94,086 battery electric cars were registered in October 2026, 37.0% of the German market and up 79.5% year on year. The Volkswagen ID.7 was the battery electric car with the most registrations in the month.
In October 2026, 254,492 new cars were registered in Germany, 1.7% more than in the same month of 2025. Of these, 94,086 were battery electric (BEV), 37.0% of the total and 79.5% more than in October last year. The figures come from the KBA, Germany's Federal Motor Transport Authority, and were published on 4 November 2026.
In September, according to the KBA, the 88,599 battery electric cars registered had reached 34.5% of the market, more than a third. According to electrive, that was the highest share until then, and October exceeded it.
Other drive types lost ground. Petrol cars came to 38,516, down 40.5%, with 15.1% of the market. Diesel cars came to 23,882, down 21.6%, with 9.4%. Hybrids, including plug-in hybrids, totalled 95,931, down 5.6%; of these, 28,499 were plug-in hybrids, down 7.9%, with an 11.2% share of the market.
According to the KBA's figures by make and model series, published on 6 November, the Volkswagen ID.7 was the battery electric car with the most registrations in October, at 3,576. It was followed by the Skoda Elroq (3,542) and the electric Mercedes-Benz GLC (3,429). Of the ten model series with the most battery electric registrations in the month, six belong to Volkswagen Group brands: the ID.7, the ID.4 and ID.5 (which the KBA counts in a single line) and the ID.3, from Volkswagen; the Elroq and the Enyaq, from Skoda; and the Tavascan, which the KBA counts under Seat. Across all drive types, the Volkswagen brand was once again the one with the most registrations, with 18.2% of the market.
From January to October, 698,230 new battery electric cars were registered in Germany, out of 2,476,290 cars in total: more than one in four. Over the year to date, according to the same figures by model, the battery electric car with the most registrations is the Skoda Elroq (34,441), ahead of the Tesla Model Y (31,998).
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