Hybrids outsold EVs in Malaysia in October 2026. According to the latest road transport department (JPJ) data, 5,023 hybrid vehicles were registered in the month, against 4,592 battery-electric vehicles (EVs). It is only the second time this year that hybrids have come out ahead, after May (5,103 against 5,038).
Hybrid registrations were down 7.8% from September’s 5,448, but EVs fell further, by 23.8%. Compared with October 2025 (2,804), hybrids are up 79.1%, and they made up 6.7% of all new registrations in the month, up from 3.4% a year earlier.
That takes the year-to-date (YTD) total to 45,204 hybrids, 82.7% more than in the first ten months of 2025 (24,748) and already 44.9% above last year’s full-year record of 31,190.
