The single most useful thing you can do with new car data is line the markets up against each other on the same date. Here is the first-half 2026 electric-share picture across every market Autonergy tracks, with the reporting body named for each figure. Read the labels carefully: China's headline is new-energy share (battery plus plug-in hybrid), while the European and US figures are pure battery-electric.
China: 62.8% new-energy share (CPCA)
New-energy vehicles took 62.8% of China's passenger car retail in June 2026, near the all-time record, even as the overall market shrank (CnEVPost, Automotive World). That figure includes plug-in hybrids; pure battery-electric alone is lower, but still comfortably the highest of any market here.
United Kingdom: 25.0% battery-electric (SMMT)
UK battery-electric share reached a record 25.0% year-to-date through June, with 284,579 BEVs registered in the first half, up 26.6% (SMMT, 6 July 2026; JD Power corroboration). June alone hit 30%. Yet 25% still trails the 33% the ZEV mandate demands for the year.
Germany: 24.8% battery-electric (KBA)
Germany's first-half battery-electric share was 24.8%, with BEV registrations up roughly 48% year-on-year, and June posted the highest monthly BEV volume since August 2023 at 84,057 units (KBA, electrive.net). Germany is now the European volume engine for electric.
Ireland: 24% battery-electric (SIMI)
Ireland registered 20,164 electric cars in the first half for a 23.67% share, up 48% year-on-year (SIMI, 1 July 2026; DealFinder corroboration). A small market moving at the same pace as its much larger European neighbours.
European Union: 20% battery-electric (ACEA)
Across the EU as a whole, battery-electric cars took 20% of the market year-to-date, up from 15.3% a year earlier, with petrol down to 22.4% and diesel to 7.6% (ACEA). The EU average sits below the UK, German and Irish leaders because slower southern and eastern markets pull it down.
United States: under 6% (Cox Automotive)
US electric share held near 6%, at 5.8% in Q1 and 5.4% in Q2, after the federal tax credit ended (Cox Automotive, The Drive). The only market here where electric volume is falling outright.
Japan: around 3% (JADA)
Japan's pure battery-electric share stayed at roughly 3% through a first half of 2.39 million total sales, the lowest of the panel (Times of Saudia, Focus2move). Treat the 3% as approximate; Japan's hybrid-heavy market keeps battery-electric marginal.
The three-speed transition
The pattern is clean. China runs alone at the top. A tight European cluster, the UK, Germany and Ireland, sits in the mid-20s and is converging. And the United States and Japan sit at the bottom for opposite reasons: America because it withdrew its incentive, Japan because it never leaned on battery-electric in the first place. Open the live Global dashboard to compare all of these side by side, with the feeds from SIMI, SMMT, KBA, ACEA, CPCA, Cox and JADA.