In November, new passenger car registrations in Germany increased by 31% year-over-year to 260,512, which is the highest monthly result in 17 months. This strong rebound also improved the year-to-date result to 2,337,039, reducing the year-over-year gap to just 2.4%.
However, the most important thing is the spectacular expansion of plug-in electric car sales to new all-time high levels.
Last month, 102,561 new passenger plug-in electric cars were registered in Germany, which is 50% more than a year ago and the first-ever six-digit result. The market share increased to 39.4% (compared to 34.4% a year earlier) and also never was higher.
Both all-electric and plug-in hybrid cars set new monthly sales and market share records. We guess that in December things might be even better.
Results by type:
- BEVs: 57,980 – up 44% at 22.3% market share
- PHEVs: 44,581 – up 60% at 17.1% market share
- Total: 102,561 – up 50% at 39.4% market share
Plug-in electric car registrations in Germany – November 2022
So far this year, more than 658,000 new passenger plug-in cars were registered in Germany:
- BEVs: 366,234 – up 19% at 15.7% market share
- PHEVs: 292,292 – down 0.1% at 12.5% market share
- Total: 658,526 – up 10% at 28.2% market share
For reference, in the 12 months of 2021, a total of over 681,000 plug-in cars were registered.
Top brands
In November, the Volkswagen brand once again was the top one in terms of plug-in electric car registrations (12,542). However, in terms of battery-electric car registrations, #1 was Tesla (10,819 compared to 8,648 VW).
This outstanding result allowed Tesla to also move ahead of Mercedes-Benz, Audi and BMW in terms of the overall number of rechargeable car registrations.
Plug-in car registrations by brands (at least 2,000) last month:
- Volkswagen: 12542 - 8648 BEVs and 3894 PHEVs
- Tesla: 10819 - 10819 BEVs
- Mercedes-Benz: 10499 - 3350 BEVs and 7149 PHEVs
- Audi: 7052 - 3241 BEVs and 3811 PHEVs
- BMW: 5891 - 1262 BEVs and 4629 PHEVs
- Ford: 5086 - 387 BEVs and 4699 PHEVs
- SEAT: 4902 - 2089 BEVs and 2813 PHEVs
- Opel: 4815 - 3072 BEVs and 1743 PHEVs
- Hyundai: 4810 - 3275 BEVs and 1535 PHEVs
- Fiat: 3989 - 3989 BEVs and PHEVs
- Kia: 3086 - 867 BEVs and 2219 PHEVs
- Volvo: 3040 - 1158 BEVs and 1882 PHEVs
- Renault: 3019 - 2861 BEVs and 158 PHEVs
- Skoda: 2366 - 1121 BEVs and 1245 PHEVs
- Peugeot: 2339 - 1551 BEVs and 788 PHEVs
- Dacia: 2035 - 2035 BEVs
Year-to-date the list (at least 20,000 plug-ins):
- Volkswagen: 72113 - 46403 BEVs and 25710 PHEVs
- Mercedes-Benz: 66271 - 20597 BEVs and 45674 PHEVs
- BMW: 56292 - 18964 BEVs and 37328 PHEVs
- Tesla: 52462 - 52462 BEVs
- Audi: 48414 - 23410 BEVs and 25004 PHEVs
- Hyundai: 38413 - 26510 BEVs and 11903 PHEVs
- SEAT: 31417 - 9191 BEVs and 22226 PHEVs
- Opel: 27267 - 21397 BEVs and 5870 PHEVs
- Ford: 26488 - 4485 BEVs and 22003 PHEVs
- Kia: 25367 - 9421 BEVs and 15946 PHEVs
- Renault: 24206 - 21224 BEVs and 2982 PHEVs
- Fiat: 23305 - 23305 BEVs
Top models
In November, the Tesla Model 3 noted an impressive number of 6,811 new registrations (compared to 3,867 Model Y), most likely related to a massive delivery from China.
The Fiat 500 electric (3,904) was not able to keep up with such a sales surge and dropped one position in the year-to-date ranking to third, behind two Teslas.
Other great-selling all-electric models were the Volkswagen ID.3 (3,619) and Volkswagen ID.4/ID.5 counted together (2,871).
The top all-electric models year-to-date:
- Tesla Model Y - 28,044
- Tesla Model 3 - 24,275
- Fiat 500 electric - 23,123
- Volkswagen ID.4/ID.5 - 17,656
- Volkswagen ID.3 - 16,421
- Hyundai Kona Electric - 13,667
- Hyundai Ioniq 5 - 11,248
- Audi e-tron - 11,084
- Volkswagen e-up! - 10,998
- Skoda Enyaq iV - 10,921
- Opel Corsa-e - 10,867
- Audi Q4 e-tron - 10,198
- Dacia Spring - 10,308
- BMW i3 - 9,668
- MINI Cooper SE - 9,118
- Renault ZOE - 8,990
Official stats (KBA):
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Source: KBA