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Who registers the new electric car in Spain: private, company and fleets · 2015

How many new electric cars each type of owner registers in Spain in 2015 — private individuals, companies, leasing (renting), rental fleets and taxis — with the brand and model ranking for each. In Spain, company and fleet channels move a large share of the BEV market, so who registers a car tells you as much as how many.

DGT data · full year 2015 · new BEV passenger cars

Year History 2026 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015
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New BEV · 2015 1,157 passenger cars registered in Spain
Private 246 · 21.3% of new BEV
Companies 911 · 78.7% of new BEV
Leasing 79 · 6.8% of new BEV

Who registers the new BEV · 2015

Private and company add up to 100% of new BEV passenger cars.

Private
24621.3%
Company
91178.7%

How much each owner type registers · 2015

New BEV passenger cars in each segment. The name links to its page.

  1. Companies 91178.7%
  2. Rent a car (self-drive) 43337.4%
  3. Private 24621.3%
  4. Leasing 796.8%
  5. Taxi 70.6%
  6. Chauffeur hire 10.1%

The small figure is the % of new BEV. The segments overlap: leasing, rental and taxi sit inside company, so the bars don’t add up to 100%.

Private

246 new BEV to private owners · 2015.

The most registered brands

  1. 1. Renault 1109.5%
  2. 2. Kia 423.6%
  3. 3. Nissan 413.5%
  4. 4. BMW 161.4%
  5. 5. Smart 141.2%
  6. 6. Volkswagen 141.2%
  7. 7. Mercedes-Benz 30.3%
  8. 8. Tesla 30.3%
  9. 9. BYD 10.1%
  10. 10. Citroën 10.1%

The most registered models

  1. 1. Renault Zoe 110
  2. 2. Kia Soul 42
  3. 3. Nissan Leaf 36
  4. 4. BMW i3 16
  5. 5. Smart Fortwo 14
  6. 6. Volkswagen E Golf 7
  7. 7. Volkswagen E Up 7
  8. 8. Nissan E Nv200 5
  9. 9. Mercedes-Benz B 3
  10. 10. Tesla Model S 3

Company

911 new BEV to companies (legal entities) · 2015.

The most registered brands

  1. 1. Smart 37432.3%
  2. 2. Nissan 20818.0%
  3. 3. Renault 20317.5%
  4. 4. Kia 474.1%
  5. 5. BMW 363.1%
  6. 6. Mercedes-Benz 111.0%
  7. 7. Volkswagen 111.0%
  8. 8. Tesla 100.9%
  9. 9. Citroën 60.5%
  10. 10. Peugeot 20.2%

The most registered models

  1. 1. Smart Fortwo 374
  2. 2. Renault Zoe 203
  3. 3. Nissan Leaf 166
  4. 4. Kia Soul 47
  5. 5. Nissan E Nv200 42
  6. 6. BMW i3 36
  7. 7. Mercedes-Benz B 11
  8. 8. Tesla Model S 10
  9. 9. Volkswagen E Golf 7
  10. 10. Citroën C Zero 6

The leading brand in each owner type · 2015

The most registered brand within each segment, with its new BEV passenger cars.

Companies Smart 374
Rent a car (self-drive) Smart 351
Private Renault 110
Leasing Renault 47
Taxi Nissan 6
Chauffeur hire BYD 1

Leasing and rental: the layers inside company

How companies register. The layers overlap — a car can be both on leasing and registered to a company — so they don’t add up.

All on the same scale, with company as the baseline. Leasing and rental are layers inside company: they’re compared against it, not a split of it.

Leasing (renting)

Car on a monthly fee

79

6.8% of new BEV

The most registered brands

  1. 1. Renault 474.1%
  2. 2. Nissan 121.0%
  3. 3. Smart 60.5%
  4. 4. BMW 50.4%
  5. 5. Citroën 30.3%
  6. 6. Volkswagen 30.3%
  7. 7. Mercedes-Benz 20.2%
  8. 8. Kia 10.1%

Rental

Rent-a-car and chauffeur hire

434

37.5% of new BEV

The most registered brands

  1. 1. Smart 35130.3%
  2. 2. Nissan 655.6%
  3. 3. Renault 121.0%
  4. 4. BMW 50.4%
  5. 5. BYD 10.1%

Rental in detail: self-drive vs chauffeur hire · 2015

Rental is two different businesses: rent-a-car (self-drive, A01) and chauffeur hire (A02 — not ride-hailing such as Uber or Cabify). Top brands in each.

Self-drive (A01) · rent-a-car

  1. 1. Smart 35130.3%
  2. 2. Nissan 655.6%
  3. 3. Renault 121.0%
  4. 4. BMW 50.4%

Chauffeur hire (A02)

  1. 1. BYD 10.1%

The models in each owner type · 2015

Which model each owner type chooses. The segments overlap — a car can be both on leasing and registered to a company.

Leasing (renting)

Leasing (renting) · 2015: 79 → 2026: 11,673

79 registrations · 6.8% of new BEV

  1. 1. Renault Zoe 47
  2. 2. Nissan Leaf 10
  3. 3. Smart Fortwo 6
  4. 4. BMW i3 5
  5. 5. Citroën C Zero 3
  6. 6. Mercedes-Benz B 2
  7. 7. Nissan E Nv200 2
  8. 8. Volkswagen E Golf 2
  9. 9. Kia Soul 1
  10. 10. Volkswagen E Up 1

Rental (rent-a-car + chauffeur hire)

Rental (rent-a-car + chauffeur hire) · 2015: 434 → 2026: 5,982

434 registrations · 37.5% of new BEV

  1. 1. Smart Fortwo 351
  2. 2. Nissan Leaf 65
  3. 3. Renault Zoe 12
  4. 4. BMW i3 5
  5. 5. BYD E6 1

Taxi (A04)

Taxi (A04) · 2015: 7 → 2026: 926

7 registrations · 0.6% of new BEV

  1. 1. Nissan E Nv200 4
  2. 2. Nissan Leaf 2
  3. 3. Kia Soul 1

Data: own compilation based on DGT vehicle registration microdata, published under a CC BY 4.0 licence. Methodology · Terms of use.

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