Dutch EV Share Hits a Record 55.2% in October While Tesla Drops to About 340 Cars
Electric cars took a record 55.2% of new car registrations in the Netherlands in October. Tesla, the second-biggest brand in September with 3,165 cars, registered about 340 in October, according to a count of RDW register data, roughly half its total a year earlier.
By the Tesla News Wire staff · Edited by Seamus McKenna · · 2 min read
Fully electric cars took a record 55.2% of the Dutch new-car market in October. Autoblog, reporting RDC data analysed by RAI Vereniging and BOVAG, counts 18,243 EVs among 33,061 registrations. The total market fell 3.5% from October 2025.
The table
Top brands: Kia (3,087), Volkswagen (2,931), Skoda (2,261), Renault (2,171), Toyota (2,076).
Best-selling car: the Skoda Elroq, with 931.
Year to date: 297,051 cars, down 2.3%, with 42.8% electric.
Tesla's quiet month
The official brand list stops at five, so Teslant counted October first registrations in the RDW's open vehicle register. It found 281 Model Ys and 59 Model 3s, about 340 cars in total. The same query gives 3,168 for September and 646 for October 2025. Teslant says this puts Tesla around 26th among brands.
Tesla delivers most of its European cars in the last month of each quarter. Teslant adds that the Model Y still leads the Dutch year-to-date ranking. Chinese and Vietnamese brands kept growing: BYD registered 674 cars, Leapmotor 622, and VinFast 465 VF 6s.
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