Tesla registered 79,539 vehicles across Europe in the first quarter, according to data compiled by EV from national vehicle registration authorities.
In March alone, 53,545 vehicles were sold across 25 of 27 markets.
Luxembourg and Slovakia had not yet published monthly figures as of early Wednesday.
Sequentially, registrations in March nearly tripled from 17,820 vehicles recorded in February.
Shifts in government purchase incentives across European markets also shaped early-year demand, while quarter-end discounting by Tesla helped lift its registrations.
While countries such as Norway have reduced incentives, others have reintroduced them — including Germany.
At the same time, after a year of declining sales across several European markets, Tesla is beginning to regain momentum as approval of its Full Self-Driving (Supervised) software in Europe draws closer.
Earlier this month, the Dutch regulator RDW approved the system, with the first software update rolling out to drivers in the Netherlands last week.
Other European countries are now awaiting a committee meeting scheduled for May, during which the safety agency will present its findings on the software.
A vote on EU-wide approval is expected between May and June.
Weigh on Q1 Deliveries
Earlier this month, Tesla reported delivering 358,023 vehicles across the globe in the first quarter.
The company missed consensus from 23 sell-side analysts, which expected the company to report 365,645 vehicles delivered between January and March.
However, the figure was still higher than the 336,681 vehicles delivered in the first quarter of 2025 — when Tesla was in the middle of switching production and sales from the older Model Y to the refreshed version.
The European figures compiled by EV would represent about 22.2% of those numbers.
Nordic Countries
The Elon Musk-led company remains the best-selling brand in Norway — the country with the highest EV adoption — having accounted for a share of 34.8% of the whole market.
Official registration data from OFV shows that a total of 6,150 Tesla EVs were sold in Norway last month.
The figures represent a fivefold increase from February and nearly triple that of a year ago.
In Sweden, Tesla’s sales rebounded in March to their highest level in 15 months, despite facing a union blockade for over two years.
The company posted its first year-over-year increase in over twelve months in January, with 512 vehicles sold.
February saw a sequential rise to 553 units, though the figure was still 10% below the same month a year earlier.
Last month, however, Tesla registered 1,784 vehicles in the Swedish market, nearly doubling from the 911 units sold in March 2025.
Bilstatistik data published earlier this month showed that Tesla registered 1,447 vehicles in Denmark in March.
The figures nearly tripled from the 593 units recorded a year earlier.
First-quarter registrations reached 2,324 vehicles, a 50% increase year over year.
Sales in Finland saw a 101% jump to 592 units, while vehicle registrations in Iceland jumped 28% to 309 units.
The UK
Tesla registered 8,599 vehicles in the UK in March, bringing its first-quarter total to 11,739 units.
According to data published by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT), the result marks the first year-over-year increase in six months.
March volumes more than doubled sequentially and rose 20% from the same month a year ago.
Despite the March rebound, first-quarter sales came in roughly 800 units below the same period last year.
Tesla led the UK’s electric vehicle segment in the first quarter, with the Model Y ranking as the best-selling EV model in the first three months of the year.
Germany and the Netherlands
According to data published by the KBA, Tesla saw a fourfold increase in vehicle registrations both year over year and sequentially in Germany.
March’s 9,252 units marked the company’s best monthly result in Europe’s largest auto market since December 2022.
The result gave Tesla a 3.1% share of all new vehicle registrations in the country.
March represented about 75% of all Tesla registrations in Germany during the first quarter, which totaled 12,829 units — a 160% growth year over year.
For comparison, the company had sold 19,390 vehicles — just 7,000 units more — in Germany throughout the whole year of 2025.
Tesla registered 1,819 vehicles in the Netherlands in March, more than doubling the combined total of the first two months of the year.
First quarter figures have jumped to 2,662 units; still, they remained below the 3,446 vehicles registered in the first three months of 2025.
Central and Southern Europe
In France, another country where sales slumped in 2025, the company registered 9,569 vehicles last month — tripling the figures from a year ago.
Tesla had registered 3,715 EVs in the country in February, which suggests a sales surge in the final month of the quarter, as also seen in other European countries.
Registrations in Belgium reached 1,806 units, a 98% surge from a year ago.
Italy saw a 32% jump with 2,920 vehicles registered last month, while Spain registered a 25% rise to 2,477 units.
In Switzerland, a slight 2% increase year over year led March’s sales to 674 vehicles.
Registrations in Portugal declined by a similar 2%. The company registered 1,189 units in the Portuguese market during March.
FSD Expansion
After several delays and alignment issues with regulatory requirements, the RDW approved Tesla’s FSD (Supervised) on April 10 — granting the software provisional type-approval under UN Regulation 171.
The Dutch authority has since notified the Commission and submitted Tesla‘s Article 39 file for EU-wide consideration.
Article 39 of EU Regulation 2018/858 allows national authorities to grant provisional type-approval to vehicles using new technologies that do not fit existing rules, provided the manufacturer can demonstrate equivalent safety standards.
Last week, Italy’s Transport Ministry told a Tesla owner that it is not taking any decision on FSD until the EU-level discussions have concluded.
In an e-mail reply, the Ministry said that “provisional type-approval has national validity and it is at the discretion of each individual Member State to decide whether to accept such type-approval on its own territory.”
France is holding a similar approach.
The Swedish Transport Agency said last week it will follow the EU decision, but flagged a more restrictive interpretation than other member states.
The authority suggests that the Article 39 process covers only newly manufactured vehicles and that updating existing vehicles “is something that falls under national regulations in each EU country.”
