Electric cars take a record 37% of Germany’s new-car market

Battery-electric cars took a record 37% of Germany’s new-car market in October, with 94,086 registrations. That was 79.5% more than a year earlier, far outpacing growth in the wider market.

Germany registered 254,492 new passenger cars in total, an increase of 1.7%. Petrol-only cars accounted for 38,516 registrations and diesels for 23,882: together, substantially fewer than battery-electric models. Conventional hybrids were counted separately, as were plug-in hybrids.

The plug-in hybrid market moved in the opposite direction. Registrations fell 7.9% to 28,499, giving those cars an 11.2% share. Adding them to battery-electric cars puts vehicles with a charging socket at 48.2% of October registrations.

The shift extends beyond a single month. From January to October, Germany registered 698,230 battery-electric cars, up 60.7% on the same period in 2025. They represented 28.2% of the 2.48 million new passenger cars registered over those ten months.

VDIK, the association representing international manufacturers, calculates that its international-brand grouping supplied half of October’s battery-electric registrations. The figures describe Germany’s new-car market; they do not mean that 37% of cars already on German roads are electric.

Sources

• VDIK: October registrations and powertrain figures
• ADAC: Germany’s October new-car market
• Electrek: Germany’s record electric-car share