Poland registered 3,478 new battery-electric cars in September 2026, 21.9% fewer than a year earlier, according to the monthly alternative-fuel report of PZPM, the carmakers' association, which draws on the Central Vehicle Register (CEP). It was the fifth month in a row below the same month of 2025. The overall market grew 13% to 56,354 cars, so the electric share fell to 6.2%, from 8.9%.
Plug-in hybrids went the other way, rising 47.7% to 4,958 registrations for an 8.8% share. Conventional and mild hybrids took almost half the market.
The September numbers
| Poland, new passenger cars | September 2026 | Change | Jan–Sep 2026 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All powertrains | 56,354 | +13.0% | 470,497 | +10.0% |
| Battery-electric (BEV) | 3,478 | −21.9% | 24,404 | −5.5% |
| Plug-in hybrid (incl. EREV) | 4,958 | +47.7% | 41,497 | +88.9% |
| Hybrid and mild hybrid | 27,361 | +17.6% | 234,140 | +11.7% |
| BEV share | 6.2% | 8.9% a year earlier | 5.2% | 6.0% a year earlier |
PZPM blames the missing purchase subsidy. Poland's national EV grant, which paid up to 40,000 zł per car, spent its 1.18 billion zł budget by the end of January, three months before its planned close. On 1 October the national environment fund raised that budget by 82 million zł to 1.26 billion zł, techlove.pl reports, but only to pay applications filed conditionally after the money ran out.
Where Tesla stands
Tesla registered 671 cars in Poland in September, down 21.2% from 851, according to PZPM's monthly brand table. Tesla sells only electric cars, so that is 19.3% of all BEV registrations, against 19.1% a year earlier. Tesla fell with the market but held its share of it.
No other brand came close. PZPM publishes its electric-car rankings only as year-to-date totals, so the September figures below are TeslAnt's arithmetic: the January–September tables minus the January–August ones. The method reproduces PZPM's official September totals for all BEVs (3,478) and for Tesla (671) exactly.
| Brand | BEVs, September 2026 | BEVs, September 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Tesla | 671 | 851 |
| Audi | 282 | 296 |
| Toyota | 280 | 28 |
| Škoda | 212 | 195 |
| Mercedes-Benz | 200 | 235 |
| Ford | 193 | 228 |
| Volkswagen | 166 | 63 |
| Leapmotor | 158 | 324 |
| BYD | 153 | 524 |
| BMW | 99 | 133 |
Brands outside this year's top ten registered 1,064 between them. On the same arithmetic, the Model Y accounted for 463 of Tesla's September registrations, down 14%, and the Model 3 for 207, down 34%.
Over nine months Tesla remains Poland's largest electric brand, with 2,977 registrations and 12.2% of the BEV market. It is the only one of the top three that is shrinking, down 12.1%, while BMW rose 19.8% to 2,248 and Mercedes-Benz 59.6% to 2,006. The Model Y (1,892) and Model 3 (1,068) are still the two best-selling electric models, ahead of the Škoda Elroq (968).
September was also a quarter-end month. In August, Tesla registered just 69 cars in Poland.
Private buyers grew, companies did not
PZPM splits registrations between private buyers and businesses. Tesla's registrations to private buyers rose 23.5% to 252. Subtracting those from the total leaves 419 registrations to companies, against 647 a year earlier, a fall of about 35%.
The buyers went to plug-in hybrids
BYD shows where the market moved. It registered 1,365 cars in September, up 86%, but by the same arithmetic only 153 were electric, 71% fewer than a year ago. This year it has registered 7,581 plug-in hybrids, up 358%, led by the Seal U. Chery (5,028) and Omoda (4,271) follow it in PZPM's plug-in hybrid ranking.
What it means
For a Polish buyer, the subsidy has gone and the electric market is shrinking, but Tesla's place in it is unchanged at roughly one in five. Neighbours are moving faster: Czechia's electric share reached a record 11.2% in September, and Germany's reached 34.5%. PZPM, citing ACEA, puts Poland's January–August BEV share at 5.1%, among the EU's lowest alongside Croatia (4.2%), Slovakia (6.6%) and Czechia (7%).
The charging network keeps growing regardless. Poland ended September with 7,326 public charging stations, 1,415 of them above 100 kW, according to EIPA data cited by PZPM.