Overview
- Germany registered 52,425 battery‑electric cars in October, equal to a 21.0% market share and a 47.7% year‑on‑year increase.
- Hybrids remained the largest drivetrain category with 101,598 registrations for a 40.6% share, including 30,946 plug‑in hybrids up 60.0%.
- Total passenger car registrations reached 250,133, up 7.8% year on year, with commercial buyers accounting for 65.6% of the market.
- Skoda’s Elroq led October BEV registrations with 3,320 units, while Volkswagen’s ID.7 stayed atop the year‑to‑date BEV ranking with 28,289.
- Tesla posted its weakest month in more than three years and dropped out of the October BEV top ten, as average new‑car CO2 emissions fell 11.4% to 100.6 g/km.