In Colombia, 20 electric cars and 70 hybrids are sold daily: these are the most in-demand brands of the first half of the year.

Sales of both electric and hybrid vehicles continue to soar. In the first half of 2025, the former grew at an annual rate of 204 percent, representing 7 percent of total new vehicle registrations in the country during that period, while the latter grew at 49 percent, accounting for 27 percent of total registrations in the first six months of the year, according to the Ando and Fenalco report, prepared based on data from the National Single Transit Registry (Runt).

Thus, in this first phase of this year , 7,294 new electric vehicles and 25,541 hybrid vehicles began rolling onto the country's roads. In June alone, 1,141 units of the former and 4,549 of the latter entered the Colombian vehicle fleet, according to the report.

This means that, in the sixth month of 2025 alone, 38 electric vehicles were sold every day, roughly equivalent to 1.6 cars in this segment per hour. This was not the best month of the first half of the year—1,385 units were registered in March.

Of the hybrids, there were approximately 152 daily, at a rate of 6.3 per hour, although this would be if dealers were working 24 hours a day in both cases. The best month of the first half of the year for hybrids was May, with 5,283 units sold.

Another revealing fact revealed in the aforementioned report is that from 2014 to the cutoff date last June, 27,686 electric vehicles have entered the Colombian vehicle fleet, but it was only in 2019 that the demand for this type of vehicle began to gain momentum.

For hybrids, this volume reached 145,070 units in the same period , and substantial growth in the purchase of these vehicles began in 2019, rising from 539 in 2018 to 2,209 a year later. Last year alone, 42,668 new units were sold.

According to the union report, cars and so-called SUVs (Sports Utility Vehicles in Spanish), which combine the characteristics of a passenger car and an all-terrain vehicle, are the most in-demand, with 2,003 and 5,067 units, respectively.

The five brands with the highest number of registrations between January and June were: BYD, with a 53.3 percent market share; Kia, with a 10.2 percent share . They were followed by Volvo, Renault, and BMW with 8 percent, 3 percent, and 2.3 percent. These five brands accounted for 77 percent of the total electric vehicle registrations in the first half of 2025.

Looking at electric vehicle lines during the same period, the following vehicles were registered: BYD Yuan Up (30.1 percent), BYD Seagull (16 percent), Kia Ev5 (7.6 percent), Volvo Ex30 (6.2 percent), and BYD Yuan Plus (3.2 percent), occupying the top five spots in the country; these vehicles accounted for 63.2 percent of all electric vehicle registrations.

On the other hand, the metropolitan areas where the greatest growth in registrations of this type of vehicles was recorded in the first half of the year were Armenia with 1,666.7 percent, followed by Barranquilla with 800 percent, Manizales (744.4 percent), Villavicencio (685.7 percent) and Bucaramanga (623.8 percent).

SUVs and cars are also the most in-demand vehicles in the hybrid segment, according to the report released by Andi and Fenalco. In the first six months of 2025, 21,411 and 3,685 new units were sold, respectively.

The five brands with the highest number of registrations between January and June were Toyota, with 25.5 percent, followed by Suzuki, with 15.1 percent. Other brands included Mazda (14.1 percent), Hyundai (8 percent), and Renault (6.9 percent), which together accounted for 69.6 percent of all hybrid vehicles sold during that period.

The best-selling models during the same period were the Toyota Corolla Cross with 16 percent, the Mazda CX-30 with 10.6 percent , the Suzuki Swift with 6.4 percent, the Renault Arkana with 5.9 percent, and the Toyota Yaris Cross with 4.5 percent of the market; these five models represented 43.4 percent of the total hybrid vehicles registered in the first half of 2025.

As for the regions where this type of vehicle was registered the most, Manizales again appears with 1,035.5 percent of the total, followed by Bucaramanga with 234.1 percent, Ibagué with 200 percent, Cartagena with 181.1 percent, and Mosquera with 134.1 percent.