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The second quarter of 2026 noticed plugin EVs take 67.0% share in Sweden, up from 62.5% in Q2 2025. BEV share grew strongly 12 months on 12 months (YoY), and PHEVs additionally grew. Total Q2 auto quantity was 79,891 items, up some 22% YoY. The Volvo EX40 was once more the best-selling BEV in Q2.
2026 Q2 auto gross sales noticed mixed plugin EVs take 67.0% share in Sweden, with full electrics (BEVs) at 42.0% and plugin hybrids (PHEVs) at 25.0%. These figures examine YoY in opposition to 62.5% mixed, 36.2% BEVs and 26.4% PHEVs.
BEV quantity was up by a considerable 42% YoY, while PHEV quantity was up by 16%. BEV quantity positive factors had been helped by a lot stronger YoY efficiency by Kia, BMW, Toyota, and Volvo, primarily on account of their new (or refreshed) mannequin choices. Volkswagen Group efficiency was considerably down YoY, maybe on account of non permanent market-allocation priorities. The brand new-for-2026 BEV incentive scheme (focusing on below-average-income households in rural areas) appears to be working.
Based mostly on present tendencies, we may even see Sweden obtain a BEV share of near 50% within the last months of this 12 months. The trajectory of BEVs was on a good pattern up till late 2022, however had stagnated since (see graph under). Now it’s again to progress, lastly.
Mixed ICE share now stands at 25.7%, and can proceed to decrease all year long.
Finest-Promoting BEV Fashions
But once more, the Volvo EX40 gained the highest spot, a consecutive run of 4 quarters. It registered 3,334 items. In second was the Tesla Mannequin Y with 2,450 items (virtually precisely the identical quantity as Q1). In third was the Volvo EX30, with 1,905 items.
That is precisely the identical prime 3 rating that we noticed in Q1, and far of the remainder of the highest 10 is comparable, with simply slight shuffling.
Standout performances got here from the refreshed BMW iX3 which got here in seventh (1,198 items), initially showing in late Q1, and now as much as sturdy volumes. A few of this shall be non permanent pent-up demand, however it ought to stabilize at the next degree than the earlier model (which not often bought above 300 items in anybody quarter).
The brand new Kia PV5 – which debuted in late This autumn – additionally climbed steadily to twelfth spot (736 items). Its siblings, the EV5 and EV4 noticed related progress tendencies, touchdown in 14th and sixteenth spots, respectively. The most important positive factors got here to the brand new Kia EV2, which had solely seen single-digit showroom volumes in Q1, however shot as much as seventeenth spot, and 647 items, in Q2.
There have been a couple of new debutants in Q2, together with (so as of quantity): The Subaru Uncharted; Subaru Outback; Cupra Raval; Porsche Cayenne; Xpeng P7+; Lexus ES; and Zeekr 7GT.
Essentially the most inexpensive of those is the Cupra Raval, at the moment solely supplied within the bigger 52 kWh battery variant, ranging from 368,900 SEK (33,400€) earlier than incentives. The smaller 37 kWh model will solely be supplied within the Autumn, ranging from 320,900 SEK (29,070€).
This isn’t very eager pricing (the 37 kWh worth begins at 26,000€ in Spain, for instance), however doubtless VW Group is counting on the Swedish incentive scheme to make the value extra accessible. Once more this a case of the incentives really going straight into the pockets of legacy auto’s shareholders and execs, relatively than really making BEVs extra inexpensive for abnormal customers. In any other case generally known as corruption, one thing rampant within the European ruling courses (although not as rampant as within the US).
Outlook
BEVs are lastly again to a progress trajectory in Sweden, and PHEVs are nonetheless holding up for now, with HEV and ICE choices seeing regular declines.
The Swedish macroeconomy has cooled over the previous 3 quarters, although figures for the current quarters are continuously being revised (examine this with final quarter’s report) – that is regarding, and suggests political manipulation. The newest narrative is that YoY GDP progress stood at 2.3% in 2025 Q3, 2.0% in This autumn, and a couple of.0% in Q1. Headline inflation stands at 0.7% as of the tip of Q2, from 0.5% as of Q1 finish. Rates of interest have been flat at 1.75% since late September. Manufacturing PMI rose to a good 58.3 factors in June, a gentle rise from 56.4 factors in March.
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