Europe EV Sales Report: BEVs Jump 50% & Reach 26% Market Share! - CleanTechnica

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August 2, 20261 minute

José Pontes

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Tesla and the Chinese push the market upwards — EV Share Jumps to 37% in Europe!

Thanks to a number of factors (new cheaper models, high gas prices, mass arrival of Chinese models, etc.), EVs are currently in high demand in Europe. Some 366,000 fully electric vehicles were registered in Europe in June, which is not only a 50% increase YoY, and the fastest growth rate this year, but also a new BEV record!

Overall, plugin vehicles were up 41% YoY, dragged down by plugin hybrids, which grew only 23%, thus placing June’s plugin share at 37%.

This difference in growth is also visible in the BEV vs. PHEV sales breakdown, with BEVs having 71% of all plugin sales in June. That placed their yearly average at 69%, which is their highest share since … 2012! Yep, like in China, it seems PHEVs are starting to lose the race to their BEVs counterparts…

With BEVs pulling the market upwards, the year-to-date share for BEVs is now at 23% (33% for PHEVs and BEVs combined) , which is already higher than the 2025 final result (20% BEV share, 29% adding PHEVs). This is an encouraging sign if we want to be close to 100% PEV share by the mid-2030s.

Looking at the other fuels, there aren’t really major changes in trends in an overall market that grew 13% YoY in June to 1.4 million units. Plugless hybrids (HEVs) followed the overall trend by growing 17% YoY, to a market share of 35% — added to the 37% of plugins, that meant that in June, 72% of all cars sold in Europe had some kind of electrification, while pure ICEVs are … going down the drain.

Petrol was down 12% in June to 21% share, while diesel (-17% YoY) is now bordering on irrelevance, having just 6% of the market. A few more months, and probably i won’t even mention diesel anymore.

Looking at the best sellers in several size categories , the EV push is starting to get visible, while we are far from the EV domination we see in China, things have indeed moved on in Europe compared to last year.

Before, the only EVs that we saw on the overall podiums were Teslas. Now, the A-segment has the Leapmotor T03 as the overall 3rd placed model, closely followed by the Dacia Spring (5,676 units). Perhaps unsurprisingly. After all, the same happened in China before — it is in the city car category that EVs have the highest possibilities to have a fully 100% plugin podium sooner. First, the ICE competition is shrinking. Then, not only do we have the Leapmotor T03 already on the podium, but the new Renault Twingo is set to become a success, probably selling at higher levels than the Chinese EV. And … with a new Dacia Spring set to land soon, we have three competitive electric city cars ready to take over the podium.

Oh! And let’s not forget that a new Panda city car (Pandina?) is set to start in 2027, both in BEV and ICE versions. Speaking of which, adding an ICE version to the new Panda is another bad decision from Stellantis product planners, because while it is true that the 500e lost sales as years went by, it wasn’t because people wanted to go back to ICE cars, but because other, better, cheaper EVs started to land on the market, cannibalizing the 500e’s sales.

So, if I were them, I would make the new generation 100% BEV and keep on selling the old ICE generation for petrol diehards, as the "Panda Classic" or whatever.

Looking at the other segments, the B-segment is still ICE-heavy, with only the #3 Peugeot 208 having some degree of electrification (16% of sales are from the BEV version), the C-segment is a bit more electrified (#2 VW Golf is 14% PHEV, and #3 VW Tiguan is 32% PHEV), but it is the full size category where electrification is significant, with the #1 Mercedes E-Class having 36% of sales coming from the PHEV version, the #2 BMW 5 Series being 89% electrified (either with the BEV i5 or the PHEV versions), and the #3 BMW X5 having 28% of its sales coming from the PHEV version. And the 4th best selling model in this category was the fully electric Audi A6 e-tron, with 3,850 units.

So, A, D, and E segments have good electrification perspectives, but the all-important B and C segments, the most important in Europe, are the laggards.

Looking at the best selling EV models , the big news this month was Tesla winning 1st and 2nd place. BYD had 3rd place to itself thanks to the Atto 2 (BYD Yuan Up in Euro-spec). Here’s a more detailed analysis of the top 5 EVs this month:

#1 Tesla Model Y — Tesla’s midsize crossover is back in the driver’s seat thanks to 34,480 registrations in June, which represented a particularly strong high tide. Deliveries jumped 43% YoY...