By August 2025 year-to-date (YTD), new EU car registrations edged down by 0.1% compared to the same period last year, despite marking a second consecutive month of positive growth.

Passenger car registration: an increase of 24.2% compared with August 2024. Since the beginning of the year, 212,738 new cars were registered, an increase of 4.5% in deliveries compared with last year. The market share of pure EVs currently stands at 17.8%. Commercial Vehicles above 3.5 tons registration: 22.2% increase compared with August 2024. Since January, 9,740 CVs and Buses have been registered, the same as Jan-Aug last year.

Two main types of hybrid-electric vehicles exist, and they have different advantages and different applications, but both have fuel efficiency advantages over conventional internal combustion engined vehicles.