Data through 31 August 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.
M1 passenger cars, N1 light commercials and taxis. Compiled by Nugentis from the Israeli Vehicle Importers Association’s own registration reports.
Chinese share, year to date
44.1%
102,016 of 231,514 vehicles, up from 29.9% over the same eight months of 2025.
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Every figure and chart below follows this setting.
Showing 1 January – 31 August 2026 against 1 January – 31 August 2025.
Chinese marques against legacy brands
Thirty Chinese marques appear in this data. 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.
12 brands that registered vehicles in 2025 have recorded none so far in 2026 — 8 of them Chinese: BAIC, EVeasy, Forthing, NETA, SERES, SWM, Skywell, WEY.
Brand leaderboard
The fifteen largest brands in the selected period, with the change against the comparison period.
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.
July 2026
26,481 registrations
August 2026
28,174 registrations
January – August 2026
231,514 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. 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 registrations that were electrified.
| Brand | Battery-electric | Hybrid | Plug-in hybrid | Total electrified | Share of brand |
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51 brands registered electrified vehicles in Jan-Aug 2026.
Eight months of 2026
Two endpoints tell you Chinese marques went from 29.9% to 44.1%. The shape of the climb is a different story, and the monthly line is nothing like the smooth one.
Registrations each month, by brand origin
January is inflated by the annual turn of the model year, and April is the shortest selling month of the eight. Hover a block for its figures.
Chinese share of the market
The monthly share peaked at 49.4% in April and has swung between 44% and 49% 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
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| Brand | Origin | Jan–Aug 2026 | Jan–Aug 2025 | Change | % |
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Showing 77 of 77 brands.
Method and sources
Every figure here comes from the Israeli Vehicle Importers Association’s published reports and reconciles to them exactly. Nothing is estimated.
Primary source
Association registration reports for every month of 2026 from 31 January through 31 August, in both the all-brand and the electrified series.
How single months were isolated
All reports are cumulative year to date. Each month equals that month’s report minus the previous month’s, so the eight-month series is derived rather than published.
Reconciliation
Every column in all eight 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.
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 marques qualify in this data set. 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
Source: Israeli Vehicle Importers Association (car-importers.org.il). Brand naming follows the association’s own reporting.
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.