomes on an M1 base (e.g. Adria, Bürstner), exactly as SDA's headline does. PHEV = SDA's plug-in hybrid and range-extender categories; full and mild hybrids are not included. Model rows that SDA lists with a brand only appear as 'Model not specified'.

Chinese brand classification

Tier 1, “Chinese brands” (the headline figure): brands headquartered or developed in China. That includes European companies that sell rebadged Chinese cars (DR, Evo, Ebro, Sportequipe) and Lynk & Co. Tier 2, “Chinese-owned”: European-heritage brands controlled by a Chinese group. Dropping the rebadgers and Lynk & Co moves the headline share by a few tenths of a point. The list is versioned in the classification CSV.

Tier 1: Chinese brands

Aiways, BAIC, BAW, BYD, Baojun, Bestune, CFMoto, Changan, Chery, DR, Deepal, Denza, Dongfeng, Ebro, Elaris, Evo, Firefly, Forthing, GAC, GWM, Geely, HDK, HiPhi, Hisun, Hongqi, JAC, Jaecoo, Jetour, Joyear, Kandi, Leapmotor, Li Auto, Livan, Luxeed, Lvtong, Lynk & Co, MG, Maxus, Mhero, Neta, Nio, Omoda, Omoda/Jaecoo, SWM, Seres, Shineray, Skywell, Skyworth, Sportequipe, Today Sunshine, Voyah, XPeng, Xiaomi, Yudo, Yunlong, Zeekr, Zhidou

Tier 2: Chinese-owned groups

LEVC, Lotus, Polestar, Volvo, smart

EU tariff timeline

  • 5 July 2024: provisional countervailing duties on battery-electric cars built in China.
  • 31 October 2024: definitive duties in force for five years (Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/2754): BYD 17.0%, Geely 18.8%, SAIC 35.3%, Tesla (Shanghai) 7.8%, other cooperating makers 20.7%, all on top of the 10% import duty. Plug-in hybrids are not covered.
  • 10 February 2026: the Commission accepts the first minimum-price undertaking in place of duties (Volkswagen Anhui’s Cupra Tavascan).

Corrections and revisions

  • 2026-09-24 · 2024-01 to 2026-08 IE: Ireland switched from CSO figures for cars licensed for the first time to SIMI new-car registrations (the figures ACEA uses). August 2026 changes from 10,924 cars / 3,763 BEV to 7,788 / 2,261; every Irish month since January 2024 is restated.

For journalists

Compiled by Jan at evstats.org. For a comment, a custom cut (one brand across all countries, a different country set) or to report an error, email info@evstats.org. This edition was compiled on 23 September 2026 from national figures that were already final.

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