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  • It looks like Europe no longer hates Elon. That didn't last long.
    by dgudkov
  • We own a Model Y and now subscribe to FSD. The car is basically done and I sort of see why Tesla isn’t bothering
    by sivanmz
  • What are their sources? How are they defining Europe?
    by JumpCrisscross
  • I'm not entirely sure why you're getting downvoted. I wasn't able to find a source for the data but it is probably new vehicle registrations. Europe here seems to include Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Switzerland.
    by Sayrus
  • Vehicle registrations.
    by cptskippy
  • They don't seem to link their sources (that's bad) but the general numbers seem to match The European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA) report for H1 2026 [0]. They include EU + EFTA + UK.

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      0: https://www.acea.auto/pc-registrations/new-car-registrations-5-7-in-h1-2026-battery-electric-20-7-market-share/
    by tecleandor
  • Well one interesting thing is that if you want to buy a Toyota Yaris right now in Europe (specifically in Greece) the only options offered are hybrid. One with 116 hp and one with 136 hp. No petrol, no diesel. And only automatic transmission (a no no for me but that another discussion).

    Now considering that Yaris is one of the most popular cars (if not the most popular), the increase in sales is not surprising

    by spapas82
  • They Toyota hybrids are still gasoline, what's the objection to the eCVT? So long as we're still using combustion engines it seems like the best design anyone's come up with.
    by hedgehog
  • yaris would be the most popular only if you combined yaris cross and yaris together and those are quite different cars, otherwise yaris cross is on 6th place in Europe and ordinary Yaris on 10th, if you are gonna merge them then you should also merge first two places Dacia Sandero and Renault Clio since they share many parts as well

    https://www.best-selling-cars.com/europe/2025-full-year-euro...

    here in Czechia Toyota is fairly popular, but I wouldn't say Yaris is the best selling car model, the top 10 best selling models is absolutely dominated by Skoda, only 3 spots in top 10 made other brands - 6th place Hyundai i30, 9th Toyota Corolla and 10th Hyundai Tucson

    https://www.cebia.cz/novinky/trh-s-automobily/top-30-nejprod...

    btw. my mother has the latest Yaris Cross as well and it's horrible car for the money, the rear seats are unusable for anyone taller with very little space, trunk is very small, usable really only for 2 people, for the money it cost I would much rather bought Hyundai i30 Combi or Dacia Jogger

    by Markoff
  • Why would anyone buy a Tesla in 2026?
    by a_paddy
  • As a data point - in my market Tesla is the only manufacturer that makes an EV sedan, and has made them long enough for there to be used ones at reasonable prices (not a lot of people have Taycan money). Most of EVs, especially used ones, are tall and heavy SUVs that put driving experience as the absolutely last priority.

    Did I actually buy a Tesla? No. But this has entered as part of my "which EV" conundrum.

    by pepperoni_pizza
  • Self driving maybe? I’m happy to be corrected but I think most brands don’t offer the full self driving package Tesla offers.
    by afavour
  • Price? They are quite cheap these days relative to comparable cars from other manufacturers.
    by wasfgwp
  • Best charging experience and best software experience.

    Note: I do not want this to be true. Other companies please copy what Tesla has done with both of these. You’ve had years to do this and failed.

    by thebruce87m
  • I wish the article was written in a better way. It throws put many percentages in different contexts. 50-26-37-41- …

    Not saying any particular number is wrong, just wishing it was a clearer way of writing.

    by DennisL123
  • They're making the typical journalism mistake of trying to use prose for what would be better expressed in a chart. This is a pretty common issue with journalists who can write but don't know how to create useful and informative charts.

    I looked at other posts by this author and they're all sales by month charts, which are totally devoid of context as they lack historic trend data. So you have to read words to find that out, and its a slog.

    I have firsthand experience starting a news company and dealing with this...

    by npunt
  • While I'm waiting for my Kia EV3 to arrive, I'm desparately trying to figure out which wallbox I need to buy to make use of V2H/V2G. Everything claims to be "ready", but I still don't know whether V2H/V2L will be DC or AC. Which protocol do my smart meters have to provide? What about the PV-inverter? How many apps will I need? How many cloud accounts? What about island-operation? Will I be able to use Home-Assistant for everything? What about feeding in the flexible pricing of my power provider? Another App/API? Which node in this hairball will have which role? Will the car decide when to charge? Or the App? Or the Wallbox? Or its App?

    I'm drowning in theoretical options and I'm left with the feeling that everything seems to be possible in theory, but I won't find a solution that works in practice. There are just too many protocols and regulations at play.

    Would have loved to wait another year until the dust around these topics have settled a bit, but the old car broke too early :( (sorry for the rant)

    by kawogi
  • The industry has managed a transition. Some European brands have partnered with chinese suppliers while integrating some research in-house. Some cars have a lot of features, cute look, and good price.
    by agumonkey
  • By features you mean surveillance and spyware bundled with locked down, closed source software aimed at restricting you as much as possible whilst extracting every last cent out of you.

    Effectively no modern car "looks cute" or good. They are all stupid SUVs for soccer moms brainwashed by car marketing.

    by HDBaseT
  • I need to replace a 20 yr old Prius. I’d be a natural Tesla customer if not for Elon. All the BEV cars I like have been cancelled by their manufacturers. I want value and I keep my cars a long time. What should have been a slam dunk purchase has become disappointment. I’ll be buying another hybrid.
    by dsunds
  • I'm trading in my 2018 Tesla Model 3 soon to buy a Rivian R2. It seems like the only real Tesla competitor actually coming to market.
    by Server6
  • BEV - battery electric vehicle

    (P)HEV - (plugin) hybrid electric vehicle

    ICEV - internal combustion engine vehicle

    by throawayonthe
  • how many none battery electric vehicles are out there that we could confuse EV with that the B is required in that name....
    by xela79
  • Nearly 50% of vehicles sold in Australia in the last quarter were EVs or plug-in hybrids: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-02/electric-vehicle-ev-s...
    by bashtoni
  • Sweet free free sunshine down here.
    by aetherspawn
  • A record for EV sales in Norway was set in 2025: 95.9 percent of all new passenger cars sold were fully electric, up from 88.9 percent in 2024.
    by emil-lp
  • The US auto industry under its pro-oil policy incentives is in for a disastrous long-term outlook in exchange for short-term prosperity.

    At best, it’ll be a situation where the US market is segregated from the rest of the world: US auto consumers will be buying inferior vehicles from the rest of world that are more expensive to buy and own, since they will only be viable in the US market and will only be built in the US, Canada, and Mexico.

    At worst, the US is setting itself for horrendous energy policy issues moving forward. Sure, the US produces a lot of gas and oil and will for a long time, but any sort of price shock will be leaving the US and its car-dependent economy destabilized while Europe and Asia power forward with an ever-decreasing dependence on oil and gas. The US’ endless energy wars will continue to serve as incredibly expensive endeavors that other countries don’t even need to engage in.

    Just look at the number of nuclear power plant projects in progress in China. Comparatively few people in China depend on oil to get to work and travel long distances, and the amount that do is plummeting.

    by Grombobulous
  • Nothing you wrote there makes sense, there is just no chain of causality in it.
    by cineticdaffodil
  • In what way are US vehicles inferior? I've been told from many in the country that Americans make the hardiest, most rugged vehicles in the world, and everybody is clambering to get them.
    by Freedom2
  • US automakers are already unable to compete globally even within the ever shrinking ICE share.

    Protectionism makes industries weak and uncompetitive, ultimately hurting the economy of the nation doing the protectionism. The proper strategy to become competitive is to provide a small amount of protectionism so that the industry does not die, but to ruthlessly cull underperforming companies so that only the strongest survive. The continual bailouts of companies, keeping old and incompetent executives at the helm, has destroyed the US car industry.

    Capitalism requires killing the underperforming companies. Until we let that happen, or at a minimum cull leadership and boards, nothing will get better. The rot is at the top.

    by epistasis