Europe Full Year 2025: BEV sales up 29.7% to 19.5% share, Dacia Sandero and Renault Clio dominate

The Dacia Sandero is the most popular vehicle in Europe for the 2nd straight year.

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Preliminary data from ACEA has European new car sales (EU+EFTA+UK) up 2.4% year-on-year in 2025 to 13,271,270 units, that’s over 400,000 more than in 2024. Among the Big 5 markets, Spain is up 12.4%, the UK up 3.5% and Germany up 1.4% while Italy is down -2.1% and France down -5%. The best performing markets this year are Iceland (+42.4%), Norway (+39.4%), Lithuania (+39.3%), Latvia (+31.4%), Bulgaria (+15.1%) and Austria (+12.3%). At the other end of the scale, Estonia sinks -48.6%, Malta is down -15.6% and Belgium off -7.5%.

After dimming -1.3% in 2024 due to the end of incentives in Germany, BEV sales rebound back up 29.7% this year to a fantastic 2,585,187 units and 19.5% share vs. 15.4% a year ago. BEV volumes are up 43.2% in Germany to 545,142 and 19.1% share vs. 13.5% in 2024, up 23.9% in the UK to 473,348 and 23.4% share vs. 19.6% a year ago and up 12.5% in France to 326,922 and 20% share vs. 16.9% last year. Despite huge progress, Spain (+77.1%) and Italy (+44.2%) still have very low BEV shares at 8.8% and 6.2% respectively. Other important European BEV markets include Norway (up 50.6% to 172,231), Netherlands (up 18.1% to 156,139), Belgium (up 12.6% to 143,849) and Denmark (up 42% to 126,542).

Renault Clio sales are up 5.8% in 2025.

In the OEM rankings, the VW Group (+5%) enlarges its footprint and registers 3.56 million units, whereas Stellantis drops -3.9% to 1.92 million. The Renault Group (+6.1%) is in great shape at #3 and 1.36 million sales as is the BMW Group (+5.1%) at 0.97 million. Hyundai-Kia (-1.6%) edges down to 1.05 million while the Toyota Group (-6.9%) slips outside the Top 5 with 0.93 million sales. Volkswagen (+6%) tops the brands charts with 1.44 million sales above Toyota (-7.3%) in difficulty. Skoda (+9.5%) overtakes BMW (+3.3%) to take the third spot while Renault (+7.3%) passes Mercedes (-0.8%) to round out the Top 5. Below, MG (+26.4%) is up four spots to #16 and peaked at #12 in December, Cupra is up 33.3%, BYD up 276.2% to #22 and Mini up 14.5%. Tesla is down -26.9%.

Model-wise, the Dacia Sandero (-9.8%) is hit hard but holds onto the European crown for the 2nd year in a row. It ranked #1 only three times though: in January, February and October. France, Italy and Spain account for 63% of its 2025 tally. In 2nd place like in 2024, the Renault Clio (+5.8%) catches up fast with 44% of its volume coming from France. The Clio topped the monthly charts in April, May, June and November. As such, the gap between the Sandero and the Clio was 53,000 units last year but is now just 14,000. The VW T-Roc (+3.8%) completes the podium (#1 in July and August), up two spots on last year and is followed by the Tiguan (+0.8%) up three to #4 and the Golf (-9.8%) down two to #5. The Toyota Yaris Cross (-2.1%) is up to a record 6th place despite skidding year-on-year. The Peugeot 208 (-7.3%) is in difficulty at #7 but still manages to rank #1 in March. Excellent performance by the Peugeot 2008 (+5.9%) up six ranks to return inside the Top 10 at #8. Leader in 2023, the Tesla Model Y (-28%) collapses to #15 but was #1 in September and December. The Skoda Elroq is the #1 newcomer at #38 and was up to #10 in December.

Previous year: Europe 2024: Dacia Sandero signs first ever win

Two years ago: Europe 2023: Tesla Model Y spectacularly takes the lead

Full December and Full Year 2025 Top 13 OEMs, Top 125 brands and Top 977 models vs. Full Year 2024 figures below.