New passenger-car registrations in Denmark
Denmark · February 2026
Denmark registered 12 059 new passenger cars in February 2026. That is down 6.3% on January 2026 and up 3.3% on February 2025. Year to date the market stands at 24 933 registrations, up 10.7% on the same period of last year. Private buyers accounted for 66.5% of registrations, the rest going to companies, leasing and fleets. Leasing accounted for 45.2% of the month's registrations, private leasing alone for 18.0%.
No brand or model table exists for February 2026: the importers' association publishes its make and model tables only for its two most recent months and keeps no archive, and auto-stats.eu captures them month by month from the time it added the market. The official totals, the fuel mix and the household and leasing shares above cover every month.
Battery-electric cars took 80.7% of new registrations, compared with 66.1% in February 2025. Plug-in hybrids took 1.0%, diesel 5.6% and petrol 12.7%.
February 2026 was the 25th-highest of the 30 months on this page, which average 14 918 registrations a month; the peak was June 2024 with 19 578 and the low January 2024 with 8 861.
Trends
Fuel mix
Hybrids without a plug are not a category in Statistics Denmark's registration tables; they count as petrol or diesel cars here.
Models
Mobility Denmark publishes its make and model tables only for the two most recent months (with the same months a year earlier) and keeps no archive. auto-stats.eu captures them every month, starting with July 2025; this month has no brand or model table.
Totals, fuel mix, households and leasing are Statistics Denmark's monthly series; brands and models are Mobility Denmark's tables captured for the months they were available, with the model being the label after the brand. Percentages are shown only when the comparison month has at least 30 registrations.