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May 2026 edition 17 countries Final figures, compiled retrospectively

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

Tesla registered 21,020 cars in the 14 countries with a Tesla figure for May 2026. In the 12 countries with a year-earlier figure it was up 128% (19,668 vs 8,643): up in 9, down in 3. BYD (battery-electric and plug-in hybrid) outsold Tesla in 7 of the 12 countries that publish every brand: 25,297 BYD vs 15,390 Tesla. Counting battery-electric cars only, in 11 countries: Tesla 11,472, BYD 6,343 (BYD's figure for Austria is an estimate).

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Battery-electric cars 248,291 +43% YoY in 13 countries Total of 16 countries
BEV share of new cars 23.6% 17.1% a year earlier Same 13 countries in both years
Chinese brands’ share 10.8% 5.7% a year earlier (same 11) All new cars, 12 countries · definition
BYD vs Tesla BYD25,297 Tesla15,390 BYD ahead in 7 of the 12 countries that publish every brand
17 countries in this edition
  • Netherlands 42% BEV
  • Norway 98% BEV
  • Sweden 41% BEV
  • Denmark 78% BEV
  • Finland 49% BEV
  • Germany 25% BEV
  • United Kingdom 27% BEV
  • France 29% BEV
  • Spain 11% BEV
  • Italy 9% BEV
  • Belgium brands only, no BEV
  • Switzerland 26% BEV
  • Austria 26% BEV
  • Portugal 28% BEV
  • Ireland 29% BEV
  • Poland 4% BEV
  • Czechia 7% BEV

May 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 May 2026?
Tesla registered 21,020 cars in the 14 countries covered here that have a Tesla figure for May 2026. In the 12 countries with a year-earlier figure, Tesla was up 128% (19,668 vs 8,643): up in 9, down in 3. Year to date in 12 countries: 86,787 (+62%).
Did BYD outsell Tesla in Europe in May 2026?
Yes, counting all powertrains. In the 12 countries that publish every brand, BYD registered 25,297 cars (battery-electric and plug-in hybrid) and Tesla 15,390; BYD was ahead in 7 of them. BYD’s 25,297 in those countries alone is more than Tesla’s 21,020 across all 14 countries. Counting battery-electric cars only (11 countries), Tesla led: Tesla 11,472, BYD 6,343, with BYD ahead in 3 of those countries. (BYD’s figure for Austria is an estimate.)
What share of new cars in Europe went to Chinese brands in May 2026?
Chinese brands (BYD, MG, Leapmotor, Omoda/Jaecoo, XPeng and others) took 10.8% of new-car registrations in the 12 countries that publish every brand, or 14.0% including Chinese-owned Volvo, Polestar, smart and Lotus. In the 11 countries with data for both years, the share was 10.9% against 5.7% a year earlier.
Which electric car sold best in Europe in May 2026?
The Tesla Model Y, with 5,258 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 May 2026?
Battery-electric cars were 23.9% of new-car registrations across the 16 countries reporting both figures for May 2026. In the 13 countries with data for both years the share was 23.6%, against 17.1% a year earlier.
Which electric car grew fastest in Europe in May 2026?
By added battery-electric registrations year on year, the Tesla Model 3: 5,147 in May 2026 against 1,175 a year earlier, in the 8 countries that publish every model for both years.

Tesla vs BYD by country

Registrations in May 2026, with the change on May 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, May 2026
Country Tesla YoY Tesla YTD YTD YoY BYD (all) YoY BYD BEV BYD PHEV Ahead
Germany 5,111 +322% 21,089 +200% 6,168 +232% 1,877 4,290 BYD
United Kingdom 2,934 +46% 15,504 +3% 5,157 +71% n/a n/a BYD
Italy 654 −24% 5,495 +15% 6,019 +210% 1,079 4,960 BYD
Spain 1,691 +113% 6,527 +44% 4,516 +86% 1,648 2,868 BYD
France 5,446 +655% 21,220 +156% n/a – n/a ≥1,698 –
Netherlands 1,385 +31% 4,521 −7% 499 +58% 201 297 Tesla
Belgium 1,168 – – – 507 – n/a n/a Tesla
Austria 349 −46% 2,965 +38% 1,002 +82% 675e n/a BYD
Sweden 858 +71% 4,136 +57% 345 low base 46 n/a Tesla
Switzerland 373 −17% 1,618 −15% 580 low base 304 274 BYD
Finland 445 +199% 1,688 +143% 114 low base 105 9 Tesla
Ireland 264 low base 1,194 +20% 293 +157% 151 142 BYD
Czechia 158 +3% 830 −3% 97 low base 57 40 Tesla
Poland 184 – 1,230 – n/a – 200 n/a –
Tesla, all 14 countries 21,020 Every figure is a full count. Year to date in 12 countries: 86,787 (+62%).
Tesla, 12 countries with a year-earlier figure 19,668 (+128%) vs 8,643 a year earlier. Up in 9, down in 3.
Tesla vs BYD, 12 countries with every brand 15,390 vs 25,297 All powertrains, only countries whose sources list every brand, so a missing BYD figure is never read as zero. Battery-electric only (11 countries): Tesla 11,472, BYD 6,343.

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 May 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 May 2026 0 10k 20k 30k 40k ’24’25May 26 14,222 24,790

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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
May 202614,22224,790

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 May 2026 0% 5% 10% 15% ’24’25May 26 10.9% 14.1%

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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%
May 202610.9%14.1%

All new cars

10.8% across 12 countries (90,255 of 834,333); 14.0% including Chinese-owned brands.

Chinese-brand share by country, All new cars, May 2026
CountrySharevs 2025YTDLargest Chinese brands
United Kingdom
16.3%
 +7.7 pp 14.9% MG 7,463 · Jaecoo 5,207 · BYD 5,157
Spain
15.9%
 +5.8 pp 14.1% MG 4,725 · BYD 4,516 · Omoda 2,489
Italy
15.2%
 +8.1 pp 12.8% BYD 6,019 · MG 5,360 · Leapmotor 4,765
Austria
8.7%
 +4.0 pp 7.5% BYD 1,002 · MG 378 · Leapmotor 317
Belgium
7.7%
 – – MG 996 · BYD 507 · Leapmotor 418
Czechia
7.1%
 +4.3 pp 5.3% Omoda/Jaecoo 796 · MG 302 · BYD 97
Netherlands
6.9%
 +0.8 pp 6.6% BYD 499 · Leapmotor 467 · Jaecoo 286
Switzerland
6.5%
 +4.9 pp 5.6% BYD 580 · MG 314 · Zeekr 155
Ireland
5.6%
 +2.3 pp 5.5% BYD 293 · MG 96 · Leapmotor 38
Germany
4.9%
 +2.7 pp 3.5% BYD 6,168 · MG 3,174 · Leapmotor 1,217
Sweden
4.5%
 +1.3 pp 3.3% Lynk & Co 425 · BYD 345 · Zeekr 114
Finland
3.2%
 +2.4 pp 2.9% BYD 114 · MG 66 · XPeng 24

Battery-electric cars only

13.8% across 11 countries (17,890 of 129,479); 20.0% including Chinese-owned brands.

Chinese-brand share by country, Battery-electric cars only, May 2026
CountrySharevs 2025YTDLargest Chinese brands
Italy
45.4%
 – – Leapmotor 4,579 · BYD 1,079 · DR 118
Spain
25.5%
 +9.1 pp 24.7% BYD 1,648 · Deepal 430 · Leapmotor 382
Poland
23.7%
 – 18.9% BYD 200 · Leapmotor 117 · XPeng 46
Austria
17.0%
 +7.7 pp 15.1% BYD 675 · Leapmotor 271 · XPeng 118 (est.)
Switzerland
13.3%
 +10.5 pp 11.3% BYD 304 · Zeekr 155 · Leapmotor 81
Ireland
11.8%
 +5.3 pp 13.4% BYD 151 · MG 72 · Leapmotor 30
Czechia
11.1%
 +7.4 pp 8.6% BYD 57 · Leapmotor 31 · XPeng 25
Netherlands
7.9%
 −2.5 pp 8.1% Leapmotor 391 · BYD 201 · XPeng 89
Germany
7.3%
 +1.3 pp 6.6% BYD 1,877 · Leapmotor 1,128 · MG 661
Finland
5.8%
 +4.0 pp 5.0% BYD 105 · MG 51 · XPeng 24
Sweden
3.9%
 −1.0 pp 3.6% Zeekr 114 · XPeng 108 · MG 81

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, May 2026
ModelBEV registrationsYoYMoMLargest markets
1Tesla Model Y
5,258
 +59% +45% DE 2,410 · NL 711 · SE 672
2Tesla Model 3
5,153
 +338% +262% DE 2,664 · ES 1,183 · NL 670
3Skoda Elroq
4,801
 −1% −12% DE 3,083 · NL 430 · CH 320
4Skoda Enyaq
4,080
 +37% −9% DE 2,770 · SE 318 · CH 269
5Volkswagen ID.3
3,873
 +11% −8% DE 3,050 · NL 232 · CH 201
6Volkswagen ID.7
3,030
 −32% −12% DE 1,952 · SE 649 · NL 238
7Volkswagen ID.4/ID.5
2,811
 −14% −12% DE 1,453 · SE 423 · IE 330
8BMW iX1/X1
2,618
 +22% −21% DE 1,736 · SE 257 · NL 241
9Mercedes-Benz CLA
2,572
 low base −22% DE 1,647 · SE 200 · FI 191
10Kia EV3
2,325
 −21% +3% NL 638 · DE 509 · SE 496
11BMW iX3/X3
2,104
 >+999% −4% DE 1,253 · SE 302 · NL 285
12Volvo EX40/XC40
1,985
 +29% +2% SE 1,220 · NL 297 · DE 252
13Hyundai Inster
1,943
 −7% −11% DE 1,423 · NL 234 · ES 127
14Toyota C-HR+/C-HR
1,917
 new −5% ES 691 · NL 354 · DE 287
15Volvo EX30
1,894
 +1% +6% SE 658 · NL 402 · DE 386
16Renault 5
1,893
 +49% −2% DE 818 · NL 371 · ES 356
17Audi Q6 e-tron
1,724
 −20% −16% DE 1,209 · NL 139 · SE 95
18Audi Q4 e-tron
1,681
 −2% −18% DE 798 · NL 299 · ES 194
19Citroën C3/C3 Aircross
1,674
 +37% +14% DE 1,038 · ES 298 · NL 245
20Cupra Born
1,655
 −13% −9% DE 1,456 · NL 58 · CH 51
21Cupra Tavascan
1,636
 +12% −4% DE 1,370 · NL 72 · CH 69
22Kia EV2
1,608
 new +40% DE 684 · ES 348 · SE 212
23Mercedes-Benz EQB/GLB
1,603
 +43% +5% DE 1,070 · SE 184 · ES 88
24Audi A6 e-tron/A6
1,421
 −42% −23% DE 1,131 · SE 102 · NL 56
25Mini All models (not itemised)
1,403
 +60% +6% DE 1,403

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 ≥9,672
  2. 2Tesla Model 3 ≥6,714
  3. 3Skoda Elroq ≥5,943
  4. 4Leapmotor T03 ≥5,269
  5. 5Renault 5 ≥4,933
  6. 6Skoda Enyaq ≥4,080
  7. 7Volkswagen ID.3 ≥3,873
  8. 8Volkswagen ID.4/ID.5 ≥3,838
  9. 9Citroën C3/C3 Aircross ≥3,239
  10. 10Volkswagen ID.7 ≥3,030

Fastest-growing BEV models, year on year

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

Fastest-growing BEV models, year on year
ModelNowBeforeAddedChange
Tesla Model 3 5,147 1,175 +3,972 +338%
Mercedes-Benz CLA 2,481 31 +2,450 low base
BMW iX3/X3 2,091 135 +1,956 >+999%
Tesla Model Y 5,084 3,207 +1,877 +59%
Toyota C-HR+/C-HR 1,798 0 +1,798 new
Kia EV2 1,591 0 +1,591 new
Skoda Enyaq 4,041 2,949 +1,092 +37%
Kia EV4 1,090 0 +1,090 new
BYD Dolphin SurfCN 1,237 157 +1,080 +688%
Kia EV5 1,000 0 +1,000 new

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 3 5,153 1,423 +3,730 +262%
Tesla Model Y 5,258 3,619 +1,639 +45%
Kia EV2 1,608 1,148 +460 +40%
Toyota bZ4X 1,288 837 +451 +54%
Renault Scenic 843 604 +239 +40%
Mercedes-Benz GLC 948 726 +222 +31%
Citroën C3/C3 Aircross 1,674 1,464 +210 +14%
Renault Twingo 676 469 +207 +44%
Nissan Micra 700 518 +182 +35%
Fiat 500 1,091 915 +176 +19%

Top battery-electric models by country

Netherlands

  1. 1Tesla Model Y711
  2. 2Tesla Model 3670
  3. 3Kia EV3638
  4. 4Kia EV5517
  5. 5Skoda Elroq430
  6. 6Volvo EX30402
  7. 7Renault 5371
  8. 8Toyota C-HR+/C-HR354
  9. 9Audi Q4 e-tron299
  10. 10Volvo EX40/XC40297

Sweden

  1. 1Volvo EX40/XC401,220
  2. 2Tesla Model Y672
  3. 3Volvo EX30658
  4. 4Volkswagen ID.7649
  5. 5Kia EV3496
  6. 6Volkswagen ID.4/ID.5423
  7. 7Polestar 4392
  8. 8Skoda Enyaq318
  9. 9BMW iX3/X3302
  10. 10Toyota bZ4X277

Finland

  1. 1Tesla Model Y304
  2. 2Toyota bZ4X200
  3. 3Mercedes-Benz CLA191
  4. 4Toyota C-HR+/C-HR149
  5. 5Volkswagen ID.4/ID.5147
  6. 6Skoda Elroq140
  7. 7Tesla Model 3140
  8. 8Skoda Enyaq139
  9. 9smart #5119
  10. 10Volvo EX40/XC40107

Germany

  1. 1Skoda Elroq3,083
  2. 2Volkswagen ID.33,050
  3. 3Skoda Enyaq2,770
  4. 4Tesla Model 32,664
  5. 5Tesla Model Y2,410
  6. 6Volkswagen ID.71,952
  7. 7BMW iX1/X11,736
  8. 8Mercedes-Benz CLA1,647
  9. 9Cupra Born1,456
  10. 10Volkswagen ID.4/ID.51,453

France

Top-N only
  1. 1Tesla Model Y3,877
  2. 2Renault 53,040
  3. 3Renault Scenic1,640
  4. 4Tesla Model 31,561
  5. 5Renault Megane1,298
  6. 6Peugeot 30081,214
  7. 7Skoda Elroq1,142
  8. 8Citroën C3/C3 Aircross1,084
  9. 9Peugeot 2081,044
  10. 10Volkswagen ID.4/ID.51,027

Spain

  1. 1Tesla Model 31,183
  2. 2Toyota C-HR+/C-HR691
  3. 3BYD Dolphin Surf587
  4. 4Tesla Model Y505
  5. 5Kia EV3495
  6. 6Deepal S05387
  7. 7Renault 5356
  8. 8Kia EV2348
  9. 9BYD Atto 2347
  10. 10Citroën C3/C3 Aircross298

Italy

Top-N only
  1. 1Leapmotor T034,250
  2. 2Dacia Spring1,447
  3. 3Tesla Model Y537
  4. 4BYD Dolphin Surf502
  5. 5Citroën C3/C3 Aircross481
  6. 6Renault Twingo293
  7. 7Leapmotor B10262
  8. 8Volvo EX30247
  9. 9BYD Sealion 7209
  10. 10BMW iX1/X1177

Switzerland

  1. 1Skoda Elroq320
  2. 2Skoda Enyaq269
  3. 3Tesla Model Y213
  4. 4Volkswagen ID.3201
  5. 5Audi Q4 e-tron181
  6. 6Volvo EX30175
  7. 7BMW iX1/X1155
  8. 8Tesla Model 3153
  9. 9Zeekr 7X147
  10. 10Renault Twingo137

Ireland

  1. 1Volkswagen ID.4/ID.5330
  2. 2Tesla Model 3145
  3. 3Toyota bZ4X136
  4. 4Skoda Elroq134
  5. 5Skoda Enyaq129
  6. 6Tesla Model Y119
  7. 7Volkswagen ID.392
  8. 8BYD Sealion 765
  9. 9Toyota C-HR+/C-HR62
  10. 10Kia EV352

Poland

  1. 1Tesla Model Y174
  2. 2Toyota C-HR+/C-HR119
  3. 3Mercedes-Benz CLA91
  4. 4BYD Dolphin Surf76
  5. 5Toyota bZ4X68
  6. 6Leapmotor B1064
  7. 7Mercedes-Benz EQA/GLA64
  8. 8Skoda Elroq55
  9. 9BYD Sealion 753
  10. 10Audi Q4 e-tron51

Czechia

  1. 1Skoda Enyaq226
  2. 2Skoda Elroq206
  3. 3Tesla Model Y150
  4. 4Toyota C-HR+/C-HR43
  5. 5Volkswagen ID.338
  6. 6Volvo EX3028
  7. 7BMW iX3/X325
  8. 8Mercedes-Benz CLA24
  9. 9BYD Dolphin22
  10. 10Hyundai Kona21

Brand league table

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

122,881 battery-electric cars in 10 countries: NL, SE, FI, DE, ES, IT, 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, May 2026
BrandGroupRegistrationsShareYoY
1Volkswagen Volkswagen Group
11,537
 9.4% −9%
2Tesla
11,123
 9.1% +133%
3Skoda Volkswagen Group
9,110
 7.4% +13%
4BMW BMW Group
8,259
 6.7% +32%
5Kia Hyundai Motor Group
7,699
 6.3% +63%
6Mercedes-Benz Mercedes-Benz Group
7,415
 6.0% +96%
7LeapmotorCN
6,785
 5.5% +220%
8BYDCN
5,668
 4.6% +78%
9Renault Renault Group
5,251
 4.3% +127%
10Audi Volkswagen Group
5,109
 4.2% −25%
11VolvoCN-owned Geely Holding
5,037
 4.1% +5%
12Hyundai Hyundai Motor Group
4,209
 3.4% −3%
13Toyota
3,711
 3.0% +213%
14Cupra Volkswagen Group
3,509
 2.9% +3%
15Opel Stellantis
2,609
 2.1% +3%
16Citroën Stellantis
2,529
 2.1% +28%
17Mini BMW Group
2,510
 2.0% +45%
18Ford
2,351
 1.9% −19%
19Peugeot Stellantis
2,192
 1.8% +53%
20Fiat Stellantis
2,021
 1.6% +92%
21Dacia Renault Group
1,910
 1.6% −5%
22PolestarCN-owned Geely Holding
1,399
 1.1% +5%
23XPengCN
1,358
 1.1% +155%
24MGCN SAIC
1,250
 1.0% −23%
25smartCN-owned smart Automobile (Mercedes-Benz/Geely JV)
1,237
 1.0% +105%
26Porsche Volkswagen Group
1,049
 0.8% −27%
27Nissan
896
 0.7% +63%
28Mazda
697
 0.6% low base
29Jeep Stellantis
559
 0.5% +87%
30DeepalCN Changan
527
 0.4% 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, May 2026
CountryNew carsYoYBEVBEV shareBEV YoYPHEVSource · first in
Netherlands 29,724 −2% 12,380
41.6%
 +15% 6,605 RDW · 2026-09-23
Norway 15,369 n/c 15,022
97.7%
 n/c – Statistics Norway (SSB); Opplysningsrådet for veitrafikken (OFV) · 2026-09-23
Sweden 25,985 +1% 10,718
41.3%
 +13% 6,645 Mobility Sweden · 2026-09-23
Denmark 19,174 +6% 15,018
78.3%
 +37% 99 Mobility Denmark; Danmarks Statistik · 2026-09-23
Finland 6,783 −1% 3,309
48.8%
 +44% 722 Traficom (Finnish Transport and Communications Agency) · 2026-09-23
Germany 239,448 0% 59,969
25.0%
 +39% 27,921 Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt (KBA) · 2026-09-23
United Kingdom 160,662 +7% 43,931
27.3%
 +34% 22,167 SMMT · 2026-09-23
France 128,484 +4% 37,853
29.5%
 +95% 7,718 Avere-France; PFA (Plateforme automobile) · 2026-09-23
Spain 112,678 −1% 12,343
10.9%
 +34% 13,560 Dirección General de Tráfico (DGT) · 2026-09-23
Italy 151,659 +8% 13,305
8.8%
 +86% 15,433 UNRAE · 2026-09-23
Belgium 33,625 – –
–
 – – FEBIAC · 2026-09-23
Switzerland 19,741 −1% 5,140
26.0%
 +23% 2,293 auto-schweiz (data: ASTRA/OFROU, MOFIS register) · 2026-09-23
Austria 25,529 +5% 6,598
25.9%
 +22% – Statistik Austria · 2026-09-23
Portugal 25,080 – 6,988
27.9%
 – – ACAP · 2026-09-23
Ireland 8,036 +38% 2,326
28.9%
 +114% 1,075 SIMI (Society of the Irish Motor Industry) · 2026-09-24
Poland 48,583 – 2,035
4.2%
 – – Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji (CEPiK) · 2026-09-24
Czechia 20,463 +5% 1,356
6.6%
 +12% 1,098 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 May 2026 0% 10% 20% 30% ’24’25May 26 21.4%

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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%
February 202617.4%
March 202619.9%
April 202620.7%
May 202621.4%

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CSV May 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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