August 2026 was the biggest month Malaysia’s EV market has ever had, and the Proton e.MAS 5 is the reason. Registrations of the compact electric crossover nearly doubled to 4,770 units, up 98.6% from July’s 2,402, according to the latest road transport department (JPJ) data. That is more than half of every EV registered in the month, and the e.MAS 5 is back to fifth in the overall sales chart, matching its January high, as the only EV ever to have made the top five.
The e.MAS 5 outsold the runner-up more than seven to one. The Tesla Model 3 leaps from 11th to second with 659 units, up from just 135 in July, ahead of the Proton e.MAS 7 in third on 613 units (4,004 YTD) and the Tesla Model Y in fourth with 507 (1,978 YTD).
The Zeekr 7X is fifth with 308 units (2,449 YTD), followed by the iCaur V23 in sixth on 264 (2,173 YTD). The BYD Atto 3 has a month to forget, tumbling from second to seventh as registrations more than halved to 252 units (3,027 YTD). The iCaur 03 is eighth with 142, the Leapmotor C10 ninth with 125 and the BYD Sealion 10th with 118, itself down 53% on the month.
BYD’s slide runs through the middle of the table. The Leapmotor B10 is 11th with 94 units, then come the BYD Seal 6 in 12th (84 units) and the BYD Atto 2 in 13th (81 units, down 61.8%). The Xpeng X9 climbs to 14th with 72 units, the TQ Wuling Bingo is 15th with 71 and the MG S5 16th with 67.
Completing the top 20 are the Zeekr X in 17th (59 units, more than double July’s 26), the Perodua QV-E 18th (56, down from 109), the BMW iX3 19th with 55 units, up from a single unit in July, and the Great Wall Ora 20th with 41. In total, 8,833 EVs were registered in August, up 27.3% from July’s 6,937 and 155% higher than August 2025, a new monthly record that took EVs to 11.4% of the whole market.
Want to dig deeper? Our car sales data tool lets you explore and analyse Malaysian new-vehicle registrations in detail, from monthly and yearly trends for every make and model to rankings by brand, body type and fuel, plus dedicated views for the EV market and the national carmakers, all built on the same JPJ data behind this story and updated every month.
That’s amazing,
It’s about 50,000 EV sold till date for this year,
The growth is better than 2025.
With more comfortable, spacious and powerful car, there will be love, driver happy, passenger like it.
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But those downvotes coming from jealousy tesla fanboys don’t agree with you…
Yeah doesn’t mean those downvote are majority tesla fans, people are neutral and its their opinion, we don’t like someone being so proud like a bot comment louder while irl no one said that things and no one even said any negative things
What a baseless comment…but yet making more people for buying byd more due to your comments anyway
You don’t understand based on this comment section from what he said…are you okay?
Bored design and have issue , i bet zeekr more better than byd
Ok tesla fanboy aka pretender Zeekr fanboy. But even Zeekr also better than Tesla anyways
Me myself buy byd atto 3 , 3 years ago now i regret cuz have issue i see my neighbors who drove tesla model 3 no issue at all, no scam said need to do service what i learn tesla have no dealer thats why they more benefits, got their own superfast charger.. they have no need to force to do service because its a damn ev until let the car A.I tell you to do so.. they don’t have markup price like dealership, they no have salesman which is benefits
What makes you think byd is not good? Have you go and see or you just simply comment with plain jealousy
Jelous of what? Your comment sounds like israel sucker , comment without thinking and said tesla have salesman make me laughing so hard… You probably old man who spend time on this web and spam like by yourself
What kind issue is that? What makes you think design is bored? Seems like you are very jealous
Yeah Gen millineal fav toy cars
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Sounds like byd salesman
I think you have to check your brains and see what’s wrong with you
Sorry to said Zeekr more better and geely
Damn, so many negative comments confirmed coming from Tesla salesmen desperately posting at the same time and same day but different person…sigh…can tell will make people won’t buy tesla anyways but will buy other ev brands
Cause tesla salesmen (afraid and desperate to protect from falling tesla sales) probably already in shock or mental issues…that’s the reason why. But in the end, can see why more people will turn away from buying tesla but will buy more byd and proton eMas or Zeekr over Tesla
Tesla no salesman what a cap
Cause are acting like small little kids
How come you said tesla have salesman? You’re lie they have no dealership and no salesman stop lying bro
Imagine not learn something and claim tesla have salesman , what an idiot , who direct to customer company have salesman?
Larry such dumb person I’ve ever seen in online ” tesla salesman ” they are direct consumer not with dealer dumbo.. must be old people who blindly doin research and can’t even afford byd just straight up jealousy issue
I never seen gen z like me and whole ik love byd mostly they prefer tesla irl
Isn’t byd are gen millineal toys car?
Stfu irl i never heard people proud call byd terbaik
People like this comment mostly brave only in social media but scared like nerd irl.. i already found many nerd how they behave, end up only afford proton, perodua can’t even buy byd or tesla and compare which is better… They both different categories car, byd are just budget cheap car for other countries Malaysia expensive because of tax, while tesla consider as High tech ai car
Sybau YG
Im tired with brand bias people so i downvote
anything possible with tongkat
Well done Geely! Being able to sell its EV with lowest tariff…..hahahaha