The electric vehicle market in Austria is growing by 80 percent

Not only in Germany but also in neighboring Austria, new registrations of electric cars are currently rising sharply. 9,723 electric vehicles were newly registered in Austria in September, representing an increase of 80.6 percent compared to the previous month. Accordingly, the market share has also risen significantly.

In Austria specifically, in September 2026, about one out of every three newly registered passenger cars was an electric vehicle: Statistik Austria estimated the market share of fully electric vehicles at 33.6 percent across all propulsion types. This puts electric cars just behind gasoline hybrids, whose market share was 34.2 percent—this figure includes plug-in hybrids, which the statistics agency did not break down further. In contrast, conventional gasoline cars accounted for only 23.2 percent of the market share, diesel-powered vehicles for 6.5 percent, and diesel hybrids for 2.5 percent.

The comparison to the same period last year is even more impressive, showing tremendous growth momentum: The 9,723 new electric cars registered in September 2026 represented an increase of 80.6 percent compared to September 2025. Solid growth was also seen in gasoline hybrids (+11.2 percent including PHEVs), while sales of gasoline cars dropped (-12.1 percent), diesel cars fell by -28.2 percent, and diesel hybrids declined by -38.2 percent.

"Currently, the new car market for electric vehicles is growing fastest. In September 2026, the registration of new electric cars, with an increase of over 80 percent compared to the previous year, drove a significant rise in overall new car registrations. Registrations of hybrid vehicles also continued to increase. Since the beginning of the year, new car registrations have risen by 12.1 percent in total," said Manuela Lenk, Director General for Statistical Analysis at Statistik Austria.

Austria with 63,172 new electric cars since the start of the year

In the current year, 63,172 electric cars were newly registered in Austria between January and September. This represents a 36.9 percent increase compared to the first three quarters of 2025, accounting for a 26.2 percent market share. In other words: Since the beginning of the year, more than one in four new cars sold in Austria are fully electric.

Unfortunately, Statistik Austria does not differentiate between the individual models. However, it identifies at least the top 5 manufacturers with the highest number of new electric vehicle registrations. From January to September, these are BMW (10.1 percent market share in BEVs), Skoda (9.8 percent), Tesla (9.4 percent), BYD (9.1 percent), and VW (8.2 percent). Additionally, Statistik Austria cites the Chinese manufacturer BYD as having the strongest growth rate across all vehicle types, with +68.2 percent in new registrations this year. It should be noted, however, that BYD sells not only fully electric cars but also plug-in hybrids.

The Austrian electric vehicle market currently shows a similar growth trajectory to that of the German market: New BEV registrations rose by about 95 percent in September compared to the previous year, reaching exactly 88,599 new electric vehicles. Meanwhile, its market share across all vehicle types increased to 34.5 percent — a new record high.