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January 2026 edition 16 countries Final figures, compiled retrospectively

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

Tesla registered 5,973 cars in the 13 countries with a Tesla figure for January 2026. In the 12 countries with a year-earlier figure it was down 13% (5,777 vs 6,667): up in 6, down in 5. BYD (battery-electric and plug-in hybrid) outsold Tesla in 8 of the 11 countries that publish every brand: 14,469 BYD vs 5,116 Tesla. Counting battery-electric cars only, in 10 countries: Tesla 3,881, BYD 4,368 (BYD's figure for Austria is an estimate).

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Battery-electric cars 171,697 +14% YoY in 14 countries Total of 16 countries
BEV share of new cars 20.1% 17.1% a year earlier Same 14 countries in both years
Chinese brands’ share 7.7% 4.0% a year earlier (same 11) All new cars, 11 countries · definition
BYD vs Tesla BYD14,469 Tesla5,116 BYD ahead in 8 of the 11 countries that publish every brand
16 countries in this edition
  • Netherlands 25% BEV
  • Norway 94% BEV
  • Sweden 42% BEV
  • Denmark 82% BEV
  • Finland 46% BEV
  • Germany 22% BEV
  • United Kingdom 21% BEV
  • France 29% BEV
  • Spain 9% BEV
  • Italy 7% BEV
  • Belgium no data
  • Switzerland 21% BEV
  • Austria 21% BEV
  • Portugal 26% BEV
  • Ireland 21% BEV
  • Poland 9% BEV
  • Czechia 5% BEV

January 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 January 2026?
Tesla registered 5,973 cars in the 13 countries covered here that have a Tesla figure for January 2026. In the 12 countries with a year-earlier figure, Tesla was down 13% (5,777 vs 6,667): up in 6, down in 5.
Did BYD outsell Tesla in Europe in January 2026?
Yes, counting all powertrains. In the 11 countries that publish every brand, BYD registered 14,469 cars (battery-electric and plug-in hybrid) and Tesla 5,116; BYD was ahead in 8 of them. BYD’s 14,469 in those countries alone is more than Tesla’s 5,973 across all 13 countries. Counting battery-electric cars only (10 countries), BYD led: Tesla 3,881, BYD 4,368, with BYD ahead in 4 of those countries. (BYD’s figure for Austria is an estimate.)
What share of new cars in Europe went to Chinese brands in January 2026?
Chinese brands (BYD, MG, Leapmotor, Omoda/Jaecoo, XPeng and others) took 7.7% of new-car registrations in the 11 countries that publish every brand, or 10.4% including Chinese-owned Volvo, Polestar, smart and Lotus. In the 11 countries with data for both years, the share was 7.7% against 4.0% a year earlier.
Which electric car sold best in Europe in January 2026?
The Renault 5, with at least 5,762 battery-electric registrations across 11 countries (counting the top-10 lists published in France and Italy). Among the 9 countries that publish every model, the Skoda Elroq led with 4,315.
What share of new cars in Europe were electric in January 2026?
Battery-electric cars were 19.7% of new-car registrations across the 16 countries reporting both figures for January 2026. In the 14 countries with data for both years the share was 20.1%, against 17.1% a year earlier.
Which electric car grew fastest in Europe in January 2026?
By added battery-electric registrations year on year, the Skoda Elroq: 4,140 in January 2026 against 455 a year earlier, in the 8 countries that publish every model for both years.

Tesla vs BYD by country

Registrations in January 2026, with the change on January 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, January 2026
Country Tesla YoY Tesla YTD YTD YoY BYD (all) YoY BYD BEV BYD PHEV Ahead
United Kingdom 718 −51% 718 −51% 4,021 +149% n/a n/a BYD
Italy 713 +75% 713 +75% 3,553 +330% ≥856 ≥2,349 BYD
Germany 1,301 +2% 1,301 +2% 2,629 >+999% 1,561 1,068 BYD
Spain 458 +70% 458 +70% 1,961 +65% 1,039 922 BYD
Austria 561 +147% 561 +147% 646 +35% 449e n/a BYD
Ireland 143 0% 143 0% 1,026 +131% 571 455 BYD
France 661 −42% 661 −42% n/a – n/a n/a –
Netherlands 301 −68% 301 −67% 327 +37% 118 209 BYD
Sweden 512 +26% 512 +26% 35 low base 14 n/a Tesla
Finland 224 low base 224 +286% 101 low base 74 27 Tesla
Switzerland 83 −65% 83 −65% 144 low base 72 66 BYD
Poland 196 – 196 – n/a – 451 n/a –
Czechia 102 −12% 102 −12% 26 – 19 6 Tesla
Tesla, all 13 countries 5,973 Every figure is a full count.
Tesla, 12 countries with a year-earlier figure 5,777 (−13%) vs 6,667 a year earlier. Up in 6, down in 5.
Tesla vs BYD, 11 countries with every brand 5,116 vs 14,469 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 3,881, BYD 4,368.

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 Jan 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 January 2026 0 10k 20k 30k ’24’25’26 5,116 14,469

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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

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 January 2026 0% 5% 10% 15% ’24’25’26 7.7% 10.4%

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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%

All new cars

7.7% across 11 countries (53,152 of 693,910); 10.4% including Chinese-owned brands.

Chinese-brand share by country, All new cars, January 2026
CountrySharevs 2025YTDLargest Chinese brands
United Kingdom
13.1%
 +7.1 pp 13.1% MG 5,079 · Jaecoo 4,850 · BYD 4,021
Spain
12.4%
 +4.3 pp 12.4% MG 2,318 · BYD 1,961 · Ebro 1,706
Italy
9.6%
 +3.9 pp 9.6% MG 4,240 · BYD 3,553 · Omoda/Jaecoo 2,496
Netherlands
5.6%
 +2.8 pp 5.6% BYD 327 · Jaecoo 318 · MG 249
Austria
5.5%
 +2.1 pp 5.5% BYD 646 · MG 234 · Jaecoo 169
Ireland
5.3%
 +2.7 pp 5.3% BYD 1,026 · MG 622 · XPeng 102
Switzerland
3.9%
 +2.8 pp 3.9% MG 193 · BYD 144 · Leapmotor 128
Finland
2.9%
 +1.5 pp 2.9% BYD 101 · MG 27 · XPeng 15
Czechia
2.9%
 +0.9 pp 2.9% MG 171 · Omoda/Jaecoo 157 · Chery 47
Germany
2.7%
 +1.5 pp 2.7% BYD 2,629 · MG 1,458 · Leapmotor 689
Sweden
1.8%
 +0.1 pp 1.8% Lynk & Co 75 · Zeekr 62 · MG 46

Battery-electric cars only

9.4% across 10 countries (8,017 of 84,967); 16.4% including Chinese-owned brands.

Chinese-brand share by country, Battery-electric cars only, January 2026
CountrySharevs 2025YTDLargest Chinese brands
Poland
24.0%
 – 24.0% BYD 451 · Leapmotor 176 · GAC 60
Spain
23.8%
 +2.7 pp 23.8% BYD 1,039 · Leapmotor 165 · XPeng 114
Ireland
14.2%
 +6.0 pp 14.2% BYD 571 · MG 307 · XPeng 102
Austria
13.1%
 −0.9 pp 13.1% BYD 449 · Leapmotor 85 · MG 50 (est.)
Switzerland
9.7%
 +6.9 pp 9.7% Leapmotor 111 · BYD 72 · Zeekr 42
Netherlands
8.7%
 +2.6 pp 8.7% MG 146 · BYD 118 · Leapmotor 111
Germany
6.3%
 +1.2 pp 6.3% BYD 1,561 · Leapmotor 615 · XPeng 327
Czechia
5.4%
 +1.6 pp 5.4% BYD 19 · MG 12 · Leapmotor 9
Finland
4.8%
 +1.4 pp 4.8% BYD 74 · MG 16 · XPeng 15
Sweden
2.4%
 −1.1 pp 2.4% Zeekr 62 · XPeng 40 · MG 34

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, January 2026
ModelBEV registrationsYoYMoMLargest markets
1Skoda Elroq
4,315
 +810% −42% DE 3,121 · IE 216 · CH 199
2Volkswagen ID.7
3,437
 −20% −33% DE 2,632 · SE 374 · NL 163
3Volkswagen ID.3
2,983
 −4% −34% DE 2,405 · IE 140 · NL 122
4Tesla Model Y
2,960
 +26% −67% DE 1,119 · SE 499 · ES 448
5Skoda Enyaq
2,952
 −28% −26% DE 1,841 · SE 242 · IE 201
6Volkswagen ID.4/ID.5
2,562
 −42% −26% DE 991 · IE 790 · SE 200
7Mercedes-Benz CLA
1,988
 low base −29% DE 1,330 · ES 172 · SE 147
8Kia EV3
1,832
 −45% −41% DE 575 · NL 313 · IE 297
9Audi A6 e-tron/A6
1,773
 +728% −44% DE 1,454 · SE 103 · NL 80
10BMW iX1/X1
1,770
 +30% −59% DE 961 · SE 190 · IE 149
11Audi Q6 e-tron
1,679
 +18% −41% DE 1,358 · SE 84 · NL 55
12BYD Dolphin SurfCN
1,542
 new −23% DE 833 · ES 289 · PL 265
13Volvo EX40/XC40
1,531
 +60% −48% SE 774 · DE 209 · NL 189
14Toyota bZ4X
1,518
 +48% +43% DE 355 · SE 292 · IE 261
15Hyundai Inster
1,505
 +85% +62% DE 694 · IE 322 · NL 268
16Citroën C3/C3 Aircross
1,447
 +113% −24% DE 811 · NL 210 · PL 190
17Cupra Born
1,419
 −35% −26% DE 1,054 · IE 140 · SE 123
18Audi Q4 e-tron
1,408
 −28% −50% DE 774 · PL 121 · NL 104
19Mercedes-Benz EQA/GLA
1,393
 +19% −18% DE 738 · ES 224 · PL 158
20Renault 5
1,384
 +75% −36% DE 434 · NL 270 · SE 222
21Volvo EX30
1,284
 −35% −55% SE 319 · NL 275 · DE 274
22Mini All models (not itemised)
1,220
 +47% −28% DE 1,220
23BMW i5/5 Series
1,174
 +15% −39% DE 901 · NL 112 · SE 81
24Cupra Tavascan
1,078
 −13% −58% DE 826 · IE 153 · CH 24
25Hyundai Kona
1,062
 +7% −8% DE 444 · IE 290 · NL 193

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. 1Renault 5 ≥5,762
  2. 2Skoda Elroq ≥5,450
  3. 3Citroën C3/C3 Aircross ≥3,844
  4. 4Tesla Model Y ≥3,656
  5. 5Volkswagen ID.4/ID.5 ≥3,450
  6. 6Volkswagen ID.7 ≥3,437
  7. 7Volkswagen ID.3 ≥2,983
  8. 8Skoda Enyaq ≥2,952
  9. 9BYD Dolphin Surf ≥2,398
  10. 10Renault Scenic ≥2,279

Fastest-growing BEV models, year on year

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

Fastest-growing BEV models, year on year
ModelNowBeforeAddedChange
Skoda Elroq 4,140 455 +3,685 +810%
Mercedes-Benz CLA 1,931 3 +1,928 low base
Audi A6 e-tron/A6 1,747 211 +1,536 +728%
BYD Dolphin SurfCN 1,277 0 +1,277 new
Kia EV5 1,004 0 +1,004 new
Hyundai Inster 1,459 789 +670 +85%
Citroën C3/C3 Aircross 1,257 590 +667 +113%
Opel Grandland 1,050 391 +659 +169%
Volvo EX40/XC40 1,531 958 +573 +60%
Tesla Model Y 2,770 2,200 +570 +26%

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
Hyundai Inster 1,505 927 +578 +62%
Kia EV5 1,013 462 +551 +119%
Toyota bZ4X 1,518 1,061 +457 +43%
Porsche Macan 902 652 +250 +38%
Hyundai Ioniq 5 923 753 +170 +23%
Kia PV5 389 234 +155 +66%
MG S5CN 398 243 +155 +64%
Opel Grandland 1,055 904 +151 +17%
Kia Niro 303 198 +105 +53%
Peugeot 3008 440 362 +78 +22%

Top battery-electric models by country

Netherlands

  1. 1Kia EV3313
  2. 2Tesla Model Y287
  3. 3Volvo EX30275
  4. 4Renault 5270
  5. 5Hyundai Inster268
  6. 6Citroën C3/C3 Aircross210
  7. 7Hyundai Kona193
  8. 8Volvo EX40/XC40189
  9. 9Volkswagen ID.4/ID.5184
  10. 10Volkswagen ID.7163

Sweden

  1. 1Volvo EX40/XC40774
  2. 2Tesla Model Y499
  3. 3Volkswagen ID.7374
  4. 4Polestar 4364
  5. 5Volvo EX30319
  6. 6Toyota bZ4X292
  7. 7Kia EV5275
  8. 8Kia EV3250
  9. 9Kia EV9244
  10. 10Skoda Enyaq242

Finland

  1. 1Tesla Model Y221
  2. 2Toyota bZ4X183
  3. 3Skoda Elroq166
  4. 4Skoda Enyaq151
  5. 5Volkswagen ID.4/ID.5139
  6. 6Volvo EX40/XC40127
  7. 7Mercedes-Benz CLA126
  8. 8Kia EV379
  9. 9Volkswagen ID.778
  10. 10Volvo EC4077

Germany

  1. 1Skoda Elroq3,121
  2. 2Volkswagen ID.72,632
  3. 3Volkswagen ID.32,405
  4. 4Skoda Enyaq1,841
  5. 5Audi A6 e-tron/A61,454
  6. 6Audi Q6 e-tron1,358
  7. 7Mercedes-Benz CLA1,330
  8. 8Mini All models (not itemised)1,220
  9. 9Tesla Model Y1,119
  10. 10Cupra Born1,054

France

Top-N only
  1. 1Renault 54,009
  2. 2Renault Scenic1,954
  3. 3Peugeot 2081,666
  4. 4Citroën C3/C3 Aircross1,472
  5. 5Peugeot 20081,074
  6. 6Renault Megane1,017
  7. 7Renault 4944
  8. 8Volkswagen ID.4/ID.5888
  9. 9Skoda Elroq875
  10. 10Mini All models (not itemised)856

Spain

  1. 1Tesla Model Y448
  2. 2Jeep Avenger324
  3. 3BYD Dolphin Surf289
  4. 4Kia Niro285
  5. 5Mercedes-Benz EQA/GLA224
  6. 6Kia EV3207
  7. 7BYD Atto 2203
  8. 8BYD Atto 3201
  9. 9Toyota bZ4X178
  10. 10Mercedes-Benz CLA172

Italy

Top-N only
  1. 1Leapmotor T03949
  2. 2Citroën C3/C3 Aircross925
  3. 3BYD Dolphin Surf856
  4. 4Tesla Model Y696
  5. 5Ford Puma502
  6. 6Dacia Spring447
  7. 7Renault 5369
  8. 8Skoda Elroq260
  9. 9Renault 4215

Switzerland

  1. 1Skoda Elroq199
  2. 2Skoda Enyaq189
  3. 3Volvo EX30164
  4. 4Kia PV587
  5. 5Porsche Macan85
  6. 6Audi Q4 e-tron81
  7. 7BMW iX1/X170
  8. 8Toyota bZ4X64
  9. 9Tesla Model Y62
  10. 10Renault 559

Ireland

  1. 1Volkswagen ID.4/ID.5790
  2. 2Hyundai Inster322
  3. 3Kia EV3297
  4. 4Hyundai Kona290
  5. 5Hyundai Ioniq 5271
  6. 6Toyota bZ4X261
  7. 7BYD Sealion 7255
  8. 8MG S5216
  9. 9Skoda Elroq216
  10. 10Ford Explorer209

Poland

  1. 1BYD Dolphin Surf265
  2. 2Citroën C3/C3 Aircross190
  3. 3Tesla Model Y190
  4. 4Skoda Elroq175
  5. 5Mercedes-Benz EQA/GLA158
  6. 6Volkswagen ID.4/ID.5136
  7. 7Audi Q4 e-tron121
  8. 8BMW iX1/X1115
  9. 9Fiat Panda112
  10. 10Leapmotor B10104

Czechia

  1. 1Skoda Enyaq172
  2. 2Skoda Elroq160
  3. 3Tesla Model Y85
  4. 4Volvo EX3030
  5. 5Mercedes-Benz EQA/GLA26
  6. 6Mercedes-Benz CLA22
  7. 7BMW iX1/X121
  8. 8Hyundai Inster18
  9. 9Volkswagen ID.4/ID.518
  10. 10Mazda 6e/616

Brand league table

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

80,265 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, January 2026
BrandGroupRegistrationsShareYoY
1Volkswagen Volkswagen Group
9,887
 12.3% −20%
2Skoda Volkswagen Group
7,275
 9.1% +56%
3BMW BMW Group
5,144
 6.4% +6%
4Audi Volkswagen Group
4,946
 6.2% +32%
5Kia Hyundai Motor Group
4,832
 6.0% −6%
6Mercedes-Benz Mercedes-Benz Group
4,628
 5.8% +27%
7Hyundai Hyundai Motor Group
3,982
 5.0% +22%
8BYDCN
3,919
 4.9% +128%
9VolvoCN-owned Geely Holding
3,705
 4.6% −1%
10Tesla
3,320
 4.1% −9%
11Opel Stellantis
2,714
 3.4% +95%
12Renault Renault Group
2,545
 3.2% +72%
13Cupra Volkswagen Group
2,498
 3.1% −27%
14Ford
2,123
 2.6% +75%
15Mini BMW Group
2,103
 2.6% +28%
16Peugeot Stellantis
1,819
 2.3% +28%
17Citroën Stellantis
1,741
 2.2% +54%
18Toyota
1,725
 2.1% +55%
19Porsche Volkswagen Group
1,387
 1.7% −9%
20Fiat Stellantis
1,331
 1.7% +174%
21PolestarCN-owned Geely Holding
1,268
 1.6% +20%
22LeapmotorCN
1,241
 1.6% +170%
23MGCN SAIC
812
 1.0% −54%
24XPengCN
723
 0.9% +147%
25smartCN-owned smart Automobile (Mercedes-Benz/Geely JV)
703
 0.9% +2%
26Jeep Stellantis
536
 0.7% +176%
27Nissan
495
 0.6% −40%
28Mazda
467
 0.6% low base
29Dacia Renault Group
269
 0.3% −82%
30Mitsubishi
260
 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, January 2026
CountryNew carsYoYBEVBEV shareBEV YoYPHEVSource · first in
Netherlands 27,966 −15% 7,022
25.1%
 −38% 7,792 RDW · 2026-09-23
Norway 2,216 −76% 2,083
94.0%
 −77% – Statistics Norway (SSB); Opplysningsrådet for veitrafikken (OFV) · 2026-09-23
Sweden 16,041 −18% 6,710
41.8%
 +19% 3,582 Mobility Sweden · 2026-09-23
Denmark 12,874 +19% 10,609
82.4%
 +53% 141 Mobility Denmark; Danmarks Statistik · 2026-09-23
Finland 5,462 −5% 2,505
45.9%
 +53% 789 Traficom (Finnish Transport and Communications Agency) · 2026-09-23
Germany 193,981 −7% 42,692
22.0%
 +24% 21,790 Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt (KBA) · 2026-09-23
United Kingdom 144,127 +3% 29,654
20.6%
 0% 18,557 SMMT · 2026-09-23
France 107,157 −7% 30,594
28.6%
 +54% 4,877 Avere-France; PFA (Plateforme automobile) · 2026-09-23
Spain 73,483 +1% 6,640
9.0%
 +28% 8,330 Dirección General de Tráfico (DGT) · 2026-09-23
Italy 143,332 +7% 9,446
6.6%
 +40% 12,502 UNRAE · 2026-09-23
Belgium No figures for this month from this source. FEBIAC
Switzerland 14,027 −5% 2,913
20.8%
 0% 1,709 auto-schweiz (data: ASTRA/OFROU, MOFIS register) · 2026-09-23
Austria 22,929 +12% 4,702
20.5%
 +23% – Statistik Austria · 2026-09-23
Portugal 16,839 – 4,344e
25.8%
 – – ACAP · 2026-09-23
Ireland 34,519 +3% 7,297
21.1%
 +48% 5,177 SIMI (Society of the Irish Motor Industry) · 2026-09-24
Poland 39,155 – 3,546
9.1%
 – – Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji (CEPiK) · 2026-09-24
Czechia 18,043 −7% 940
5.2%
 −4% 850 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 January 2026 0% 10% 20% 30% ’24’25’26 17.4%

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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%

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CSV January 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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