Top 10 countries by EV battery capacity deployed
Over the first 11 months of 2025, 959.0 GWh of battery capacity was deployed onto roads globally in all newly sold passenger EVs combined, 25% more than the same period last year.
October and November 2025 came in just below the 100 GWh mark, following September’s all-time record for global battery capacity deployment of 109.2 GWh.
Europe showed consistent growth last year expanding by 31% to 192.0 GWh from January through November. That helped to offset weakness in the Americas – deployment of 133.3 GWh in the region is only 5% higher than in 2024. Despite a slowdown in Asia Pacific in the second half of last year, the region upped year-on-year deployment by 27% over the same period to a total of 612.1 GWh.
China expanded at a 24% year-over-year rate to 545.3 GWh, and the global leader is already well beyond the total fresh battery capacity added to its roads in 2024. China accounted for 57% of the GWh deployed worldwide from January through November 2025.
The US market in second with 109.5 GWh, added a meagre 4% more battery capacity to roads than the same period in 2024 after a steep drop following the withdrawal of US retail incentives at the end of September.
Third-placed Germany is experiencing a breakout year and after a contraction in 2024, growth surged by 48% in 2025 for 41.9 GWh through November. The continent’s automotive powerhouse came close to being unseated in 2024, but the gap has now widened with the UK, in fourth, adding 35.6 GWh or 31% more than the year before.
France, in fifth place, was a laggard among European nations, registering 10% growth and deploying 20.8 GWh of new battery capacity over the 11 months. The country had a slow start to the year after tweaks to EV purchase incentives (known as the ‘bonus écologique’), but accelerated in the latter months of 2025.
South Korea, ranked sixth globally, has returned to strong growth after several lackluster years, posting a 65% year-on-year increase to reach 15.7 GWh and surge past Canada, the only country in the ranking to show a year-over-year decline.
Canada’s slump only deepened towards the end of 2025 with deployment down 18% to 12.1 GWh. Canada could cede its position at number seven to Turkey when December data is accounted for with the latter expanding fleet electrification by 118% to 11.9 GWh.
The more mature European markets of Norway and the Netherlands, however, grew by robust 38% and 19% to 10.9 GWh and 10.8 GWh during the first 11 months of 2025, placing ninth and tenth.
Notable fast-growing markets outside the top 10 include Spain in position number 12 (+90% to 8.6 GWh), India in sixteenth spot which showed gains of 138% for a total of 7.4 GWh from January through November, and Vietnam (21st) and Indonesia (22nd) with both countries more than doubling in GWh terms to 7.4 GWh and 7.1 GWh respectively.
Apart from Canada, among major automative markets Japan also stands out for the wrong reasons – deployment on the island nation from January through November 2025 declined by 5% to only 4.9 GWh placing it behind Indonesia in position number 23.
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