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August 2026 edition 17 countries Final figures, compiled retrospectively

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

Tesla registered 15,142 cars in the 17 countries with a Tesla figure for August 2026 (for Norway, only the models in the national top-model list, so a minimum, compared with the same models a year earlier). In the 15 countries with a year-earlier figure it was up 3% (14,027 vs 13,597): up in 4, down in 11. Excluding France (+3,707), Tesla was down 27%. BYD (battery-electric and plug-in hybrid) outsold Tesla in 11 of the 14 countries that publish every brand: 19,512 BYD vs 9,407 Tesla. Counting battery-electric cars only, in 11 countries: Tesla 5,277, BYD 5,177 (BYD's figure for Austria is an estimate).

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Battery-electric cars 223,473 +59% YoY in 14 countries Total of 16 countries
BEV share of new cars 28.4% 19.2% a year earlier Same 14 countries in both years
Chinese brands’ share 11.3% 5.3% a year earlier (same 12) All new cars, 14 countries · definition
BYD vs Tesla BYD19,512 Tesla9,407 BYD ahead in 11 of the 14 countries that publish every brand
17 countries in this edition
  • Netherlands 49% BEV
  • Norway 99% BEV
  • Sweden 45% BEV
  • Denmark 86% BEV
  • Finland 52% BEV
  • Germany 32% BEV
  • United Kingdom 30% BEV
  • France 39% BEV
  • Spain 14% BEV
  • Italy 6% BEV
  • Belgium brands only, no BEV
  • Switzerland 30% BEV
  • Austria 29% BEV
  • Portugal 36% BEV
  • Ireland 29% BEV
  • Poland 5% BEV
  • Czechia 8% BEV

August 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 August 2026?
Tesla registered 15,142 cars in the 17 countries covered here that have a Tesla figure for August 2026 (for Norway, only models in the national top-model list, so a minimum). In the 15 countries with a year-earlier figure, Tesla was up 3% (14,027 vs 13,597): up in 4, down in 11 (Norway compared on the same models in both years). Without France (+3,707 cars), Tesla was down 27%. Year to date in 12 countries: 144,616 (+54%).
Did BYD outsell Tesla in Europe in August 2026?
Yes, counting all powertrains. In the 14 countries that publish every brand, BYD registered 19,512 cars (battery-electric and plug-in hybrid) and Tesla 9,407; BYD was ahead in 11 of them. BYD’s 19,512 in those countries alone is more than Tesla’s 15,142 across all 17 countries. Counting battery-electric cars only (11 countries), the two were about level: Tesla 5,277, BYD 5,177, with BYD ahead in 8 of those countries. (BYD’s figure for Austria is an estimate.)
What share of new cars in Europe went to Chinese brands in August 2026?
Chinese brands (BYD, MG, Leapmotor, Omoda/Jaecoo, XPeng and others) took 11.3% of new-car registrations in the 14 countries that publish every brand, or 13.9% including Chinese-owned Volvo, Polestar, smart and Lotus. In the 12 countries with data for both years, the share was 11.3% against 5.3% a year earlier.
Which electric car sold best in Europe in August 2026?
The Tesla Model Y, with at least 8,172 battery-electric registrations across 12 countries (counting the top-10 lists published in the United Kingdom, France and Italy). Among the 9 countries that publish every model, the Skoda Elroq led with 4,877.
What share of new cars in Europe were electric in August 2026?
Battery-electric cars were 29.8% of new-car registrations across the 16 countries reporting both figures for August 2026. In the 14 countries with data for both years the share was 28.4%, against 19.2% a year earlier.
Which electric car grew fastest in Europe in August 2026?
By added battery-electric registrations year on year, the Mercedes-Benz GLC: 3,408 in August 2026, with no battery-electric registrations a year earlier (a new electric model), in the 9 countries that publish every model for both years.

Tesla vs BYD by country

Registrations in August 2026, with the change on August 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, August 2026
Country Tesla YoY Tesla YTD YTD YoY BYD (all) YoY BYD BEV BYD PHEV Ahead
Germany 3,034 +111% 32,258 +182% 5,256 +372% 1,829 3,427 BYD
United Kingdom 2,180 −33% 30,369 +13% 3,867 +120% n/a n/a BYD
France 5,038 +279% 36,161 +148% n/a – n/a ≥1,588 –
Spain 306 −79% 9,750 +5% 3,190 +75% 1,357 1,833 BYD
Italy 267 −36% 8,290 +13% 2,579 +194% 487 2,105 BYD
Belgium 905 +87% – – 1,001 +124% n/a n/a BYD
Netherlands 1,032 +33% 7,994 −1% 676 +84% 190 485 Tesla
Norway ≥627 −79% – – ≥662 +90% n/a n/a –
Denmark 967 – – – 229 – n/a n/a Tesla
Austria 95 −65% 4,387 +11% 931 +20% 546e n/a BYD
Portugal 148 – – – 474 – n/a n/a BYD
Switzerland 69 −75% 3,369 −4% 521 low base 230 281 BYD
Ireland 136 −41% 2,188 +12% 280 −15% 142 138 BYD
Sweden 123 −41% 5,849 +47% 285 low base 129 n/a BYD
Finland 106 −20% 2,415 +97% 103 low base 84 19 Tesla
Czechia 39 low base 1,586 +18% 120 low base 45 73 BYD
Poland 70 −71% 2,290 – n/a – 138 n/a –
Tesla, all 17 countries 15,142 Includes minimums for Norway. Year to date in 12 countries: 144,616 (+54%).
Tesla, 15 countries with a year-earlier figure 14,027 (+3%) vs 13,597 a year earlier. Up in 4, down in 11. Without France (+3,707), down 27%. Norway: minimum compared with the same models a year earlier.
Tesla vs BYD, 14 countries with every brand 9,407 vs 19,512 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 5,277, BYD 5,177.

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 Aug 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 August 2026 0 10k 20k 30k 40k ’24’25’26Aug 26 7,387 17,808

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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
June 202633,52927,080
July 20261,97224,166
August 20267,38717,808

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 August 2026 0% 5% 10% 15% ’24’25’26Aug 26 11.4% 14.0%

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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%
May 202610.9%14.1%
June 202610.8%14.0%
July 202611.0%13.8%
August 202611.4%14.0%

All new cars

11.3% across 14 countries (70,753 of 623,997); 13.9% including Chinese-owned brands.

Chinese-brand share by country, All new cars, August 2026
CountrySharevs 2025YTDLargest Chinese brands
United Kingdom
21.0%
 +12.4 pp 16.1% MG 4,960 · Jaecoo 4,022 · BYD 3,867
Spain
17.7%
 +5.4 pp 14.8% BYD 3,190 · MG 2,532 · Ebro 1,541
Italy
14.7%
 +6.8 pp 13.2% Omoda/Jaecoo 2,862 · BYD 2,579 · MG 2,561
Portugal
13.0%
 – – BYD 474 · MG 340 · Leapmotor 251
Austria
11.7%
 +5.8 pp 8.6% BYD 931 · MG 552 · Leapmotor 295
Denmark
11.2%
 – – XPeng 521 · Zeekr 402 · MG 389
Netherlands
8.4%
 +4.3 pp 7.2% BYD 676 · Leapmotor 375 · MG 231
Belgium
8.4%
 +4.9 pp – BYD 1,001 · Jaecoo 288 · MG 273
Switzerland
8.3%
 +5.7 pp 6.5% BYD 521 · MG 316 · Leapmotor 202
Czechia
7.4%
 +3.2 pp 5.7% Omoda/Jaecoo 589 · MG 231 · Chery 147
Ireland
6.6%
 +0.4 pp 6.2% BYD 280 · MG 132 · XPeng 53
Germany
6.1%
 +3.9 pp 4.2% BYD 5,256 · MG 3,307 · Leapmotor 2,254
Sweden
4.9%
 +2.9 pp 3.9% BYD 285 · Lynk & Co 203 · Zeekr 196
Finland
3.3%
 +1.2 pp 3.0% BYD 103 · MG 55 · XPeng 36

Battery-electric cars only

12.7% across 11 countries (16,029 of 126,590); 17.7% including Chinese-owned brands.

Chinese-brand share by country, Battery-electric cars only, August 2026
CountrySharevs 2025YTDLargest Chinese brands
Spain
33.6%
 +10.0 pp 26.6% BYD 1,357 · Leapmotor 600 · Deepal 285
Poland
24.0%
 +4.4 pp 19.6% Leapmotor 146 · BYD 138 · Omoda 74
Italy
23.9%
 – – BYD 487 · Leapmotor 310 · MG 62
Austria
18.7%
 +2.4 pp 15.4% BYD 546 · MG 239 · Leapmotor 226 (est.)
Switzerland
14.7%
 +9.9 pp 12.3% BYD 230 · Leapmotor 163 · Zeekr 150
Ireland
14.1%
 −2.0 pp 14.2% BYD 142 · MG 94 · XPeng 53
Czechia
10.9%
 +6.4 pp 9.1% Leapmotor 58 · BYD 45 · XPeng 26
Germany
9.9%
 +3.9 pp 7.8% Leapmotor 2,147 · BYD 1,829 · MG 1,389
Netherlands
8.6%
 +2.4 pp 8.3% Leapmotor 322 · Zeekr 211 · BYD 190
Sweden
7.4%
 +3.6 pp 4.8% Zeekr 196 · MG 182 · XPeng 141
Finland
5.5%
 +1.2 pp 5.2% BYD 84 · MG 49 · XPeng 36

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, August 2026
ModelBEV registrationsYoYMoMLargest markets
1Skoda Elroq
4,877
 +40% −13% DE 3,038 · NL 606 · CH 302
2BMW iX1/X1
3,438
 +37% −11% DE 2,449 · NL 373 · SE 206
3Mercedes-Benz GLC
3,408
 new +47% DE 2,164 · SE 444 · CH 246
4Volkswagen ID.7
3,330
 +30% −24% DE 2,236 · SE 621 · NL 141
5Skoda Enyaq
3,310
 +35% −22% DE 2,140 · CH 275 · SE 249
6Volkswagen ID.4/ID.5
3,232
 +18% −36% DE 2,189 · SE 335 · ES 188
7Kia EV3
3,022
 +23% +8% DE 1,170 · NL 565 · SE 505
8Kia EV2
2,867
 new +27% DE 1,371 · NL 565 · SE 374
9Mercedes-Benz CLA
2,594
 +288% −26% DE 1,749 · NL 200 · ES 167
10Cupra Raval
2,538
 low base +22% DE 1,663 · NL 376 · SE 223
11Citroën C3/C3 Aircross
2,498
 +104% +7% DE 1,722 · ES 343 · NL 277
12Tesla Model Y
2,490
 +17% +98% DE 1,426 · NL 549 · ES 134
13BMW iX3/X3
2,456
 low base −19% DE 1,008 · NL 450 · SE 442
14Tesla Model 3
2,419
 −10% low base DE 1,605 · NL 482 · ES 170
15Audi Q6 e-tron
2,305
 +52% −17% DE 1,738 · NL 128 · SE 102
16Audi A6 e-tron/A6
2,024
 +45% −8% DE 1,749 · SE 125 · NL 60
17Ford Explorer
2,008
 +25% −20% DE 1,514 · NL 138 · PL 87
18Volkswagen ID.3
1,884
 −37% −36% DE 1,467 · ES 109 · CH 92
19Volvo EX30
1,737
 +117% −25% DE 562 · SE 503 · NL 282
20Renault Twingo
1,694
 low base +1% DE 1,363 · ES 150 · NL 115
21Renault 5
1,648
 0% −19% DE 754 · NL 362 · ES 224
22Hyundai Inster
1,591
 −9% −33% DE 878 · NL 419 · ES 103
23Mercedes-Benz EQB/GLB
1,556
 +77% −8% DE 875 · SE 230 · NL 120
24Dacia Spring
1,490
 +129% +45% DE 1,418 · NL 23 · ES 22
25Volvo EX40/XC40
1,483
 +52% −15% SE 755 · DE 305 · NL 260

Wider ranking, including top-10 lists

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

  1. 1Tesla Model Y ≥8,172
  2. 2Skoda Elroq ≥7,100
  3. 3Renault 5 ≥4,741
  4. 4Volkswagen ID.4/ID.5 ≥4,537
  5. 5Skoda Enyaq ≥4,117
  6. 6Citroën C3/C3 Aircross ≥3,963
  7. 7Tesla Model 3 ≥3,806
  8. 8Kia EV3 ≥3,757
  9. 9Kia EV2 ≥3,632
  10. 10BMW iX1/X1 ≥3,609

Fastest-growing BEV models, year on year

Ranked by registrations added vs August 2025, in the same 9 countries. Models with at least 300 registrations this month.

Fastest-growing BEV models, year on year
ModelNowBeforeAddedChange
Mercedes-Benz GLC 3,408 0 +3,408 new
Kia EV2 2,867 0 +2,867 new
Cupra Raval 2,538 2 +2,536 low base
BMW iX3/X3 2,456 15 +2,441 low base
Mercedes-Benz CLA 2,594 669 +1,925 +288%
Renault Twingo 1,694 2 +1,692 low base
Skoda Elroq 4,877 3,490 +1,387 +40%
Kia EV5 1,316 0 +1,316 new
Leapmotor B10CN 1,276 0 +1,276 new
Citroën C3/C3 Aircross 2,498 1,227 +1,271 +104%

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 2,419 96 +2,323 low base
Tesla Model Y 2,490 1,261 +1,229 +98%
Mercedes-Benz GLC 3,408 2,327 +1,081 +47%
Kia EV2 2,867 2,267 +600 +27%
Mazda CX-6e 623 84 +539 low base
Volkswagen Polo 701 219 +482 +220%
Cupra Raval 2,538 2,075 +463 +22%
Dacia Spring 1,490 1,029 +461 +45%
Kia EV3 3,022 2,805 +217 +8%
Opel Grandland 916 731 +185 +25%

Top battery-electric models by country

Netherlands

  1. 1Skoda Elroq606
  2. 2Kia EV2565
  3. 3Kia EV3565
  4. 4Tesla Model Y549
  5. 5Tesla Model 3482
  6. 6BMW iX3/X3450
  7. 7Hyundai Inster419
  8. 8Kia EV5389
  9. 9Cupra Raval376
  10. 10BMW iX1/X1373

Sweden

  1. 1Volvo EX40/XC40755
  2. 2Volkswagen ID.7621
  3. 3Kia EV3505
  4. 4Volvo EX30503
  5. 5Mercedes-Benz GLC444
  6. 6BMW iX3/X3442
  7. 7Kia EV5387
  8. 8Kia EV2374
  9. 9Volkswagen ID.4/ID.5335
  10. 10Toyota bZ4X294

Finland

  1. 1Toyota bZ4X257
  2. 2Mercedes-Benz GLC171
  3. 3BMW i4/4 Series141
  4. 4Skoda Elroq140
  5. 5BMW iX3/X3129
  6. 6Volkswagen ID.4/ID.5128
  7. 7Mercedes-Benz CLA118
  8. 8Skoda Enyaq115
  9. 9Mercedes-Benz EQB/GLB113
  10. 10Kia EV3105

Germany

  1. 1Skoda Elroq3,038
  2. 2BMW iX1/X12,449
  3. 3Volkswagen ID.72,236
  4. 4Volkswagen ID.4/ID.52,189
  5. 5Mercedes-Benz GLC2,164
  6. 6Skoda Enyaq2,140
  7. 7Audi A6 e-tron/A61,749
  8. 8Mercedes-Benz CLA1,749
  9. 9Audi Q6 e-tron1,738
  10. 10Citroën C3/C3 Aircross1,722

United Kingdom

Top-N only
  1. 1Tesla Model 31,296
  2. 2Tesla Model Y884
  3. 3Opel Frontera875
  4. 4Jaecoo 5855
  5. 5Mercedes-Benz CLA821
  6. 6Skoda Enyaq807
  7. 7Skoda Elroq805
  8. 8Renault 5736
  9. 9Kia EV3735
  10. 10Audi Q6 e-tron603

France

Top-N only
  1. 1Tesla Model Y4,622
  2. 2Renault 52,357
  3. 3Renault Scenic1,753
  4. 4Renault Twingo1,603
  5. 5Citroën C3/C3 Aircross1,465
  6. 6Skoda Elroq1,418
  7. 7Volkswagen ID.4/ID.51,305
  8. 8Peugeot 2081,031
  9. 9Renault Megane945
  10. 10Kia EV2765

Spain

  1. 1Kia EV3433
  2. 2BYD Atto 2373
  3. 3BYD Dolphin Surf343
  4. 4Citroën C3/C3 Aircross343
  5. 5Leapmotor B10332
  6. 6Toyota C-HR+/C-HR291
  7. 7Skoda Elroq284
  8. 8Kia EV2260
  9. 9BYD Seal242
  10. 10Deepal S05235

Italy

Top-N only
  1. 1BYD Dolphin Surf220
  2. 2Fiat 500197
  3. 3BMW iX3/X3190
  4. 4Leapmotor T03187
  5. 5Tesla Model Y176
  6. 6BMW iX1/X1171
  7. 7Volkswagen ID.3112
  8. 8Cupra Raval108
  9. 9Toyota C-HR+/C-HR100
  10. 10Tesla Model 391

Switzerland

  1. 1Skoda Elroq302
  2. 2Skoda Enyaq275
  3. 3Mercedes-Benz GLC246
  4. 4BMW iX3/X3217
  5. 5BMW iX1/X1139
  6. 6Volvo EX30134
  7. 7Volkswagen ID. Polo111
  8. 8Kia EV3105
  9. 9Mercedes-Benz CLA103
  10. 10Renault 597

Ireland

  1. 1Volkswagen ID.4/ID.5151
  2. 2Kia EV2145
  3. 3Tesla Model Y124
  4. 4Kia EV3110
  5. 5Kia EV597
  6. 6Skoda Elroq95
  7. 7Audi Q6 e-tron71
  8. 8Skoda Enyaq71
  9. 9BMW iX3/X362
  10. 10BYD Sealion 762

Poland

  1. 1Toyota bZ4X97
  2. 2Ford Explorer87
  3. 3Skoda Elroq78
  4. 4Audi Q6 e-tron75
  5. 5Omoda 574
  6. 6Toyota C-HR+/C-HR73
  7. 7Leapmotor B1067
  8. 8Audi Q4 e-tron60
  9. 9Kia EV458
  10. 10Mercedes-Benz CLA55

Czechia

  1. 1Skoda Elroq214
  2. 2Skoda Enyaq166
  3. 3Skoda Peaq114
  4. 4Skoda Epiq74
  5. 5Mercedes-Benz GLC50
  6. 6Volkswagen ID.342
  7. 7Toyota bZ4X40
  8. 8Ford Puma39
  9. 9Mercedes-Benz CLA33
  10. 10BMW iX3/X325

Brand league table

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

120,274 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 9 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, August 2026
BrandGroupRegistrationsShareYoY
1Volkswagen Volkswagen Group
10,479
 8.7% +14%
2Kia Hyundai Motor Group
9,602
 8.0% +146%
3BMW BMW Group
9,472
 7.9% +55%
4Skoda Volkswagen Group
8,642
 7.2% +43%
5Mercedes-Benz Mercedes-Benz Group
8,622
 7.2% +106%
6Audi Volkswagen Group
5,998
 5.0% +20%
7Tesla
5,180
 4.3% +1%
8Renault Renault Group
4,992
 4.2% +87%
9Ford
4,658
 3.9% +47%
10Cupra Volkswagen Group
4,651
 3.9% +58%
11BYDCN
4,631
 3.9% +44%
12VolvoCN-owned Geely Holding
4,346
 3.6% +68%
13Hyundai Hyundai Motor Group
4,103
 3.4% +2%
14LeapmotorCN
3,836
 3.2% +199%
15Toyota
3,293
 2.7% +231%
16Opel Stellantis
3,134
 2.6% +73%
17Citroën Stellantis
2,880
 2.4% +100%
18MGCN SAIC
2,215
 1.8% +123%
19Mini BMW Group
2,146
 1.8% −18%
20Fiat Stellantis
2,054
 1.7% +35%
21XPengCN
1,928
 1.6% +323%
22Peugeot Stellantis
1,891
 1.6% +77%
23Dacia Renault Group
1,562
 1.3% +129%
24Mazda
1,298
 1.1% +376%
25Nissan
1,196
 1.0% +543%
26Porsche Volkswagen Group
1,041
 0.9% +12%
27PolestarCN-owned Geely Holding
1,011
 0.8% −17%
28smartCN-owned smart Automobile (Mercedes-Benz/Geely JV)
756
 0.6% +17%
29ZeekrCN Geely Holding
676
 0.6% +168%
30DeepalCN Changan
399
 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, August 2026
CountryNew carsYoYBEVBEV shareBEV YoYPHEVSource · first in
Netherlands 26,380 +1% 13,038
49.4%
 +44% 4,883 RDW · 2026-09-23
Norway 13,438 n/c 13,259
98.7%
 n/c – Statistics Norway (SSB); Opplysningsrådet for veitrafikken (OFV) · 2026-09-23
Sweden 22,584 +12% 10,069
44.6%
 +49% 4,988 Mobility Sweden · 2026-09-23
Denmark 16,165 +24% 13,887
85.9%
 +55% 20 Mobility Denmark; Danmarks Statistik · 2026-09-23
Finland 6,643 +26% 3,427
51.6%
 +77% 624 Traficom (Finnish Transport and Communications Agency) · 2026-09-23
Germany 212,563 +3% 68,930
32.4%
 +75% 25,406 Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt (KBA) · 2026-09-23
United Kingdom 94,236 +14% 28,063
29.8%
 +28% 13,707 SMMT · 2026-09-23
France 94,349 +7% 36,595
38.8%
 +115% 6,006 Avere-France; PFA (Plateforme automobile) · 2026-09-23
Spain 69,400 +13% 9,450
13.6%
 +32% 9,726 Dirección General de Tráfico (DGT) · 2026-09-23
Italy 70,304 +4% 4,486
6.4%
 +36% 8,446 UNRAE · 2026-09-23
Belgium 28,295 +8% –
–
 – – FEBIAC · 2026-09-23
Switzerland 16,047 −1% 4,843
30.2%
 +49% 1,903 auto-schweiz (data: ASTRA/OFROU, MOFIS register) · 2026-09-23
Austria 21,788 +2% 6,316
29.0%
 +46% – Statistik Austria · 2026-09-23
Portugal 14,086 – 5,079
36.1%
 – 2,465 ACAP · 2026-09-23
Ireland 7,788 +3% 2,261
29.0%
 +7% 1,650 SIMI (Society of the Irish Motor Industry) · 2026-09-24
Poland 45,741 +17% 2,273
5.0%
 −31% – Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji (CEPiK) · 2026-09-23
Czechia 17,718 +1% 1,497
8.4%
 +78% 953 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 August 2026 0% 10% 20% 30% ’24’25’26Aug 26 26.9%

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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%
June 202624.2%
July 202623.5%
August 202626.9%

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CSV August 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.

Read the data dictionary first: the same cars appear at total, brand and model level, so filter to one level before summing. RSS feed for new editions · JSON: latest.json · Past editions: /data/europe-ev-registrations/europe-ev-registrations-YYYY-MM.csv.

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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