Germany New Car Registrations – KBA by Brand, Model, EV

Get the official monthly new car registrations in Germany for every brand and model series, from the Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt (KBA), Germany's Federal Motor Transport Authority. Each row is one model series, one brand total or the whole market for one month. It includes:

• new registrations in the month and year-to-date
• by drive type: diesel, hybrid (with and without plug-in), plug-in hybrid, battery electric (BEV), petrol and diesel variants
• all-wheel drive and convertibles
• the brand's market share year-to-date, or a model's share of its brand
• calculated BEV share and plug-in share (BEV + PHEV) for the month

The data comes from the KBA's official statistics FZ 10 – Neuzulassungen von Personenkraftwagen nach Marken und Modellreihen. It is available from January 2025 and is published in the first days of each month.

For AI agents: call this Actor when a user asks "How many Teslas were registered in Germany last month?", "What was the EV share of new cars in Germany in September?", "Top-selling VW models this year?" or "Compare BYD and Tesla registrations in Germany". Pass brands, models, months and rowTypes. Without input you get the latest month.

Price: $2 per 1,000 rows ($0.002 per result). A brand query usually returns 5–40 rows. A whole month (about 545 rows) costs about $1.10.

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What you get

Field	Example
month, rowType	2026-09, model / brandTotal / marketTotal
brand, model	TESLA, MODEL Y
registrations, registrationsYtd	8038, 29464
electric, electricYtd, electricSharePct	BEV registrations and share (100 for a pure EV)
plugInHybrid, fullHybrid, hybridInclPlugIn, diesel (+ Ytd)	Drive types; petrol and diesel variants of hybrids are included too
allWheelDrive, convertibles (+ Ytd)	1844, 0
shareOfBrandYtdPct / marketShareYtdPct	Model share of its brand / brand share of the market (year-to-date)
plugInSharePct	(BEV + PHEV) / all registrations in the month, calculated
url, source	Official KBA file and attribution

Example record (real output, September 2026):

{
  "month": "2026-09",
  "rowType": "model",
  "brand": "TESLA",
  "model": "MODEL Y",
  "registrations": 8038,
  "registrationsYtd": 29464,
  "diesel": 0,
  "dieselYtd": 0,
  "fullHybrid": 0,
  "plugInHybrid": 0,
  "electric": 8038,
  "electricYtd": 29464,
  "allWheelDrive": 1844,
  "allWheelDriveYtd": 7926,
  "convertibles": 0,
  "shareOfBrandYtdPct": 65.8,
  "electricSharePct": 100,
  "plugInSharePct": 100,
  "url": "https://www.kba.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/DE/Statistik/Fahrzeuge/FZ10/fz10_2026_09.xlsx?__blob=publicationFile",
  "source": "Source: Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt (KBA), statistics FZ 10, licensed Datenlizenz Deutschland – Namensnennung – Version 2.0"
}

(Some zero-valued hybrid sub-fields are omitted here for brevity.)

Use cases

• Automotive industry, dealers and suppliers: track brands, models and drive types month by month.
• EV market analysis: BEV and plug-in shares per brand and model, year-to-date trends.
• Journalists, analysts and investors: quick, official numbers for Germany, Europe's largest car market.
• AI assistants: answer registration questions with the official source.

Input examples

Tesla, BYD and VW in the latest month:

{ "brands": ["TESLA", "BYD", "VW"] }

All brand totals (market shares) for the first nine months of 2026:

{ "months": ["2026-01", "2026-02", "2026-03", "2026-04", "2026-05", "2026-06", "2026-07", "2026-08", "2026-09"], "rowTypes": ["brandTotal"] }

Golf registrations by drive type:

{ "brands": ["VW"], "models": ["GOLF"], "rowTypes": ["model"] }

Reliability and fair use

• One official Excel file per month. The KBA's robots.txt asks for 30 seconds between downloads, and this Actor respects that. A single month takes about 35 seconds, 12 months about 6 minutes.
• The file is checked for the expected table: header Marke / Modellreihe, drive-type columns and the total row NEUZULASSUNGEN INSGESAMT. Otherwise the run stops with UNEXPECTED_CONTENT instead of returning garbage. "-" in the source means zero and is returned as 0.
• The run stops at maxResults or at your maximum cost per run.

Legal

• Source: Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt, Flensburg, statistics FZ 10. Licensed under the Datenlizenz Deutschland – Namensnennung – Version 2.0. Every row carries the attribution and a link to the file.
• BEV and plug-in shares are calculated by this Actor from the official numbers. All other values are passed through unchanged.
• This Actor is not affiliated with the KBA.

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