Monthly report · October 2026

EVs took at least a third of Thai new cars for a 5th straight month in October 2026

Fully electric cars made up 35.1% of new passenger cars registered in Thailand in October 2026 (17,265 of 49,196), with EV registrations up 79.8% on October 2025.

35.1%

of new passenger cars registered in October were fully electric

EVs registered

17,265

of 49,196 new cars

vs October 2025

+79.8%

more EVs registered

Fully electric share of new passenger cars registered in Thailand, by month, to October 2026Source: Department of Land Transport ↗

The month in numbers

October 2026, figure by figure

EVs registered: 17,265Fully electric passenger cars, new registrations
All new passenger cars: 49,196Every new RY.1 car registered, any fuel
EV share: 35.1%More than 1 in 3 new cars
EVs vs September: −10.2%19,220 EVs that month · share 34.9%
EVs vs October 2025: +79.8%9,602 EVs that month · share 23.3%
January–October 2026: 182,681EVs so far this year · share 33.0%+94.0% on the same months of 2025
Highest share so far: 47.5%January 2026 · our series begins in January 2025
At one in three or more: 5 monthsIn a row, to October 2026

Around the month

Policy and market events around October 2026

Subsidy changes and market-wide events from evchu’s event log, dated in October 2026 or the 45 days before it began. They are listed for their timing only: evchu does not say they caused the month’s figures.

31 Aug 202631 days before October beganPolicy
EV3.5 1:1 local-production deadline for 2024 imports

Every month

The series to October 2026

Fully electric passenger cars registered in Thailand each month, against all new passenger cars, newest first
Month	EVs	All new cars	EV share	vs prev.
Oct 2026 · This report	17,265	49,196	35.1%	−10.2%
Sep 2026	19,220	55,137	34.9%	−11.9%
Aug 2026	21,823	56,775	38.4%	+3.6%
Jul 2026	21,074	53,384	39.5%	+6.3%
Jun 2026	19,826	56,601	35.0%	+9.4%
May 2026	18,116	56,482	32.1%	+81.0%
Apr 2026	10,007	44,301	22.6%	−0.9%
Mar 2026	10,095	53,342	18.9%	+110.8%
Feb 2026	4,790	43,589	11.0%	−88.2%
Jan 2026	40,465	85,100	47.5%	+185.1%
Dec 2025	14,194	38,791	36.6%	+37.1%
Nov 2025	10,351	39,921	25.9%	+7.8%
Oct 2025	9,602	41,159	23.3%	+2.1%
Sep 2025	9,400	43,271	21.7%	−0.3%
Aug 2025	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.

Download every month (CSV)DLT registration statistics ↗The full series on evchu →

Best sellers

The best-selling EVs in July 2026

evchu’s figures by model run behind the monthly total. The latest ranking it has up to October 2026 is for July 2026.

Source: Autolife Thailand’s monthly top 30 of EV registrations; ranks as published. A rank with no model is one evchu could not match to its catalogue.

By brand

July 2026 by brand

Registrations summed by brand from the 29 models of Autolife Thailand’s monthly top 30 that evchu matched to its catalogue, 18,865 EVs in all. DLT’s monthly total for July 2026 was 21,074 EVs. Autolife’s table is counted separately, so it is not given as a share of that total.

Each share is of these models only, not of the whole market.

Movers

The biggest moves from June 2026 to July 2026, among models in both months

From Autolife Thailand’s monthly top 30 for both months, compared across the 24 models in both tables. 9 models in only one month are left out: missing from a table is not the same as none registered.

Rose most

Fell most

Percentages are given where the earlier month had at least 100.

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