Passenger car registrations by country
Registrations increased in all of the 10 largest European markets in March 2026, with Austria registering the biggest increase (+27%) compared with March 2025 (see Table A5 in the Appendix).
Looking at new BEV registrations in January–March 2026, Germany and Italy had BEV market shares of 23% and 8%, respectively. These represent increases of 6 and 3 percentage points compared with the same period in 2025.
France and Spain, the third and fourth largest markets, had increases of 10 and 2 percentage points in January–March 2026, reaching BEV shares of 28% and 9%, respectively.
Nordic countries led Europe’s battery electric car registration shares in January–March 2026, with Norway and Denmark already reaching shares of 98% and 79%, respectively, followed by Finland (47%) and Sweden (41%; Figure 3). Belgium (34%), Iceland (32%), the Netherlands (31%), France (28%), and Luxembourg (27%) all had BEV shares of 25% or greater. Also with BEV market shares above of the European average were Portugal (24%), Germany (23%), Austria (22%), and Ireland (21%). In January–March 2026, Denmark recorded the greatest increase in BEV market share compared with the same period in the previous year (+14 percentage points).
