More than 30% of passengers registered in Portugal between January and October have exclusively electric motorization, according to ACAP.
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02/11/2026
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Mais 30% of the passengers registered in Portugal between January and October have an exclusively electric motorization, according to ACAP, which adds that in the last month, this segment represented 45% of the new passengers.
According to data released today by Associação Automóvel de Portugal (ACAP), of the 205,507 passenger cars registered in Portugal between January and October this year, 77.5% are powered by battery, 19.1% by gasoline and 3.4% by diesel.
Among the alternative energies, the cars exclusively powered by the battery (BEV) represented the largest slice, with 30.3%, followed by the electric hybrids (25.4%) and the hybrids ‘plug-in’, with 15.1%.
The BEVs grew 50.5% compared to the first 10 months of last year, with the brands being the most sold to Tesla (9,673, up 62.5%), BMW (5,552, +47.8%) and Mercedes-Benz (4,424, +89.1%).
In October alone, these engines had an increase of 61.4%, with 7,452 registrations, corresponding to 44.9% of the market.
The hybrids grew 21.1% in the first 10 months of the year, with 52,192 enrollments and the French Peugeot in the lead (9,443, +12.6%), followed by the Japanese Toyota (8,466, +21.8%) and also French Citroën (3,986, +125.5%).
In the 10th month of the year, the registration of hybrid vehicles retreated 9.3% to 2,761 units, equivalent to 16.6% of the market.
On the other hand, the PLEV had a 9.9% increase from the same period of 2025, with 30,948 enrollments, in a segment dominated by the German Mercedes-Benz (6,631, 7.2% decrease), BMW (4,666, -9.5%) and Volkswagen (2,922, +24,2%).
Only in October, the number of PHEV registrations fell by 19.2%, totaling a market share of 15.8%.