The Demand Index weekly
No Gulf market publishes per-model EV sales — not Kuwait, not Saudi, not the UAE. So instead of inventing numbers, we publish the other side of the market: demand, as we actually measure it on our own platform.
19
brands indexed
22.6%
leader: BYD
24 August 2026
week measured
| # | Name | Share of demand | Points | Move |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BYD19 articles | 22.6% | 226 | no change |
| 2 | Geely12 articles | 14.3% | 143 | 1up 1 |
| 3 | Fangchengbao7 articles | 8.3% | 83 | 5up 5 |
| 4 | NIO7 articles | 8.3% | 83 | 9up 9 |
| 5 | Xiaomi7 articles | 8.3% | 83 | 1up 1 |
| 6 | Chery6 articles | 7.1% | 71 | 4down 4 |
| 7 | XPeng4 articles | 4.8% | 48 | 8up 8 |
| 8 | BMW3 articles | 3.6% | 36 | new |
| 9 | Leapmotor3 articles | 3.6% | 36 | no change |
| 10 | Tesla3 articles | 3.6% | 36 | 6down 6 |
| 11 | Volkswagen3 articles | 3.6% | 36 | 3up 3 |
| 12 | GAC HYPTEC2 articles | 2.4% | 24 | new |
| 13 | Hyundai2 articles | 2.4% | 24 | 1down 1 |
| 14 | AITO1 article | 1.2% | 12 | 2up 2 |
| 15 | Hongqi1 article | 1.2% | 12 | new |
| 16 | IM Motors1 article | 1.2% | 12 | new |
| 17 | Lynk & Co1 article | 1.2% | 12 | 3up 3 |
| 18 | MG1 article | 1.2% | 12 | new |
| 19 | Volvo1 article | 1.2% | 12 | new |
The method — and what it is not
Not sales. This measures interest and intent, not registered vehicles. Any table claiming per-model Gulf sales is an undocumented estimate.
Gulf scope (models): Price watches 35% · views 30% · owners 20% · community posts 15%. A watch outweighs a view because it is a decision — someone left a contact to be told when the price drops.
Global scope (brands): Coverage volume in our news corpus, which reads international sources. Ranked per brand and not per model on purpose: an article is about the brand, and fanning it across its models would manufacture precision the source does not contain.
Shares, not raw counts: Each signal becomes its share of the week's total, is weighted, then scaled to 1,000 points — so the number stays comparable as traffic grows. A signal that hasn't reached a minimum event count is dropped for that week rather than amplifying noise.
Week of 24 August 2026: 84 measured signals.