Fleet Data

Romania registered 825 electric cars in July 2026, up 57% year on year, in a total market that fell 28.2%. BYD reached a record fifth place overall on 672 units and the Dolphin Surf became the first Chinese model to lead the country's EV chart, while not a single Dacia Spring was registered.

The IEA's Global EV Outlook 2026 puts the oil the world's EV fleet avoided burning in 2025 at about 1.7 million barrels a day — roughly Indonesia's entire oil demand — and expects that to triple to around 5 mb/d by 2030. China and the European Union account for most of it.

Dopravní podnik Ostrava has signed a framework agreement with Solaris for up to 70 Urbino 12 electric buses, delivered across 2027 and 2028 in two range variants, five years after the city took the Czech Republic's first Solaris electric buses.

Battery-electric cars took 35% of the French market in July 2026 — 44,378 registrations, up 126.7% year on year — while petrol and diesel together managed 13.2%. Renault took three of the top nine places outright and the Tesla Model Y fell to 12th.

Startline Motor Finance's August Used Car Tracker finds one in three secondhand dealers worried about electrification — the lowest level since October 2022. Half of those surveyed backed a used EV grant and nearly two-thirds supported free or discounted home chargers as purchase incentives.

Kia has passed 100,000 cumulative battery-electric sales in Germany since the Soul EV arrived in 2014. First-half 2026 EV sales rose 87% year on year and electric cars accounted for 41.9% of Kia's German registrations against a 24.8% market average. A separate study of 9,953 battery diagnostics puts Kia first for capacity retention at 100,000 km.

ACEA figures put Kia's PV5 at 37% of Europe's small electric van segment after 13,166 registrations in the first half of 2026. It is the best-seller in 12 countries and holds more than half the segment in five of them, including 63% in Denmark and 54% in the UK — from a standing start less than a year ago.

The July 2026 Electric Vehicle Intelligence Report surveyed 1,861 consumers across all 27 EU member states and found Tesla last of 28 brands on net favourability at -4. Musk's own score falls from -31 to -47 when respondents are reminded of his donations to Donald Trump — a bigger drag on Tesla than BYD's Chinese state ties are on BYD.

ACEA's first-half 2026 figures put electric buses at 27.7% of the EU bus market while electrically-chargeable trucks reached 4.8%, up from 3.6% a year earlier. Both grew, and trucks grew faster in percentage terms — but the gap between the two is structural, not a matter of enthusiasm.

The global market for batteries in electric and hybrid cars grew 20% in the first half of 2026, and CATL took roughly 40% of it. Together with BYD, two Chinese manufacturers now account for more than half of every EV battery installed worldwide.

KBA figures put Tesla at 367 new registrations in Germany in July 2026, a 66.9% fall year on year and a 95% drop from June. It ends a five-month run of triple-digit growth, and it happened in a month when the German BEV market itself grew 61.7%.

Tesla's Model Y sold 8,705 units in South Korea in July 2026, beating Hyundai's Grandeur to become the country's best-selling vehicle across all brands. Tesla led the import market for a sixth consecutive month with 10,237 units.

Royal Mail has put its 9,000th electric van into service at Colchester Delivery Office, less than eight months after reaching 8,000. Nearly a third of the UK's delivery routes are now zero-emission and 44 delivery offices run entirely on electricity.

Germany registered 78,609 new battery-electric cars in July 2026, up 61.7% year on year for a 29.3% share, while petrol fell 29.7% and diesel 21.8% in a market that grew just 1.2%.

Battery-electric cars took 11,672 of Denmark's 14,562 new registrations in July 2026, an 80.2% share, and a record 97% of private buyers chose electric after the country cut its registration tax.

Norway's battery-electric share hit a record 97.6% in July 2026, but the brand table was upended: Toyota led with 1,260 registrations while Tesla managed 24 cars, a 97% year-on-year fall driven by shipment timing rather than demand.

UK battery-electric registrations rose 44.5% to a record 43,106 cars in July 2026 for a 27.5% share, but the SMMT still expects the year to land at 27.4% against a 33% ZEV mandate target.

Tesla China's July wholesale volume hit 93,579 units, its highest of 2026 and up 37.9% year over year, but the growth is coming from Giga Shanghai exports while domestic sales keep sliding.

Tesla has built its 10 millionth vehicle, a Diamond Black Model Y that rolled off the Fremont line on 30 July 2026. It makes Tesla the first pure-EV maker to reach the mark — though the milestone lands just as the company's growth has flattened.

The Schwarz Group, parent of Lidl and Kaufland, has temporarily removed battery-electric cars from its German company car list, citing a volatile market, shifting regulation and weak three-year residual values.

Battery-electric cars took 25.6% of European new car sales in June 2026, the strongest month yet, capping a first half in which 1.6 million BEVs were registered across the EU, EFTA and the UK.

Global EV sales jumped 35% in Q2 2026 versus Q1, with 50 countries setting quarterly records, the IEA reports. Europe kept pace at roughly a quarter of the market, while US demand fell after incentive cuts.

First-half 2026 registration data shows BYD and Tesla ending the period with an identical 2.4% share of the European market — the first time BYD has matched Tesla — though both brands are growing fast and the comparison is not like-for-like.

Tesla reported record Q2 2026 revenue of $28.2 billion on 22 July, up 26% year over year, but profitability cratered: operating margin fell to 1.4% from 4.1%, adjusted EPS of $0.33 missed the ~$0.53 consensus, and net income slipped to around $1.1 billion as spending on AI and robotaxi development jumped 47%. Shares fell in after-hours trading.