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Battery-electric vehicles (16.4%) and hybrid-electric vehicles (34.6%) together accounted for more than half of new car registrations in the European Union in the year to October 2025, new data from the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA) has found.
Hybrid-electric vehicles (HEVs) accounted for the highest share of new car registrations in the period, followed by petrol vehicles (27.4%). Battery-electric vehicles (BEVs) came next, followed by diesel (9.2%), plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (9.1%) and others (3.3%).
There was a small rise in new car registrations in the European Union in the first ten months of the year, up 1.4% on the same period the previous year, with October the fourth month in a row in which registrations have risen. The overall volume of registrations, meanwhile, remains below the levels recorded prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Commenting on the figures, ACEA said the BEV share ‘is still below the pace needed at this stage of the transition. Hybrid-electric vehicles lead as the most popular power type choice among buyers, with plug-in hybrids continuing to gain momentum.’
In terms of the best-performing manufacturers in the period, BYD saw a 239.6% increase in registrations between January and October 2025, with Jaguar (-80.7%), Lancia/Chrysler (-68.3%) and Tesla (-39.2%) among the brands to see declines.
In the first ten months of the year, some 1,473,447 new battery-electric cars were registered, with the four largest markets for BEVs in the EU all seeing gains – Germany (+39.4%), Belgium (+10.6%), the Netherlands (+6.6%), and France (+5.3%).
Hybrid-electric car registrations totalled 3,109,362 units, again driven by growth in the four biggest markets – Spain (+27.1%), France (+26.3%), Germany (+10.3%), and Italy (+8.9%).
For PHEVs, meanwhile, some 819,201 units were registered in the first ten months of the year, after strong increases in Spain, Italy and Germany.
The share of petrol and diesel cars continued to decline, however, ACEA’s data showed, with petrol registrations falling by 18.3% in the period, led by significant declines in France (-32.2%), Germany (-22.5%), Italy (-16.9%), and Spain (-13.7%). The diesel car market was down 24.5% in the 10-month period.
‘By October 2025 year-to-date (YTD), new EU car registrations increased by 1.4% compared to the same period last year, marking the fourth consecutive month of growth,’ ACEA commented.
ACEA represents sixteen car, van, truck and bus manufacturers across Europe, including BMW Group, DAF Trucks, Daimler Truck, Ferrari, Ford of Europe, Honda Motor Europe, Hyundai Motor Europe, Iveco Group, JLR, Mercedes-Benz, Nissan, Renault Group, Stellantis, Toyota Motor Europe, Volkswagen Group, and Volvo Group. Read more here and here.
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