Electric Vehicles and Post-DANA Recovery Boost Car Sales in June

In June, the Spanish new car market closed with very positive figures, reaching a total of 119,125 registered units, marking a significant growth of 15.2% compared to the same month last year. This is the best monthly record of 2025 and the second consecutive month surpassing the 115,000-unit mark.

The market's momentum is attributed to two main factors: the strong sales pace of electrified vehicles and the positive effect of deliveries in the DANA Zone, aided by the Plan Reinicia Auto+ incentives extended until October, according to figures provided on Tuesday by automotive associations Anfac, Faconauto, and Ganvam.

In the first half of the year, 609,801 new car sales were recorded, representing an increase of 13.9% compared to the same period in 2024. Despite this good streak, the market is still 12% below the 2019 figures, before the pandemic.

Electrified cars (including pure electric and plug-in hybrids) were the main highlights of the month. A total of 24,776 units were registered, experiencing a growth of 130.7% in June and reaching their best historical record in a single month. Electrified sales now represent 20.8% of the total market. So far this year, 102,348 electrified units have been sold, 83% more than the previous year, raising their market share to 16.8%, almost 7 percentage points more than in 2024.

This trend towards electrification is also reflected in the average CO2 emissions of cars sold in June, which dropped to 101.9 grams per kilometer, 13% less than in the same month of 2024. In the cumulative total for 2025, average emissions stand at 107.5%, 8.7% less than in the first half of the previous year.

By sales channels, the private market showed excellent performance, with 48,836 new units and a growth of 28.8%. Sales to companies also grew by 14.2%, adding up to 42,208 units. Only the rental channel experienced a slight decline of 1.5% in June.

In other segments, registrations of light commercial vehicles grew by 13.6% in June, with 18,551 units. In the year-to-date, they total 94,911 sales, 11.1% more. On the other hand, registrations of industrial vehicles, buses, coaches, and minibuses fell again in June, with a decline of 4.6% and 2,974 sales. The largest decline was observed in industrial vehicles (-6.2%), while buses and minibuses rose by 8%.

For the manufacturers' association Anfac, this is good news as June has been the month with the highest car sales so far this year, surpassing 119,000 units. Additionally, there have been two consecutive months above 115,000 deliveries. The organization highlights that hybrid vehicles continue to rise while diesel now accounts for less than 6% of monthly sales.

Faconauto (Federation of Automotive Dealer Associations) explains that "the automotive sector in our country has performed much better than expected in this first half of the year, and the main reason is that the sale of electrified vehicles now accounts for almost 20% of all registrations, as supply has been aligning with demand. This is the main change we have seen in this first half and explains the good performance of these technologies."

The National Association of Vehicle Sellers, Repair, and Spare Parts (Ganvam) acknowledges that even isolating the DANA effect, private purchases, which provide the highest profitability to the point of sale, are driving registrations, coinciding with a time when drivers' budgets for purchasing a new vehicle have increased by around 14% compared to last year and are now around 30,000 euros.

"We will have to see how the market behaves in the second half, but if this pace continues, it would be feasible to reach the threshold of 1.1 million units sold," analysts from this organization suggest.