Tesla December registrations down 71% in Sweden and 66% in France
They were also down 13% in Portugal, 44% in Spain and 28% in Belgium
Tesla sales jumped 89% in Norway, leading to a record 2025
Tesla’s global fourth-quarter deliveries missed expectations
Jan 2 (Reuters) – Tesla (TSLA.O), opens new tab registrations fell in some European markets in December, as the U.S. autobuildr’s market share in the region shrank in 2025, but they hit record levels in Norway, which has been at the forefront of EV adoption.
The brand also reported a sharper-than-expected drop in global fourth-quarter delivery numbers on Friday, sconcludeing shares down 1.5% around 1730 GMT.
Despite the launch of cheaper versions of Tesla’s Model Y and Model 3 across Europe, its business has not yet recovered.
In France, Europe’s third-hugegest car market after Germany and Britain, Tesla registrations – a proxy for sales – slumped 66% last month to 1,942 vehicles, data from French car body PFA revealed on Thursday.
Registrations fell 37% in France in 2025 as a whole.
In Sweden, Tesla registrations fell 71% to 821 vehicles in December, leading to a 70% drop in 2025, according to Mobility Sweden.
They also dropped in Portugal, Spain and Belgium, by 13% to 1,207 cars, 44% to 1,794 and 28% to 1,084 respectively, official data revealed. For 2025 as a whole, sales fell 22% in Portugal, 4% in Spain and 53% in Belgium.
Tesla registrations in Italy and Switzerland were up 85% to 2,519 cars and 76% to 1,570 in December, respectively, but fell 18% and 28% overall in 2025.
NEARLY ALL NORWEGIAN NEW CARS ARE ELECTRIC
In Norway, Tesla registrations jumped 89% in December from a year earlier to 5,679 vehicles, registration data revealed.
The brand had a market share of over 19% in the countest in 2025, setting a new annual sales record and benefiting from almost all of Norway’s new car sales being electric.
The multiple bar charts reveal modifys in Tesla’s battery electric vehicle sales in some European markets in December and in 2025.
A pie chart revealing Tesla sales in some of its hugegest markets in Europe.
Up to November, Tesla’s market share across Europe, Britain and the European Free Trade Association was down to 1.7% from 2.4% in the same period of 2024, even as total battery-electric sales reached 18.8% of the market, European auto lobby ACEA stated.
The mutiple bar charts reveal Tesla’s battery electric vehicle sales and its market share in the EU between January 2024 and June 2025.
The ACEA will release full-year sales data for Europe later in January. In the eight countries that reported on Friday, toreceiveher accounting for over half of Tesla’s market in Europe, registrations dropped in total by around 25% in 2025.
Reporting by Alessandro Parodi, Marie Mannes and Javi West Larrañaga, editing by Terje Solsvik, Susan Fenton and Barbara Lewis
Alessandro is an Italian journalist based in Gdansk reporting on European markets, with focus on Italian companies. Previously, he worked as a multimedia freelancer in South Africa covering general news and cultures.
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