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April 2026 edition 16 countries Final figures, compiled retrospectively

Tesla, BYD and Europe’s best-selling EVs: April 2026

Tesla registered 8,479 cars in the 13 countries with a Tesla figure for April 2026. In the 12 countries with a year-earlier figure it was up 81% (8,263 vs 4,557): up in 10, down in 2. BYD (battery-electric and plug-in hybrid) outsold Tesla in 9 of the 11 countries that publish every brand: 21,537 BYD vs 6,434 Tesla. Counting battery-electric cars only, in 10 countries: Tesla 5,397, BYD 5,400 (BYD's figure for Austria is an estimate).

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Battery-electric cars 234,058 +40% YoY in 14 countries Total of 16 countries
BEV share of new cars 23.5% 18.0% a year earlier Same 14 countries in both years
Chinese brands’ share 10.1% 4.8% a year earlier (same 11) All new cars, 11 countries · definition
BYD vs Tesla BYD21,537 Tesla6,434 BYD ahead in 9 of the 11 countries that publish every brand
16 countries in this edition
  • Netherlands 38% BEV
  • Norway 99% BEV
  • Sweden 41% BEV
  • Denmark 81% BEV
  • Finland 49% BEV
  • Germany 26% BEV
  • United Kingdom 26% BEV
  • France 26% BEV
  • Spain 9% BEV
  • Italy 8% BEV
  • Belgium no data
  • Switzerland 25% BEV
  • Austria 26% BEV
  • Portugal 23% BEV
  • Ireland 27% BEV
  • Poland 5% BEV
  • Czechia 8% BEV

April 2026 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 April 2026?
Tesla registered 8,479 cars in the 13 countries covered here that have a Tesla figure for April 2026. In the 12 countries with a year-earlier figure, Tesla was up 81% (8,263 vs 4,557): up in 10, down in 2. Year to date in 12 countries: 67,119 (+49%).
Did BYD outsell Tesla in Europe in April 2026?
Yes, counting all powertrains. In the 11 countries that publish every brand, BYD registered 21,537 cars (battery-electric and plug-in hybrid) and Tesla 6,434; BYD was ahead in 9 of them. BYD’s 21,537 in those countries alone is more than Tesla’s 8,479 across all 13 countries. Counting battery-electric cars only (10 countries), the two were about level: Tesla 5,397, BYD 5,400, with BYD ahead in 5 of those countries. (BYD’s figure for Austria is an estimate.)
What share of new cars in Europe went to Chinese brands in April 2026?
Chinese brands (BYD, MG, Leapmotor, Omoda/Jaecoo, XPeng and others) took 10.1% of new-car registrations in the 11 countries that publish every brand, or 13.0% including Chinese-owned Volvo, Polestar, smart and Lotus. In the 11 countries with data for both years, the share was 10.1% against 4.8% a year earlier.
Which electric car sold best in Europe in April 2026?
The Skoda Elroq, with 5,463 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 April 2026?
Battery-electric cars were 22.6% of new-car registrations across the 16 countries reporting both figures for April 2026. In the 14 countries with data for both years the share was 23.5%, against 18.0% a year earlier.
Which electric car grew fastest in Europe in April 2026?
By added battery-electric registrations year on year, the Mercedes-Benz CLA: 3,200 in April 2026 against 76 a year earlier, in the 8 countries that publish every model for both years.

Tesla vs BYD by country

Registrations in April 2026, with the change on April 2025 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, April 2026
Country Tesla YoY Tesla YTD YTD YoY BYD (all) YoY BYD BEV BYD PHEV Ahead
Germany 3,149 +256% 15,978 +175% 4,705 +200% 1,875 2,830 BYD
United Kingdom 831 +62% 12,570 −3% 5,059 +102% n/a n/a BYD
Italy 422 −5% 4,841 +24% 4,572 +172% ≥508 ≥3,602 BYD
Spain 301 −48% 4,836 +29% 4,039 +161% 1,568 2,471 BYD
France 1,829 +112% 15,774 +109% n/a – n/a ≥1,532 –
Austria 248 +27% 2,616 +74% 1,243 +116% 917e n/a BYD
Netherlands 468 +23% 3,136 −18% 483 +80% 166 316 BYD
Switzerland 261 +16% 1,245 −15% 555 low base 222 326 BYD
Sweden 429 +111% 3,278 +54% 255 low base 34 n/a Tesla
Ireland 59 low base 930 +3% 367 +83% 184 183 BYD
Czechia 175 +3% 672 −4% 134 low base 73 61 Tesla
Finland 91 low base 1,243 +128% 125 low base 115 10 BYD
Poland 216 – 1,046 – n/a – 246 n/a –
Tesla, all 13 countries 8,479 Every figure is a full count. Year to date in 12 countries: 67,119 (+49%).
Tesla, 12 countries with a year-earlier figure 8,263 (+81%) vs 4,557 a year earlier. Up in 10, down in 2.
Tesla vs BYD, 11 countries with every brand 6,434 vs 21,537 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 5,397, BYD 5,400.

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 Apr 2026, 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 April 2026 0 10k 20k 30k 40k ’24’25Apr 26 6,434 21,537

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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
January 20265,11614,469
February 20269,25814,169
March 202630,53731,510
April 20266,43421,537

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 April 2026 0% 5% 10% 15% ’24’25Apr 26 10.1% 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%
January 20267.7%10.4%
February 20268.4%11.0%
March 202610.1%12.9%
April 202610.1%13.0%

All new cars

10.1% across 11 countries (80,689 of 796,406); 13.0% including Chinese-owned brands.

Chinese-brand share by country, All new cars, April 2026
CountrySharevs 2025YTDLargest Chinese brands
United Kingdom
16.5%
 +9.5 pp 14.6% MG 7,005 · BYD 5,059 · Jaecoo 3,877
Spain
14.5%
 +6.3 pp 13.6% MG 4,421 · BYD 4,039 · Omoda 2,180
Italy
14.0%
 +6.8 pp 12.2% MG 5,851 · BYD 4,572 · Leapmotor 4,496
Austria
8.7%
 +4.5 pp 7.2% BYD 1,243 · MG 614 · Jaecoo 183
Switzerland
6.5%
 +4.7 pp 5.3% BYD 555 · MG 331 · Leapmotor 142
Netherlands
6.4%
 +1.0 pp 6.5% BYD 483 · MG 308 · Leapmotor 194
Ireland
6.1%
 +2.4 pp 5.5% BYD 367 · MG 171 · Leapmotor 49
Czechia
6.0%
 +3.2 pp 4.9% MG 434 · Omoda/Jaecoo 379 · Chery 190
Sweden
4.6%
 +2.6 pp 2.9% Lynk & Co 388 · BYD 255 · Zeekr 187
Germany
4.0%
 +2.3 pp 3.2% BYD 4,705 · MG 2,827 · Leapmotor 1,355
Finland
3.8%
 +2.3 pp 2.9% BYD 125 · MG 49 · XPeng 22

Battery-electric cars only

9.9% across 10 countries (11,475 of 115,527); 16.4% including Chinese-owned brands.

Chinese-brand share by country, Battery-electric cars only, April 2026
CountrySharevs 2025YTDLargest Chinese brands
Spain
27.2%
 +12.0 pp 24.4% BYD 1,568 · Deepal 360 · Leapmotor 257
Poland
18.0%
 – 18.0% BYD 246 · Leapmotor 94 · XPeng 36
Austria
17.4%
 +7.8 pp 14.6% BYD 917 · Leapmotor 157 · MG 100 (est.)
Ireland
12.7%
 −3.4 pp 13.6% BYD 184 · MG 86 · Leapmotor 46
Switzerland
12.4%
 +9.4 pp 10.6% BYD 222 · Leapmotor 113 · MG 86
Czechia
10.4%
 +6.7 pp 7.9% BYD 73 · Leapmotor 41 · MG 25
Netherlands
7.3%
 −2.0 pp 8.2% Leapmotor 173 · BYD 166 · Zeekr 119
Germany
7.0%
 +1.4 pp 6.4% BYD 1,875 · Leapmotor 1,274 · MG 720
Finland
6.9%
 +3.7 pp 4.8% BYD 115 · MG 35 · XPeng 22
Sweden
4.9%
 +1.6 pp 3.5% Zeekr 187 · XPeng 109 · MG 101

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, April 2026
ModelBEV registrationsYoYMoMLargest markets
1Skoda Elroq
5,463
 +28% −5% DE 3,341 · NL 690 · CH 313
2Skoda Enyaq
4,495
 +49% −6% DE 2,790 · CH 421 · CZ 358
3Volkswagen ID.3
4,217
 +17% +6% DE 3,518 · NL 223 · ES 112
4Tesla Model Y
3,619
 +110% −69% DE 1,968 · SE 413 · NL 357
5Volkswagen ID.7
3,435
 −24% −15% DE 2,541 · SE 525 · NL 146
6Mercedes-Benz CLA
3,313
 low base +7% DE 2,385 · ES 198 · SE 196
7BMW iX1/X1
3,297
 +39% +12% DE 2,421 · SE 294 · NL 177
8Volkswagen ID.4/ID.5
3,177
 −12% −13% DE 2,064 · SE 356 · IE 209
9Kia EV3
2,260
 −24% −4% DE 671 · NL 522 · ES 427
10Hyundai Inster
2,190
 +40% +12% DE 1,520 · NL 278 · ES 155
11BMW iX3/X3
2,188
 +687% −9% DE 1,291 · SE 367 · NL 156
12Audi Q4 e-tron
2,048
 +22% +2% DE 1,295 · NL 234 · ES 184
13Audi Q6 e-tron
2,047
 +25% −2% DE 1,451 · NL 135 · FI 128
14Toyota C-HR+/C-HR
2,017
 new +52% ES 831 · NL 390 · DE 231
15Volvo EX40/XC40
1,941
 +56% +6% SE 1,128 · NL 360 · DE 226
16Renault 5
1,922
 +1% −5% DE 870 · ES 376 · NL 297
17Audi A6 e-tron/A6
1,840
 −12% −29% DE 1,510 · SE 112 · NL 65
18Cupra Born
1,820
 −16% −13% DE 1,442 · SE 104 · NL 92
19Volvo EX30
1,788
 −7% −5% SE 619 · DE 448 · CH 199
20Cupra Tavascan
1,708
 −3% −28% DE 1,415 · SE 78 · NL 49
21Mercedes-Benz EQB/GLB
1,523
 +32% +53% DE 1,041 · SE 187 · ES 71
22Citroën C3/C3 Aircross
1,464
 +15% −16% DE 949 · ES 258 · NL 120
23Tesla Model 3
1,423
 +61% −77% DE 1,134 · NL 109 · ES 97
24Mercedes-Benz EQA/GLA
1,414
 −1% −7% DE 770 · ES 167 · SE 166
25Volkswagen ID. Buzz
1,344
 +10% +14% DE 1,000 · ES 111 · SE 102

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. 1Skoda Elroq ≥6,565
  2. 2Tesla Model Y ≥5,445
  3. 3Renault 5 ≥5,376
  4. 4Leapmotor T03 ≥4,973
  5. 5Skoda Enyaq ≥4,495
  6. 6Volkswagen ID.4/ID.5 ≥4,393
  7. 7Volkswagen ID.3 ≥4,217
  8. 8Citroën C3/C3 Aircross ≥4,007
  9. 9Volkswagen ID.7 ≥3,435
  10. 10Mercedes-Benz CLA ≥3,313

Fastest-growing BEV models, year on year

Ranked by registrations added vs April 2025, in the same 8 countries. Models with at least 300 registrations this month.

Fastest-growing BEV models, year on year
ModelNowBeforeAddedChange
Mercedes-Benz CLA 3,200 76 +3,124 low base
BMW iX3/X3 2,179 277 +1,902 +687%
Toyota C-HR+/C-HR 1,884 0 +1,884 new
Tesla Model Y 3,418 1,627 +1,791 +110%
Skoda Enyaq 4,461 3,004 +1,457 +49%
BYD Dolphin SurfCN 1,197 0 +1,197 new
Skoda Elroq 5,348 4,180 +1,168 +28%
Kia EV4 1,163 0 +1,163 new
Kia EV2 1,109 0 +1,109 new
BMW iX1/X1 3,214 2,307 +907 +39%

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
Kia EV2 1,148 129 +1,019 +790%
Toyota C-HR+/C-HR 2,017 1,330 +687 +52%
Mercedes-Benz EQB/GLB 1,523 997 +526 +53%
Mercedes-Benz GLC 726 271 +455 +168%
Renault Twingo 469 63 +406 low base
BMW iX1/X1 3,297 2,944 +353 +12%
Kia EV4 1,169 820 +349 +43%
Dacia Spring 953 612 +341 +56%
smart #5 790 466 +324 +70%
BYD Atto 3CN 573 323 +250 +77%

Top battery-electric models by country

Netherlands

  1. 1Skoda Elroq690
  2. 2Kia EV3522
  3. 3Toyota C-HR+/C-HR390
  4. 4Volvo EX40/XC40360
  5. 5Tesla Model Y357
  6. 6Kia EV5329
  7. 7Renault 5297
  8. 8Hyundai Inster278
  9. 9Audi Q4 e-tron234
  10. 10Volkswagen ID.3223

Sweden

  1. 1Volvo EX40/XC401,128
  2. 2Volvo EX30619
  3. 3Volkswagen ID.7525
  4. 4Tesla Model Y413
  5. 5Kia EV3397
  6. 6Polestar 4394
  7. 7BMW iX3/X3367
  8. 8Volkswagen ID.4/ID.5356
  9. 9Skoda Enyaq305
  10. 10BMW iX1/X1294

Finland

  1. 1Skoda Enyaq174
  2. 2Skoda Elroq167
  3. 3Volkswagen ID.4/ID.5162
  4. 4Audi Q6 e-tron128
  5. 5smart #5110
  6. 6Mercedes-Benz CLA109
  7. 7Toyota bZ4X108
  8. 8Volvo EX40/XC4092
  9. 9Volkswagen ID.790
  10. 10BMW i4/4 Series76

Germany

  1. 1Volkswagen ID.33,518
  2. 2Skoda Elroq3,341
  3. 3Skoda Enyaq2,790
  4. 4Volkswagen ID.72,541
  5. 5BMW iX1/X12,421
  6. 6Mercedes-Benz CLA2,385
  7. 7Volkswagen ID.4/ID.52,064
  8. 8Tesla Model Y1,968
  9. 9Hyundai Inster1,520
  10. 10Audi A6 e-tron/A61,510

France

Top-N only
  1. 1Renault 53,454
  2. 2Renault Scenic2,118
  3. 3Citroën C3/C3 Aircross1,623
  4. 4Tesla Model Y1,456
  5. 5Volkswagen ID.4/ID.51,216
  6. 6Peugeot 2081,156
  7. 7Skoda Elroq1,102
  8. 8Peugeot 3008981
  9. 9Renault Megane922
  10. 10Audi Q4 e-tron853

Spain

  1. 1Toyota C-HR+/C-HR831
  2. 2BYD Dolphin Surf544
  3. 3Kia EV3427
  4. 4Renault 5376
  5. 5Deepal S05335
  6. 6BYD Atto 2284
  7. 7Skoda Elroq282
  8. 8Citroën C3/C3 Aircross258
  9. 9Kia EV2235
  10. 10BYD Atto 3230

Italy

Top-N only
  1. 1Leapmotor T034,090
  2. 2Citroën C3/C3 Aircross920
  3. 3BYD Dolphin Surf508
  4. 4Dacia Spring458
  5. 5Tesla Model Y370
  6. 6Fiat 600339
  7. 7Leapmotor B10316
  8. 8Renault Twingo261
  9. 9Volvo EX30255
  10. 10Toyota C-HR+/C-HR253

Switzerland

  1. 1Skoda Enyaq421
  2. 2Skoda Elroq313
  3. 3Volvo EX30199
  4. 4Tesla Model Y191
  5. 5Renault 4138
  6. 6BMW iX1/X1137
  7. 7BMW iX3/X3133
  8. 8Mercedes-Benz CLA133
  9. 9Renault 5114
  10. 10Audi Q4 e-tron109

Ireland

  1. 1Volkswagen ID.4/ID.5209
  2. 2Skoda Enyaq191
  3. 3Toyota C-HR+/C-HR148
  4. 4Skoda Elroq144
  5. 5Kia EV5107
  6. 6Volkswagen ID.394
  7. 7Kia EV392
  8. 8Ford Explorer90
  9. 9BMW iX3/X388
  10. 10Hyundai Inster82

Poland

  1. 1Tesla Model Y201
  2. 2Mercedes-Benz EQA/GLA136
  3. 3Toyota C-HR+/C-HR133
  4. 4BMW iX2/X2126
  5. 5Skoda Elroq115
  6. 6Mercedes-Benz CLA113
  7. 7BMW iX1/X183
  8. 8BYD Dolphin Surf80
  9. 9BYD Sealion 775
  10. 10Volkswagen ID.4/ID.562

Czechia

  1. 1Skoda Enyaq358
  2. 2Skoda Elroq293
  3. 3Tesla Model Y163
  4. 4Toyota C-HR+/C-HR49
  5. 5BYD Sealion 745
  6. 6Volvo EX3035
  7. 7Hyundai Inster28
  8. 8Mercedes-Benz CLA27
  9. 9Kia EV325
  10. 10Toyota bZ4X24

Brand league table

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

108,441 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, April 2026
BrandGroupRegistrationsShareYoY
1Volkswagen Volkswagen Group
12,298
 11.3% −6%
2Skoda Volkswagen Group
9,959
 9.2% +37%
3BMW BMW Group
8,816
 8.1% +39%
4Mercedes-Benz Mercedes-Benz Group
7,855
 7.2% +90%
5Kia Hyundai Motor Group
6,970
 6.4% +50%
6Audi Volkswagen Group
6,042
 5.6% +8%
7Tesla
5,116
 4.7% +93%
8VolvoCN-owned Geely Holding
4,757
 4.4% +18%
9BYDCN
4,483
 4.1% +110%
10Hyundai Hyundai Motor Group
4,434
 4.1% +14%
11Renault Renault Group
4,291
 4.0% +68%
12Cupra Volkswagen Group
3,543
 3.3% −10%
13Ford
3,397
 3.1% +27%
14Toyota
3,183
 2.9% +209%
15Opel Stellantis
2,834
 2.6% +14%
16Mini BMW Group
2,043
 1.9% +19%
17LeapmotorCN
2,027
 1.9% +267%
18Peugeot Stellantis
1,928
 1.8% +38%
19Citroën Stellantis
1,739
 1.6% +11%
20Fiat Stellantis
1,405
 1.3% −2%
21smartCN-owned smart Automobile (Mercedes-Benz/Geely JV)
1,273
 1.2% +193%
22MGCN SAIC
1,250
 1.1% −31%
23PolestarCN-owned Geely Holding
1,190
 1.1% −3%
24XPengCN
1,105
 1.0% +131%
25Dacia Renault Group
954
 0.9% +93%
26Porsche Volkswagen Group
831
 0.8% −38%
27Nissan
692
 0.6% +83%
28Mazda
628
 0.6% low base
29ZeekrCN Geely Holding
406
 0.4% +152%
30DeepalCN Changan
374
 0.3% new

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, April 2026
CountryNew carsYoYBEVBEV shareBEV YoYPHEVSource · first in
Netherlands 25,505 −6% 9,637
37.8%
 0% 5,905 RDW · 2026-09-23
Norway 11,095 0% 10,943
98.6%
 +2% – Statistics Norway (SSB); Opplysningsrådet for veitrafikken (OFV) · 2026-09-23
Sweden 24,147 −1% 9,834
40.7%
 +15% 5,810 Mobility Sweden · 2026-09-23
Denmark 16,835 +11% 13,715
81.5%
 +43% 119 Mobility Denmark; Danmarks Statistik · 2026-09-23
Finland 5,706 −9% 2,784
48.8%
 +21% 637 Traficom (Finnish Transport and Communications Agency) · 2026-09-23
Germany 249,163 +3% 64,350
25.8%
 +41% 27,546 Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt (KBA) · 2026-09-23
United Kingdom 149,247 +24% 39,084
26.2%
 +59% 20,597 SMMT · 2026-09-23
France 138,339 0% 36,542
26.4%
 +43% 8,425 Avere-France; PFA (Plateforme automobile) · 2026-09-23
Spain 107,684 +9% 10,049
9.3%
 +43% 12,728 Dirección General de Tráfico (DGT) · 2026-09-23
Italy 156,348 +12% 13,238
8.5%
 +99% 14,184 UNRAE · 2026-09-23
Belgium No figures for this month from this source. FEBIAC
Switzerland 18,618 0% 4,683
25.1%
 +35% 2,299 auto-schweiz (data: ASTRA/OFROU, MOFIS register) · 2026-09-23
Austria 27,509 +11% 7,122
25.9%
 +25% – Statistik Austria · 2026-09-23
Portugal 21,592 – 5,009e
23.2%
 – – ACAP · 2026-09-23
Ireland 10,082 +16% 2,736
27.1%
 +105% 1,479 SIMI (Society of the Irish Motor Industry) · 2026-09-24
Poland 50,398 – 2,648
5.3%
 – – Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji (CEPiK) · 2026-09-24
Czechia 22,397 +6% 1,684
7.5%
 +37% 1,090 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 April 2026 0% 10% 20% 30% ’24’25Apr 26 20.7%

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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%
January 202617.4%
February 202617.4%
March 202619.9%
April 202620.7%

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CSV April 2026 (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.

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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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