In November, battery electric vehicle registrations in Europe maintained their upward trajectory

According to data published by the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA), in November 2025 a total of 188,730 purely battery electric passenger cars were registered in the European Union. This represents an impressive growth of 44.1 percent compared with the same month of the previous year. As a result, the market share of purely battery electric vehicles in this market stood at 21.3 percent in November, out of total registrations amounting to 887,491 vehicles.

Thus, from January to November 2025, cumulative battery electric car registrations reached 1,662,399 units, with a market share of 16.9 percent out of a total of 9.86 million new vehicles. This represents a slight increase of 1.4 percent compared with the same period of the previous year. ACEA highlights that this 16.9 percent figure is in line with annual forecasts, although it insists that there is still room to accelerate the transition to electric mobility.

Analysing by powertrain, registrations of purely battery electric vehicles grew by 27.6 percent over the year to date, surpassed only by plug-in hybrids, which increased by 33.1 percent, although with a much lower total figure of just over 913 thousand units.

Registrations of combustion-engine vehicles continue to fall

Returning to the data for November, registrations of non-plug-in hybrids amounted to nearly 302 thousand vehicles, with a growth that was nevertheless quite modest, at only 4.2 percent. The most negative figure once again corresponded to non-electrified vehicles: petrol car registrations fell by more than 20 percent, with a total of 206,448 units, while diesel registrations also declined sharply, with just 70,120 units.

An important point worth highlighting is that 62 percent of purely battery electric vehicle registrations were concentrated in just four European Union countries: Germany (with growth of 41.3 percent), Belgium (with an increase of 10.2 percent), the Netherlands (with an 8.8 percent rise) and France (with an additional 9.1 percent). Likewise, the boost to plug-in hybrid vehicle registrations came mainly from Spain (with an increase of 113 percent), Italy (with 80.6 percent) and Germany (62.7 percent).