In October, fully electric cars took 37 percent of the new-car market: 94,086 of them, more than petrol and diesel cars combined for the second month in a row. Less than three years after the old subsidy was scrapped overnight and sales collapsed, the birthplace of the automobile is buying electric faster than its own car industry predicted!
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Germany’s best-selling electric car in October was Tesla’s Model Y as it outsold the Volkswagen Golf, Germany’s best-selling car every year since 1981.
The catch is Tesla’s rhythm. Its German registrations swing with the delivery quarter, so the Model Y went from 299 in July to 8,038 in September, and the Tesla brand as a whole registered just 2,932 cars in October.
Over the full year sits second, outsold by Czech automobile manufacturer Skoda’s Elroq that registered more than 3,000 cars in every month of 2026 through September and leads the year to date with 30,845, ahead of the Model Y.
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The top-10 brands in Germany according to the latest registration come exclusively from domestic brands: Volkswagen, Mercedes, and BMW.
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Idk. It’s exaggerated but I generally agree with the sentiment. Let me try to fix it:
Third party chargers are partly enshittyfied in Germany, with high prices, a few dozen different providers, every other one coercing you to use their shitty app, often with slow charging and unreliable service.
That sounds much better to me. The other version just sounded like fear-mongering by the diesel lobby.