Data through 30 September 2026
Israel vehicle registrations
Every brand registered in Israel, read three ways — against last month, against the same month last year, and across the year to date. Chinese marques are tracked against the legacy brands they are taking share from.
Every new private car and light commercial registered with the Ministry of Transport, motorcycles excluded, matched brand by brand to the Importers Association’s reports. Compiled by Nugentis.
Chinese share, year to date
43.0%
113,510 of 264,136 vehicles, up from 31.5% over the same nine months of 2025.
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Every figure and chart below follows this setting.
Showing 1 January – 30 September 2026 against 1 January – 30 September 2025.
Chinese marques against legacy brands
Thirty-four Chinese marques appear in this data, plus 5 Ministry labels that name China as the country of make but could not be matched to a brand name (56 vehicles this year). The market share line is the single number the rest of the page explains. The classification rule, and the borderline calls, are set out at the bottom of this page.
11 brands that registered vehicles in 2025 have recorded none so far in 2026 — 6 of them Chinese: EVeasy, Forthing, NETA, SERES, SWM, WEY (and 2 unverified Ministry labels).
Brand leaderboard
The fifteen largest brands in the selected period, with the change against the comparison period. A percentage is shown only when the comparison base has at least 50 vehicles; a brand whose earlier figure was a handful of launch or test registrations is marked “from N” instead.
How Israel is buying its powertrains
Each bar is the whole of its own period, so the blocks compare as shares. The association publishes no powertrain split for prior years, so these three periods are all 2026.
Association count only. The Ministry of Transport does not separate hybrids from petrol, so this split relies on the Importers Association’s reports alone. It covers member importers’ registrations and leaves out the parallel and indirect channel, 3.4% of the market this year, whose powertrain mix is not published.
August 2026
28,174 Association registrations
September 2026
23,709 Association registrations
January – September 2026
255,223 Association registrations
What each brand actually sells
The electrified mix behind each brand in the selected period, and how much of that brand’s volume it accounts for. Follows the comparison and origin filters above. This section relies on the Importers Association’s reports alone: shares are of each brand’s Association count, so vehicles that reached Israel outside the association (3.4% of the market this year) are not included, and the association publishes no powertrain split for prior years, so this always shows 2026.
Bars share one scale. The figure on the right of each bar is the share of that brand’s own Association registrations that were electrified.
| Brand | Battery-electric | Hybrid | Plug-in hybrid | Total electrified | Share of brand |
|---|
51 brands registered electrified vehicles through association members in Jan–Sep 2026. Shares are of each brand’s Association count.
Nine months of 2026
Two endpoints tell you Chinese marques went from 31.5% to 43.0%. The shape of the climb is a different story, and the monthly line is nothing like the smooth one. Every registration counts here, whoever imported the vehicle.
Registrations each month, by brand origin
January is inflated by the annual turn of the model year, and April is the smallest month of the nine. Hover a block for its figures.
Chinese share of the market
The monthly share peaked at 47.8% in April and has run between 43% and 47% since. The year-to-date line rises steadily because it carries every earlier month with it — which is why a single cumulative figure understates how far the market has already moved.
Every brand
Click a column heading to sort. Filter by origin above, or search for a brand. Percentages are shown only against a base of at least 50 vehicles.
| Brand | Origin | Jan–Sep 2026 | Jan–Sep 2025 | Change | % |
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Showing 94 of 94 brands.
Ministry of Transport view · data through September 2026
The official count
The Ministry of Transport records every new car and van that goes on the road, whoever imported it, so parallel and indirect imports appear here that the Importers Association's reports leave out. Motorcycles are excluded. The MoT does not separate conventional hybrids from petrol, so the powertrain story stays with the Association figures above.
On the road in September 2026
24,783
▼ 15.5% vs August 2026 · ▼ 17.5% vs September 2025
January–September 2026
264,136
▲ 5.8% vs January–September 2025 (249,566)
Chinese marques, this month
45.6%
11,303 of 24,783 vehicles
Chinese marques, year to date
43.0%
113,510 of 264,136, from 31.5% over January–September 2025
Brand leaderboard, year to date
The fifteen largest brands by MoT registrations in January–September 2026. Jaecoo and Omoda are counted separately, as the MoT records them.
| Brand | September | vs September 2025 | YTD | vs YTD 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Toyota | 2,846 | ▼ 3.6% | 29,765 | ▼ 8.8% | 11.3% |
| Jaecoo CN | 2,015 | ▼ 11.0% | 28,131 | ▲ 114.8% | 10.7% |
| Chery CN | 2,065 | ▼ 40.7% | 26,066 | ▲ 24.7% | 9.9% |
| Hyundai | 1,534 | ▼ 23.1% | 22,899 | ▼ 18.0% | 8.7% |
| Kia | 1,283 | ▼ 34.9% | 20,522 | ▲ 1.4% | 7.8% |
| BYD CN | 1,910 | ▼ 20.5% | 17,701 | ▲ 52.9% | 6.7% |
| Skoda | 999 | ▼ 29.7% | 16,599 | ▼ 2.0% | 6.3% |
| MG CN | 1,560 | ▲ 194.3% | 11,453 | ▲ 48.8% | 4.3% |
| Geely CN | 705 | ▲ 138.2% | 6,293 | ▲ 121.6% | 2.4% |
| Tesla | 1,810 | ▲ 40.9% | 4,982 | ▲ 36.8% | 1.9% |
| XPeng CN | 789 | ▲ 86.5% | 4,800 | ▼ 12.7% | 1.8% |
| Omoda CN | 418 | — | 4,250 | from 1 | 1.6% |
| Citroen | 323 | ▲ 2.5% | 4,218 | ▲ 12.1% | 1.6% |
| BMW | 294 | ▼ 33.2% | 4,187 | ▲ 6.7% | 1.6% |
| Mercedes-Benz | 327 | ▲ 24.3% | 3,781 | ▲ 45.1% | 1.4% |
Who put them on the road
Importers ranked by the model codes they hold in the MoT importer price list. A parallel import of a model the official importer also sells is counted with that importer.
| Importer | September | YTD | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| קרסו מוטורס בע"מ | 3,634 | 38,158 | 14.4% |
| כלמוביל בע"מ | 2,795 | 33,817 | 12.8% |
| יוניון מוטורס בע"מ | 2,590 | 28,222 | 10.7% |
| צ'מפיון מוטורס בע"מ | 1,614 | 24,613 | 9.3% |
| כלמוביל יונדאי | 1,523 | 22,806 | 8.6% |
| טל - קאר | 1,422 | 22,454 | 8.5% |
| שלמה מוטורס בע"מ | 1,910 | 17,701 | 6.7% |
| קאר איסט יבוא רכב בע"מ | 1,607 | 11,792 | 4.5% |
| דוד לובינסקי בע"מ | 578 | 7,978 | 3.0% |
| גיאו מוביליטי בע"מ | 831 | 7,932 | 3.0% |
What the public count does not show
The MoT also records who first owned each car — private buyer, leasing company, rental fleet, company or dealer — and when it changed hands. The share of each brand's cars that passed through dealer ownership within three months of registration is tracked, by brand, in the monthly Israeli Automotive Intelligence Report.
Source: Israel Ministry of Transport open data (data.gov.il): new vehicles by model per month, importer price list, vehicle registry and ownership history. Private cars and light commercials with a model code; motorcycles excluded. Brand grouping by Nugentis. Compiled 2026-10-07.
Two counts, one market · data through September 2026
What the Association count leaves out
The Importers Association reports the registrations of its member importers. The Ministry of Transport records every registration. Both count the same event, a new vehicle going on the road, so the difference between them is the market that reaches Israel outside the Association: parallel and indirect imports, and brands with no member importer.
Association count, September 2026
23,709
member importers' registrations
Every registration, September 2026
24,783
Ministry of Transport, motorcycles excluded
Outside the Association, September
1,074
4.3% of the month
Outside the Association, January–September 2026
8,913
3.4% of 264,136 registrations
Month by month
The channel outside the Association has run between 671 and 1,187 vehicles a month, and its share of the market has moved from 2.6% in January to 4.3% in September.
| Month | Association | All | Outside | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 41,618 | 42,741 | 1,123 | 2.6% |
| February | 27,214 | 28,067 | 853 | 3.0% |
| March | 26,356 | 27,181 | 825 | 3.0% |
| April | 19,339 | 20,010 | 671 | 3.4% |
| May | 29,456 | 30,468 | 1,012 | 3.3% |
| June | 32,876 | 33,874 | 998 | 2.9% |
| July | 26,481 | 27,668 | 1,187 | 4.3% |
| August | 28,174 | 29,344 | 1,170 | 4.0% |
| September | 23,709 | 24,783 | 1,074 | 4.3% |
| January–September 2026 | 255,223 | 264,136 | 8,913 | 3.4% |
Where the gap sits, January–September 2026
The ten brands with the most registrations outside the Association. For Chinese marques the two counts match almost exactly: that market comes through member importers.
| Brand | Association | All registrations | Outside | Share of brand |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Toyota | 26,234 | 29,765 | 3,531 | 11.9% |
| Mercedes-Benz | 2,390 | 3,781 | 1,391 | 36.8% |
| BMW | 3,093 | 4,187 | 1,094 | 26.1% |
| Land Rover | 650 | 1,552 | 902 | 58.1% |
| Jeep | 540 | 897 | 357 | 39.8% |
| Cadillac | 217 | 460 | 243 | 52.8% |
| Honda | 694 | 881 | 187 | 21.2% |
| Audi | 1,805 | 1,980 | 175 | 8.8% |
| Ford | 600 | 756 | 156 | 20.6% |
| Porsche | 182 | 330 | 148 | 44.8% |
How the two counts are matched
Brand names are aligned to the Ministry's manufacturer labels: Omoda and Jaecoo are combined, MINI is counted with BMW, Hongqi is registered under its maker FAW, and GAC includes Aion. Differences of a few vehicles either way between the two sources reflect labelling and timing at the margin and are left as they are. Brands the Association reports but the Ministry has not yet labelled are shown without a whole-market figure.
Sources: Israeli Vehicle Importers Association registration reports (car-importers.org.il), single months derived from consecutive cumulative reports; Israel Ministry of Transport open data (data.gov.il), new vehicles by model per month, motorcycles excluded. Matching by Nugentis. Compiled 2026-10-08.
Method and sources
Market figures come from the Ministry of Transport’s open data, matched brand by brand to the Importers Association’s published reports. The powertrain split comes from the Association alone. Nothing is estimated.
Primary sources
Ministry of Transport open data (data.gov.il): new vehicles by model for every month of 2026 through September and the same months of 2025, motorcycles excluded. Importers Association registration reports for every month of 2026 from 31 January through 30 September, in both the all-brand and the electrified series.
How single months were isolated
The Ministry publishes each month directly. Association reports are cumulative year to date: each month equals that month’s report minus the previous month’s, so the nine-month Association series is derived rather than published.
Reconciliation
Every column in all nine Association reports sums to its printed total, every brand’s powertrain components sum to its row total, no brand’s cumulative figure ever falls between reports, no derived month is negative, and no electrified figure exceeds its all-powertrain figure. Brand by brand, the Ministry count is never below the Association count by more than a handful of vehicles.
What this is not
Registrations are not retail sales. Vehicles registered to importers and dealers appear here before reaching a customer. That gap is tracked separately in the monthly report.
How “Chinese” is defined
A marque counts as Chinese when it is owned by a Chinese group and its vehicles are designed and built in China. Thirty-four marques qualify in this data set, plus 5 Ministry labels that name China as the country of make but could not be matched to a brand name (56 vehicles this year). The judgement calls:
- MG— British marque, owned by SAIC (China) since 2007
- Ora— Great Wall Motor
- SWM— Italian marque, vehicles built by Shineray (China)
- EVeasy— Renault / JMEV joint venture, built in China
- Volvo— Geely-owned but Swedish-built and Swedish-engineered - counted as legacy
- Smart— Geely / Mercedes-Benz joint venture - counted as legacy, consistent with prior reporting
- MINI— BMW Group; its electric models are built in China by the BMW / Great Wall joint venture - counted with BMW, as the Ministry records them
- Hongqi— FAW; the Ministry registers it under the maker’s name
- Omoda and Jaecoo— one association member, two Ministry labels: shown as separate rows in the market views, as the Ministry records them, and as one line in the powertrain section, as the Association reports them. GAC and Aion are treated the same way
Sources: Israel Ministry of Transport open data (data.gov.il) and the Israeli Vehicle Importers Association (car-importers.org.il). Brand naming follows the association’s reporting; Ministry labels are mapped to it by Nugentis.
This is the surface. The analysis is monthly.
The Hebrew-language Israeli Automotive Intelligence Report goes further — importer-accurate attribution, brand-level scorecards, and the inventory gap between registrations and private sales. Request a sample edition.