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Battery electric vehicles accounted for 16.4% of newly registered cars in the EU during the first ten months of 2025, according to figures from the European Automobile Manufacturers\u2019 Association (ACEA). That compares with 13.2% over the same period in 2024.<\/p>\n
A total of 1,473,447 new electric cars were registered across the EU27 between January and October, over 301,000 more than a year earlier. Germany was the largest contributor, with more than 434,600 new EV registrations and one of the strongest growth rates in the bloc, up 39.4% year-on-year.<\/p>\n
Among the EU\u2019s four biggest economies, Spain recorded the sharpest rise, with EV registrations jumping 89.7% to 81,100. Italy saw an increase of 26.5%, while France posted more modest growth of 5.3% over the same period.<\/p>\n
In percentage terms, Poland recorded the steepest growth in the bloc. New EV registrations surged 124.6% year on year, although the total of newly registered EVs \u2014 30,641 vehicles \u2014 meant battery-electric cars still represented only 6.4% of its overall market. <\/p>\n
Some countries with low market share showed outstanding increases in their battery electric vehicle sales, including Slovenia (+99.3%), Slovakia (+77.5%), Lithuania (+62.7%) and Bulgaria (+58.1%).<\/p>\n
Registrations fell in a handful of countries, including Croatia, Luxembourg, Malta, Romania, and Estonia.<\/p>\n
The EU car market is growing<\/p>\n
Across all fuel types, new EU car registrations rose by 1.4% in the first ten months of 2025 compared with the same period last year, marking a fourth consecutive month of growth, ACEA said.<\/p>\n
Hybrid-electric cars remained the most popular choice among EU buyers, taking a 34.6% share of the market. Petrol and diesel models together accounted for 36.6%, down from 46.3% a year earlier.<\/p>\n
Among major manufacturers, Volkswagen Group saw sales rise 5.1% in the first ten months of the year, BMW was up 6.3% and Mercedes sales increased by 2%. Renault reported a 7% jump in sales. By contrast, Stellantis (-6%), Toyota (-5.7%) and Hyundai (-4%) all recorded declines. Tesla sales dropped by nearly 40%, while Chinese carmaker BYD registered an almost 240% surge in year-to-date sales in the EU.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published on 25\/11\/2025 – 14:30 GMT+1 Battery electric vehicles accounted for 16.4% of newly registered cars in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,62386,1214,9117,59,4868,3965,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-283572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-car-sales","tag-electric-cars","tag-evs","tag-gb","tag-hybrid","tag-sales","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}