Electric car registrations Switzerland — as of August 2026
Passenger cars with a charging port · Jan–Aug 2026 · data as of 2026-08-31
All figures from the original auto-schweiz Excel files, analysed by us. The comparison is Jan–Aug 2026 against the same period of 2025 — not against the previous month, which removes seasonality and late reporting. What counts is anything with a charging port: BEV, plug-in hybrids and range extenders.
Source: auto-schweiz, own analysis of the original Excel files · as of 2026-08-31
The ten most registered brands
| Rank | Brand | 2026 | 2025 | Δ | Share | Models |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BMW | 5’302 | 5’271 | +1 % | 9,47 % | 16 |
| 2 | Škoda | 4’889 | 3’512 | +39 % | 8,73 % | 5 |
| 3 | Volvo | 4’387 | 3’996 | +10 % | 7,84 % | 15 |
| 4 | Mercedes-Benz | 4’008 | 2’977 | +35 % | 7,16 % | 31 |
| 5 | Audi | 3’935 | 3’164 | +24 % | 7,03 % | 14 |
| 6 | BYD | 3’808 | 297 | +1182 % | 6,80 % | 11 |
| 7 | Volkswagen | 3’758 | 3’888 | -3 % | 6,71 % | 19 |
| 8 | Tesla | 3’175 | 3’395 | -6 % | 5,67 % | 4 |
| 9 | Renault | 2’252 | 2’096 | +7 % | 4,02 % | 10 |
| 10 | Kia | 1’880 | 1’426 | +32 % | 3,36 % | 14 |
The twenty most registered models
| Rank | Model | Powertrain | 2026 | 2025 | Δ | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tesla Model Y | fully electric | 2’365 | 2’661 | -11 % | 4,22 % |
| 2 | Škoda Elroq | fully electric | 2’227 | 1’498 | +49 % | 3,98 % |
| 3 | Škoda Enyaq | fully electric | 2’216 | 1’543 | +44 % | 3,96 % |
| 4 | Volvo EX30 | fully electric | 1’418 | 960 | +48 % | 2,53 % |
| 5 | BYD Seal U DM-i | plug-in hybrid, petrol | 1’331 | 113 | +1078 % | 2,38 % |
| 6 | Volvo XC60 | plug-in hybrid, petrol | 1’292 | 1’494 | -14 % | 2,31 % |
| 7 | Audi Q4 | fully electric | 1’014 | 1’187 | -15 % | 1,81 % |
| 8 | BMW iX1 | fully electric | 987 | 1’168 | -15 % | 1,76 % |
| 9 | BMW iX3 | fully electric | 986 | 0 | new | 1,76 % |
| 10 | Volkswagen ID.3 | fully electric | 889 | 978 | -9 % | 1,59 % |
| 11 | Renault R5 | fully electric | 809 | 1’094 | -26 % | 1,45 % |
| 12 | Mercedes-Benz GLC-Klasse | plug-in hybrid, petrol | 769 | 861 | -11 % | 1,37 % |
| 13 | BMW X1 | plug-in hybrid, petrol | 707 | 744 | -5 % | 1,26 % |
| 14 | Tesla Model 3 | fully electric | 672 | 653 | +3 % | 1,20 % |
| 15 | BMW X3 | plug-in hybrid, petrol | 654 | 565 | +16 % | 1,17 % |
| 16 | Mercedes-Benz CLA-Klasse | fully electric | 648 | 3 | +21500 % | 1,16 % |
| 17 | BYD Sealion 7 | fully electric | 622 | 95 | +555 % | 1,11 % |
| 18 | Mercedes-Benz GLC-Klasse | fully electric | 608 | 0 | new | 1,09 % |
| 19 | Audi Q5 | plug-in hybrid, petrol | 598 | 18 | +3222 % | 1,07 % |
| 20 | Volvo XC90 | plug-in hybrid, petrol | 586 | 537 | +9 % | 1,05 % |
Biggest gains
- Mercedes-Benz CLA-Klasse +21500 % 3 → 648
- Zeekr 7X +9383 % 6 → 569
- BYD Atto 2 +7900 % 2 → 160
- Xpeng G6 +4275 % 4 → 175
- Peugeot 5008 +3380 % 5 → 174
- Audi Q5 +3222 % 18 → 598
Biggest losses
- Mercedes-Benz EQE -72 % 220 → 61
- Peugeot 308 -69 % 175 → 55
- Toyota Proace -64 % 157 → 56
- Kia EV6 -62 % 221 → 85
- BMW iX2 -58 % 281 → 117
- Kia Sportage -56 % 353 → 156
Only models with at least 50 registrations in the current period and a previous-year figure — on smaller numbers, percentages are noise.
By month
| Month | 2026 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Jan | 4’599 | 4’249 |
| Feb | 4’917 | 4’845 |
| Mar | 8’203 | 6’480 |
| Apr | 6’910 | 5’432 |
| May | 7’390 | 6’446 |
| Jun | 9’851 | 7’204 |
| Jul | 7’416 | 6’448 |
| Aug | 6’700 | 5’210 |
| Total | 55’986 | 46’314 |
The data for reuse
All models of this period as a file, with brand, model, powertrain, registrations of the current and previous-year period as well as the monthly figures. Citation note inside the file.
Free to use, please cite the source: wattradar.ch, own analysis of the auto-schweiz registration statistics, as of 2026-08-31. The analysis is by wattradar, the underlying statistics by auto-schweiz.
How we calculate
The comparison runs period against the same period of the previous year. Models without previous-year registrations are marked «new» rather than with a misleading percentage. A negative monthly figure is a correcting entry: auto-schweiz revises previously reported registrations after the fact, and the statistics do not say why — a cancellation and a rebooking onto a different model name look identical in them. The annual figure is the corrected one. What these figures do not say: they measure how widespread a model is, not how good it is.
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