EU Car Registrations Rise 2.1% in November

2025-12-23 05:06 By Chusnul Chotimah 1 min. read

Passenger car registrations in the European Union climbed 2.1% year on year to 887,491 units in November 2025, following a 5.8% rise in October.

This marked the fifth consecutive month of growth, with two of the EU’s four largest markets recording gains.

Registrations in Spain rose 12.9%, while those in Germany increased by 2.5%.

Meanwhile, registrations in France edged down 0.3%, and they remained unchanged in Italy.

In the battery electric vehicle (BEV) segment, registrations jumped 44.1%, boosted particularly by surges in Spain (60.9%), Germany (58.5%), France (47.5%), and the Netherlands (26.5%).

For the first eleven months of 2025, total EU car registrations grew 1.4% compared with the same period last year.

Meanwhile, BEVs totaled 1.7 million registrations, capturing 16.9% of the EU market, up from a low baseline of 13.4% in the year to November 2024.



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