Monthly report · August 2025
More than 1 in 5 new cars in Thailand was electric in August 2025
Fully electric cars made up 22.8% of new passenger cars registered in Thailand in August 2025 (9,431 of 41,325), with EV registrations down 5.0% on July.
22.8%
of new passenger cars registered in August were fully electric
EVs registered
9,431
of 41,325 new cars
vs July
−5.0%
fewer EVs registered
The month in numbers
August 2025, figure by figure
- EVs registered
- 9,431Fully electric passenger cars, new registrations
- All new passenger cars
- 41,325Every new RY.1 car registered, any fuel
- EV share
- 22.8%More than 1 in 5 new cars
- EVs vs July
- −5.0%9,924 EVs that month · share 21.8%
- EVs vs August 2024
- —No figures for August 2024: our series begins in January 2025
- January–August 2025
- 75,175EVs so far this year · share 20.5%
- Highest share so far
- 27.1%June 2025 · our series begins in January 2025
- Short of one in three
- 10.5 ptsPercentage points below 33.3%
Around the month
Policy and market events around August 2025
Subsidy changes and market-wide events from evchu’s event log, dated in August 2025 or the 45 days before it began. They are listed for their timing only: evchu does not say they caused the month’s figures.
10 days before August beganPolicy
EV Board adjusts EV3 / EV3.5 to favour exports
Source · osos.boi.go.th ↗
Every month
The series to August 2025
| Month | EVs | All new cars | EV share | vs prev. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2025 · This report | 9,431 | 41,325 | 22.8% | −5.0% |
| Jul 2025 | 9,924 | 45,481 | 21.8% | −23.1% |
| Jun 2025 | 12,906 | 47,678 | 27.1% | +9.1% |
| May 2025 | 11,827 | 49,028 | 24.1% | +94.1% |
| Apr 2025 | 6,092 | 40,734 | 15.0% | −19.5% |
| Mar 2025 | 7,570 | 45,741 | 16.5% | +48.7% |
| Feb 2025 | 5,091 | 41,197 | 12.4% | −58.7% |
| Jan 2025 | 12,334 | 55,923 | 22.1% | — |
“vs prev.” is the change in EVs registered on the month before. Every share and change is worked out from the counts, as on /ev-sales, and stands as it was when this report was published.
Best sellers
The best-selling EVs in August 2025
- 01MG4 Electric1,246 registered
- 02BYD Dolphin1,036 registered
- 03BYD Atto 3558 registered
- 04Aion UT501 registered
- 05Changan Lumin458 registered
- 06GWM Ora Good Cat439 registered
- 07Deepal S07434 registered
- 08MGS5 EV431 registered
- 09BYD Sealion 7428 registered
- 10Omoda C5 EV342 registered
Source: DLT first registrations by model (open data), matched to evchu’s catalogue.
By brand
August 2025 by brand
Registrations summed by brand from the 64 models in DLT’s figures by model that evchu matched to its catalogue, 9,268 EVs in all. That is 98.3% of the 9,431 EVs in DLT’s monthly total for August 2025.
Each share is of these models only, not of the whole market.
Movers
The biggest moves from July 2025 to August 2025, among models in both months
From DLT’s figures by model for both months, compared across the 63 models with a count in both. 7 models in only one month are left out: missing from a table is not the same as none registered.
Percentages are given where the earlier month had at least 100.