Germany reported its highest new passenger car registration results in November, with its recorded YoY increase of 31% to 260,512 units, as per InsideEVs. With this significant recovery, the YTD result increased to 2,337,039, and the YoY difference narrowed to 2.4%.
Notably, the new plug-in electric car registrations greatly influenced the remarkable passenger car registration results in November.
Plug-in electric car registrations in Germany
Germany recorded its first-ever six-digit result last month with 102,561 new passenger plug-in electric car registrations, representing a YoY increase of 50%. Likewise, its market share also recorded an all-time high of 39.4% from 34.4% a year earlier.
Remarkably, the market share and monthly sales of battery electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles broke previous highs.
Plug-in electric car registrations results – November 2022
- 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 results – January to November
- 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
Notably, the year-to-date result slightly decreased from last year’s record of 681,000 registrations.
Top brands
November results
In November, Volkswagen again dominated the plug-in electric vehicles market with 12,542 registrations. However, Tesla ranked first in battery-electric vehicle registrations with 10,819 units compared to VW’s 8,648 units.
BEV and PHEV registrations combined, Mercedes-Benz ranked third with 10499 units. It is followed by Audi (7052) and BMW (5891).
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
YTD results
Unsurprisingly, German automaker Volkswagen remains the market leader in its homeland with a YTD registration of 72113 units. Mercedes-Benz follows it with 66271 and BMW with 56292 units.
Meanwhile, Tesla (52462) and Audi (48414) secured fourth and fifth places.
Year-to-date 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
Two Tesla vehicles dominated the YTD of plug-in electric car registration results in Germany with the Tesla Model Y (28,044) and Tesla Model 3 (24,275).
The Fiat 500 electric ranked third with 23,123 registrations. It is followed by Volkswagen ID.4/ID.5 with 17,656 and Volkswagen ID.3 with 16,421 units.
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
Germany is undoubtedly embracing electric vehicles, as demonstrated by the country’s expanding EV market. It would be interesting to see how these brands and models fare in the coming new year.
