The overall passenger car market in the European Union (EU) remained stable in August 2025, with a slight decline of 0.1% compared to the same month in 2024.
A total of 667,786 new vehicles were registered, with battery electric vehicles (BEVs) accounting for a 15.8% market share, up from 12.6% the previous year.
When including data from EFTA countries (Iceland, Norway, Switzerland, and Liechtenstein), which added 17,044 units, and the United Kingdom (UK) with 21,969 units, a total of 159,810 electric cars were registered across the region.
BEVs represented one in every five new car registrations in the EU + EFTA + UK region.
Germany led the European market with 39,367 new BEV registrations in August, an increase of 45.7%.
The UK followed with 21,969 units (+14.7%), ahead of France (16,992 units, +29.3%), Norway (13,482 units, +28.6%), Belgium and the Netherlands, both with slightly over 9,000 units.
In Spain, registrations more than doubled, reaching 7,032 units, up from 2,696 in August 2024 (+160.8%).
From January to August 2025, a total of 1,132,603 new BEVs were registered in the EU, marking a 24.8% increase year-on-year.
The one-million mark had already been surpassed in July. At the end of the first half of the year, the figure stood at 869,271 units.
Plug-in hybrids (PHEVs) and other hybrid vehicles also recorded significant growth.
PHEV registrations in the EU reached 70,545 units (+54.5%).
Including EFTA countries and the UK, the figure totalled 82,684 vehicles(+56.3%).
Hybrid vehicles — including full and mild hybrids, according to the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA) — remained the leading powertrain type in the EU, with 229,970 new registrations (+14.1%).
Across Europe, hybrid registrations reached 264,317 units (+11.7%).
By contrast, internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles continued to decline. Petrol car registrations in the EU fell to 178,156 units (-16.3%) and diesel cars to 59,327 units (-17.5%).
Across all powertrains, Volkswagen Group led the market with 190,142 units (+6.3%).
However, as BYD now sells both BEVs and PHEVs (9,130 units, +201.3%), only Tesla’s trend can be directly identified from ACEA’s data.
In August, Tesla registered 8,220 vehicles in the EU, down from 12,966 in the same month last year, representing a 36.6% decline.
Despite the year-on-year drop, the monthly decrease was less severe than in previous months.
Between January and August, Tesla’s EU registrations fell by 42.9% year-on-year — from 150,037 units in 2024 to 85,673 in 2025.
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