EVwire brief: Plug-in hybrids made up just 0.1% of new passenger cars registered in Denmark in October, while fully electric cars took 88.2%, according to Statistics Denmark figures published on November 13.
That works out to 16,673 battery-electric cars out of 18,901 new registrations, up from 70.4% in October 2025, and only 26 plug-in hybrids. October's BEV share is the second-highest on record, just behind September's 88.6% (17,777 of 20,063).
EVwire founder Jaan Juurikas charted Denmark's plug-in hybrid detour on LinkedIn, using Statistics Denmark data through September:
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Here's what else Statistics Denmark's monthly data shows:
Plug-in hybrids peaked at 30.9% of new cars in December 2021 (5,506 of 17,816), outselling fully electric cars that month (4,758).
Across all of 2021, plug-in hybrids took 21.7% of Denmark's new-car market against 13.3% for BEVs. June 2022 was the last month plug-in hybrids outsold BEVs.
Fully electric cars first passed 50% of new registrations in December 2023. In January 2015, they were 0.4%.
From January to October 2026, BEVs took 82.0% of new cars (140,656 of 171,453), up from 66.1% over the same period in 2025.
Petrol and diesel cars, which in Denmark's official figures also include regular (non-plug-in) hybrids, made up 11.6% of October registrations (2,202 cars).
Plug-in hybrids went from 30.9% of Denmark's new cars in December 2021 to just 0.1% in October 2026.
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Denmark's private buyers are even further along. Households registered 10,130 new cars in October, and 9,959 of them (98.3%) were fully electric, while companies came in at 76.5% (6,714 of 8,771). Back in July, Mobility Denmark figures already showed 97% of private buyers going electric.
In his post, Jaan highlights that he expects the same pattern to play out in nearly every market that has had plug-in hybrids in the mix. Plug-in hybrids still hold a much bigger slice in some nearby markets. In October, for example, plug-in hybrids took 21% of new cars in Sweden, where the official BEV share was 49%, and 9.9% in Finland, where BEVs reached 60.1%. In Germany, plug-in hybrids were 11.2% against a 37.0% BEV share, based on KBA's provisional figures.
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