EVWire brief: 43,060 EVs were sold in Germany in May 2025, which recorded growth of 44.9% Year-over-Year (YoY), and 18.0% market share in the overall 239,297 cars sold (+1.2% YoY). In other words, every 6th (well, every 5.56th) car sold in Germany in May was fully electric.
Now, comparing with the year 2024 is a bit off since the incentives that were cut in Dec 2023 effectively killed off the market for most of the year, especially the first part. In fact, in all of 2024, per our global sales tracker, EV sales dropped by -27.4% compared to 2023, and reached just a 13.5% EV mix (down from 18.4% in 2023) overall. So we could see some normalization happening here, this time without the environmental subsidies in play.
Same time last year: The EV market share in May this year is very similar but slightly larger at 18% with the 17.6% in May 2024.
So far this year: looking at year-to-date (YTD) numbers Jan-May, Germany has seen 201,563 new EV registrations this year, which is 43.2% more than Jan-May 2024 with 140,713 EV sales.
Per the KBA, Tesla recorded a -36.2% drop in sales compared to May 2024 with 1,210 sales, and is behind by 57.7% so far this year with 7,030 sales, compared to the Jan-May last year.
Germany just launched new EV incentives for business EV fleets where, most likely from the start of July already, EVs registered as company cars can be written off in the same year of purchase to the extent of up to 75% of the purchase price.
Source: Official KBA statistics
DIG DEEPER: While we’re still ramping up our per-country filtering for Germany, and per-automaker or per-country sales tracking that will be monthly, you can revisit our unique 2024 EV sales global overview for more data, or see our latest EV sales reporting on the columns below our sales tracker.
