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Estonia File

First registrations in Estonia straight from Transpordiamet, the Transport Administration that keeps the traffic register — one workbook a month with every new vehicle, its EU category and its EU hybrid type, so BEV, PHEV and HEV are counted, not estimated. New cars (Whole), private and company buyers, used imports, vans, lorries and buses, about three weeks before ACEA publishes the month.

2026-10
Latest period held
7.9%
TTM BEV share (Whole)
7
Variants

Who sells the cars

Whole · last 12 months (2025-11 → 2026-10) · 18,776 new registrations in total. Units are registrations; brand and model as the register writes them in the list of new vehicles (Mark, Mudel), upper-cased; "VOLKSWAGEN, VW" is shown as VOLKSWAGEN. The model is the register's model name — body and trim variants of one model stay separate where the register names them separately (BZ4X and BZ4X TOURING). the same classes as the Whole CSV — BEV, PHEV (OVC-HEV), HEV (NOVC-HEV), PETROL and DIESEL — counted per vehicle from the same sheet, so the tables add up to the chart's monthly figures exactly.

Top brands — % of each powertrain; header: the powertrain's % of all registrationsregistrations; header: the powertrain's total

#BEV7.9%1,480PHEV8.9%1,679HEV55.7%10,454PETROL16.6%3,118DIESEL10.9%2,045
1Toyota17.0%251Škoda20.5%345Toyota29.8%3,121Škoda26.2%818Škoda33.1%676
2Škoda8.6%128Volkswagen19.5%327Renault12.6%1,313KIA18.8%585Volkswagen22.0%450
3BYD7.9%117BYD7.3%123Škoda8.9%930Dacia10.6%331Audi6.8%138
4BMW6.0%89BMW6.7%112Volkswagen6.9%722Renault8.0%250Mercedes-Benz5.9%121
5Subaru5.9%88Volvo4.5%76Peugeot6.2%652Hyundai6.7%208Peugeot5.4%111
6KIA5.5%81Audi4.3%72Dacia5.7%600Cupra4.7%147Citroen4.1%84
7Renault4.6%68Lynk&co4.3%72BMW4.2%435Volkswagen4.7%147Opel3.7%76
8MG3.9%58Lexus4.0%68Mercedes-Benz2.6%272Subaru4.2%131Toyota3.6%73
9Porsche3.9%58Lamborghini3.0%51Honda2.5%263BMW3.2%100Ford3.2%65
10Hyundai3.6%54Mercedes-Benz2.9%49Audi2.3%240Audi2.9%92KIA2.1%42
rest33.0%488rest22.9%384rest18.2%1,906rest9.9%309rest10.2%209

Top designations — % of each powertrain; header: the powertrain's % of all registrationsregistrations; header: the powertrain's total

#BEV7.9%1,480PHEV8.9%1,679HEV55.7%10,454PETROL16.6%3,118DIESEL10.9%2,045
1BZ4XToyota7.5%111KodiaqŠkoda18.8%315CorollaToyota8.5%886SportageKIA8.9%277OctaviaŠkoda15.8%323
2BZ4X TouringToyota6.3%94TayronVolkswagen12.2%204Yaris CrossToyota7.2%748KamiqŠkoda7.5%234KodiaqŠkoda13.3%272
3Sealion 7BYD4.0%60Seal U DM-IBYD6.6%110OctaviaŠkoda6.4%672ClioRenault7.1%223TayronVolkswagen8.3%170
4E-OutbackSubaru3.6%54TiguanVolkswagen5.1%86RAV4Toyota5.2%544SanderoDacia5.4%169Q3 SportbackAudi5.8%119
5Model YTesla3.4%508Lynk&co3.6%60SymbiozRenault4.1%427FabiaŠkoda5.0%157TouaregVolkswagen3.9%80
6C-HRToyota2.8%41X3 30E XdriveBMW2.7%46C-HRToyota3.5%364XceedKIA4.7%146V-KlasseMercedes-Benz3.5%71
7S5 EVMG2.5%37X5 XDRIVE50EBMW2.5%42AustralRenault3.3%342OutbackSubaru4.2%131TiguanVolkswagen3.3%68
8Scenic E-Tech ElectricRenault2.5%37RX450H+Lexus2.4%41YarisToyota3.2%334DusterDacia3.9%122ProaceToyota2.4%50
92Lynk&co2.1%31XC90Volvo2.4%41DusterDacia3.2%331TucsonHyundai3.7%115TravellerPeugeot2.3%47
106EMazda1.8%27SportageKIA2.2%37Captur E-Tech HybridRenault2.7%282ScalaŠkoda3.4%107CrafterVolkswagen2.3%47
11EV3KIA1.7%25XC60Volvo2.1%35TiguanVolkswagen2.4%246KodiaqŠkoda3.2%100BerlingoCitroen2.1%44
12IONIQ5Hyundai1.6%24UrusLamborghini1.9%325008Peugeot2.3%243KaroqŠkoda2.7%83SuperbŠkoda2.1%44
13IX3 50 XdriveBMW1.6%23SuperbŠkoda1.8%30BigsterDacia2.3%238I 20Hyundai2.3%73Tourneo CustomFord2.1%42
14CLA 250+Mercedes-Benz1.4%21NX450H+Lexus1.6%27T-ROCVolkswagen2.2%226OctaviaŠkoda2.2%69SorentoKIA2.1%42
15Enyaq 85Škoda1.4%20CX-60Mazda1.6%26KodiaqŠkoda1.8%186A5 LimousineAudi2.0%62308Peugeot2.0%40
rest55.7%825rest32.6%547rest41.9%4,385rest33.7%1,050rest28.7%586

HEV = full hybrid (no plug; counted as ICE in the curves).

Raw source

Go and check the numbers yourself:

Transpordiamet — monthly first-registration statistics (Infoleht), from the traffic register ↗

How the data flows

Origin
Estonian traffic register (liiklusregister), kept by Transpordiamet (Estonian Transport Administration)
Download

The fetcher reads Transpordiamet's statistics page, finds the month's "Infoleht" workbook by its link text and downloads it (0.5–1.5 MB, XLS until 2025-11, XLSX since). A run whose target month is already in every CSV makes no request at all. The workbook is never restated, so each month is read once.

Pick the vehicles

The "Uued sõidukid" sheet lists every new vehicle of the month, grouped into rows of identical vehicles with a count. Its EU category decides the variant; the owner type splits new cars into Private and Industry. Used imports are not in this sheet — they are all first registrations of passenger cars minus the new ones, from the "Kytus_esm" sheet.

EU vehicle category?
  • M1 or M1G (passenger car)
    New, or first registered abroad before?
    • new — in the list of new vehicles
      Owner type?
      • FÜÜSILINE — a private personWhole+Private
      • JURIIDILINE, RIIGI, VÄLIS, ASUTAMISEL — legal person, state, foreign, company being foundedWhole+Industry
    • used import — first registrations minus new, by engine typeUsed
  • N1 or N1G (van)Vans
  • N2, N3 (incl. G) (lorry, tractor unit)HDV
  • M2, M3 (incl. G) (bus, coach)Buses
  • anything else — motorcycles, mopeds, trailers, tractors, machinesin no variant
Powertrain

New vehicles carry the engine type (Mootori tüüp) and, from 2021, the EU hybrid type (Hübriidi tüüp, certificate of conformity field 23.1). The hybrid type decides first; the engine type decides the rest. Used imports have the engine type only.

EU hybrid type, then engine type?
  • OVC-FCHV / NOVC-FCHV or engine VESINIK (fuel cell, hydrogen)OTHERS
  • OVC-HEV (externally chargeable)PHEV
    new vehicles only; a used import's hybrid is one combined HEV
  • NOVC-HEV (full or mild hybrid)HEV
  • engine ELEKTERBEV
  • engine BENSIIN_HYBRIID / DIISEL_HYBRIID without a hybrid typeHEV
    a few new cars a year; every used hybrid
  • engine BENSIIN, BENSIIN_KATALYSAATOR (incl. LPG / CNG bi-fuel kits)PETROL
  • engine DIISELDIESEL
  • anything else — dedicated CNG or gas engineOTHERS
Checks before writing

The workbook checks itself. New passenger cars counted from "Uued sõidukid" must equal the headline table's "sh uued" (of which new) passenger cars, and so must the "Kytus_esm" sheet's; all first registrations of passenger cars must equal its "Kokku"; new vans + lorries and new buses must equal their headline columns. A difference above 0.5% (and 3 vehicles) stops the run. Unknown engine, hybrid or owner values may not exceed 2% of a month, and a month below a quarter of the usual volume is not written. 69 of 69 months 2021-01 … 2026-09 pass; 68 match exactly, one (2024-07) by one car.

Render

Each new or changed month re-renders the country. Shares are read from the CSV as column ÷ TOTAL and grouped into three curves. A generalized Weibull S-curve is fitted to the BEV and the ICE share, and the charts, the fitted parameters, the twelve-month totals and the uncertainty bands are rewritten.

Which curve does a CSV column count towards?
  • BEVBEV
  • PHEV or EREV (plug-in hybrids, range extenders)
    Does the source split plug-ins from other hybrids?
    • yesPHEV
    • no — one combined hybrid figure (parked in HEV)ICE
      the PHEV curve is left out, never drawn at zero
  • HEV or MHEV (full and mild hybrids — no plug)ICE
  • petrol, diesel, gas, flex-fuel, othersICE

Definitions & scope

AcquisitionFile — downloaded as a data file (XLSX / Parquet / ODS / zip)
Vehicle scopeVehicles first registered in Estonia in the month — new ones from the register's list of new vehicles, used imports as the difference between all first registrations and the new ones. Vehicles deregistered since are still counted in the month they were registered.
HEV (full hybrids)PHEV and HEV come from the register's EU hybrid type of each new vehicle (certificate of conformity field 23.1) — OVC-HEV (externally chargeable) is PHEV, NOVC-HEV (not externally chargeable — full and mild hybrids) is HEV, as at ACEA. Fuel-cell vehicles (OVC/NOVC-FCHV) are OTHERS. A handful of hybrids a year have no hybrid type recorded; they are counted as HEV. Used imports carry engine types only, so their hybrids stay one combined number in HEV (no PHEV column; the chart draws no PHEV curve) — the Lithuania / Türkiye convention.
BackfillWhole is ACEA to 2020-12 (quarterly) and Transpordiamet from 2021-01 — the first workbook with the EU hybrid type. Private, Industry, Used, Vans, HDV and Buses from 2021-01; the quarterly ACEA rows of Vans/HDV/Buses are kept in data/Estonia_legacy.csv.
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Variants

Each variant is its own series with its own CSV. Not every variant is charted in the gallery — the CSV is the authoritative record either way.

VariantWhat it countsHeldRaw data
WholeNew passenger cars — EU M1 incl. off-road M1G, from the register's list of new vehicles. Transpordiamet from 2021-01, ACEA before (quarterly until 2021).2018-01 – 2026-10
106 rows
data/Estonia.csv
PrivateNew passenger cars registered to a private person (owner type FÜÜSILINE). From 2021-01. Private + Industry = Whole.2021-01 – 2026-09
69 rows
data/Estonia_Private.csv
IndustryNew passenger cars registered to anyone else — legal persons (incl. leasing and rental), the state, foreign owners, companies being founded. From 2021-01.2021-01 – 2026-09
69 rows
data/Estonia_Industry.csv
UsedUsed passenger cars imported into Estonia (M1 incl. M1G), dated by the month of their first Estonian registration — all first registrations minus the new ones. From 2021-01. One combined hybrid number (in HEV, no PHEV column).2021-01 – 2026-10
70 rows
data/Estonia_Used.csv
VansNew light commercial vehicles — EU N1 incl. N1G. From 2021-01 (quarterly ACEA before, kept in data/Estonia_legacy.csv).2021-01 – 2026-10
70 rows
data/Estonia_Vans.csv
HDVNew lorries and tractor units — EU N2 + N3 incl. G. From 2021-01 (quarterly ACEA before, kept in data/Estonia_legacy.csv).2021-01 – 2026-10
70 rows
data/Estonia_HDV.csv
BusesNew buses and coaches — EU M2 + M3 incl. G. From 2021-01 (quarterly ACEA before, kept in data/Estonia_legacy.csv).2021-01 – 2026-10
70 rows
data/Estonia_Buses.csv

History we hold

Every bar is the span actually present in our stored CSV — breaks in a bar are real gaps in the series, not rendering. Cadence is shown on the right.

2018201920202021202220232024202520262027WholeWhole: 2018-01 → 2026-10monthlyPrivatePrivate: 2021-01 → 2026-09monthlyIndustryIndustry: 2021-01 → 2026-09monthlyUsedUsed: 2021-01 → 2026-10monthlyVansVans: 2021-01 → 2026-10monthlyHDVHDV: 2021-01 → 2026-10monthlyBusesBuses: 2021-01 → 2026-10monthly

Whole 2018-01–2026-10 (106 rows), Private 2021-01–2026-09 (69 rows), Industry 2021-01–2026-09 (69 rows), Used 2021-01–2026-10 (70 rows), Vans 2021-01–2026-10 (70 rows), HDV 2021-01–2026-10 (70 rows), Buses 2021-01–2026-10 (70 rows). Some rows additionally carry a time_interval of quarterly; the cadence shown is the spacing the periods actually have.

Which fuel columns this source fills

A blank column almost never means "no such cars" — it means this source does not split them out, and those vehicles are counted inside another column. Check the caveats for where they land.

BEVPHEVHEVPETROLDIESELOTHERS
Wholereportedreportedreportedreportedreportedreported
Privatereportedreportedreportedreportedreportedreported
Industryreportedreportedreportedreportedreportedreported
Usedreportednot reportedreportedreportedreportedreported
Vansreportedreportedreportedreportedreportedreported
HDVreportedalways zeroalways zeroreportedreportedreported
Busesreportedalways zeroalways zeroreportedreportedreported

reported   column exists but is zero in every row   not reported by this source. Hover a cell for the row count.

Caveats