More than half of the new cars registered in Belgium in September 2026 ran on batteries alone. Febiac, the Belgian automotive federation, put the battery-electric share at 50.9% of 32,124 passenger-car registrations, the first month the country has crossed half. The previous record was 46.2%, set in August. The market itself grew 1.9% on September 2025, with the same number of working days.
Tesla was the third-largest brand of the month with 2,352 registrations, 7.32% of the market and more than double the 1,027 of a year earlier. Only BMW and Mercedes registered more.
The numbers
| September 2026 | |
|---|---|
| New passenger cars | 32,124 (+1.9%) |
| Battery-electric share | 50.9% (record; 46.2% in August) |
| Battery-electric share, January to September | 39.1% (34.7% in full-year 2025) |
| Battery-electric share among private buyers | 20.2% (first month above a fifth) |
| Market, January to September | 320,374 (-1.1%) |
The private-buyer figure is the one Febiac singles out. Belgian electrification has been carried by company cars, whose tax treatment favours zero-emission vehicles, and the federation calls the move past 20% among private customers "a particularly interesting signal" that interest is spreading beyond the professional market.
Brand ranking
Febiac's by-make table for the month:
| Rank | Brand | September 2026 | Change on September 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BMW | 3,244 | +24.4% |
| 2 | Mercedes | 2,457 | -2.5% |
| 3 | Tesla | 2,352 | +129.0% |
| 4 | Volkswagen | 2,332 | -27.4% |
| 5 | Renault | 2,086 | +4.8% |
| 6 | Peugeot | 1,928 | +13.0% |
| 7 | Škoda | 1,330 | -25.5% |
| 8 | Kia | 1,288 | +21.1% |
| 9 | Dacia | 1,234 | -15.8% |
| 10 | Audi | 1,203 | -33.4% |
The gainers are brands with broad electric line-ups; the biggest losers are the Volkswagen Group's volume marques. Below the top ten, BYD registered 946 cars (+114%), Leapmotor 376 (+304%) and XPeng 184 (+122%). Those three Chinese brands together registered more cars than Ford and Opel combined.
Over nine months Tesla sits twelfth on 10,644 registrations, up 43.4% on the 7,425 of the same period in 2025, for a 3.32% share. BYD is seventeenth on 6,672, up 116%.
Where Belgium stands in Europe
Belgium joins the Netherlands, which cleared half for the first time in the same month at 52.8%. Sweden reached 49%, Portugal 47.7%, France a record 41.6% and Germany 34.5%. Among the markets TeslAnt tracks, only Norway, Denmark and the Netherlands posted a higher September share.
What could move it
EV Belgium, the sector association, used the milestone to ask the federal government to leave the agreed company-car tax path alone. "The fact that more than half of vehicles are electric is a historic step, but it is not an end in itself," its director Philippe Vangeel said on 2 October. The association wants the deductibility schedule for zero-emission company cars kept as legislated, a social-leasing scheme for new and used electric cars, and warns that a proposed road-vignette system may not reward zero-emission driving enough.
For Tesla, Belgium in September was a brand at more than twice last year's volume in a market where electric buying is still led by company cars. The 20.2% private share is the number to watch, because that is where growth beyond the fleet market has to come from.