New car registrations in Europe (EU, EFTA, and UK combined) rose in May 2025, compared with May 2024, according to the ACEA. For the entire region, electric and hybrid powerplants gained considerably from January-May 2024 to January-May 2025:
- Hybrids (not counting plug-ins) are now the best sellers, rising from a 30% share to take 34%.
- Gasoline engines fell from #1 to #2, losing seven points—dropping from a 35% share to just 28%.
- Battery electrics, despite still-falling Tesla sales, grew in share from 14% to 17%—more precisely, they rose from 13.9% to 17.4%. In absolute numbers, during this first 5/12 of the year, battery-electrics went from 152,087 sales to 193,493. Total European sales were around 1.1 million in both years.
- PHEVs, or plugin hybrids, also rose, from 7% to 10%.
- Diesels continue to fall, dropping from 12% to 8%, with gasoline-only engines being the only variety that lost ground.
- Others, including hydrogen cars, rose slightly, from 2% to 3%, but that means just 31,256 cars.
Electric cars may lose ground in the United States, but they appear to still be growing in Europe and Asia. The players in EVs are changing, though. Volkswagen’s share of all sales grew from 25.6% to 26.7% of European sales, from January-through-May 2024 to the same period in 2025. Stellantis’s sales dropped by a larger amount, from 16.9% to 15.4%. The change wasn’t uniform; Peugeot, Alfa Romeo, and Jeep all gained. Peugeot sold 302,964 cars in the period, while Alfa Romeo sold just 27,993. Opel, Citroën, Fiat, DS, Lancia, and Dodge/Ram all had double-digit losses, particularly Lancia, which fell by 73% to just 5,627.
For the American marques, Jeep remains the leader, growing from 58,659 to 61,482 as new vehicles or variants were added or spread to other countries. Jeep retained its 1.1% market share, about half that of Fiat and over twice that of Alfa Romeo. DS remains quite niche, dropping to 13,634 sales—more than double Lancia’s figure. Dodge and Ram remain even more niche, with a 0.0% share and just 2,028 sales.
Among other automakers, Renault gained by 7% to a 10.2% share; Hyundai lost sales, dropping to 8.0% share; and Toyota dropped as well, falling to 7.2%. Among the electric-only plays, SAIC rose by 29%, to 126,116 sales—a 2.3% share. Tesla, accordingly, fell to 75,196 sales, a 37% drop, taking just a 1.3% share. Other Chinese automakers were not tracked to the ACEA.
David Zatz started what was to become the world’s biggest Mopar site (Allpar) in 1994. After a chemo-induced 2007-2010 break, during which he wrote car books covering Vipers, minivans, and Jeeps, he returned with Patrick Rall to create StellPower.com for daily news, and to set up MoTales for mo’ tales (Chrysler history and “permanent” car and truck pages). He most recently wrote Century of Chrysler, a 100-year retrospective on the marque.
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