🌐 Global
Year focus
0 new cars registered

 

Peak share , ,
Electrified , BEV + PHEV + HEV
Diesel share , vs peak

Diesel collapsed. Electric arrived.

Every new car's power source, stacked by share each year.

Latest news 62 today
  1. Autocar3h agoI swapped my BMW iX3 for its biggest rival - which would I choose?
  2. Auto Express4h agoBest James Bond cars ever, and 007's worst cars, too
  3. electrive5h agoLegal proceedings should establish whether the BYD Ti7 is a Copy of JLR’s Defender
All stories
#1
,
,
 
,
,
 

    Seasonality

    Monthly share of annual sales.

    Raw
    Data
    , rows · 17y

    Global car sales 2026: China, USA, India, Japan, Germany, UK and Ireland compared by country

    Which country sells the most cars in 2026?

    China is the largest of the seven car markets AutoNergy tracks, with 15,027,000 passenger cars retailed from January to October 2026 (down 22%, CPCA preliminary), followed by the United States at an estimated 12,038,144 new vehicles to September (the sum of Cox's monthly figures, with September from Cox's 27 October release) and Japan at 3,927,177 including kei cars to October. Release note: Car sales by country, January to August 2026.

    Germany registered 2,476,290 new cars from January to October (up 4.9%), the UK 1,892,000 (up 9.8%) and Ireland 130,754 to October (up 5.6%, SIMI, 2 November). India retailed 507,768 in October alone (down 14.2% on a festive base), according to FADA. Electrification varies far more than size: in October 2026 China's new-energy penetration hit a record 67.8% and Germany's battery-electric registrations were 94,086 (37.0% of 254,492), while in October the UK's were 48,858 (32.0% of 152,730), while the United States was at 5.7% in August. Every figure comes from the body that publishes it: CPCA, Cox Automotive, FADA, JADA and Zenkeijikyo, KBA, SMMT and SIMI. Four markets are current to October 2026 (Ireland, Japan, Germany and China, the last on CPCA's preliminary print); the UK and India are on September, until SMMT and FADA publish October, and the United States is on September (Cox). Last checked on 5 November 2026.