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.
12
brands indexed
28.1%
leader: BYD
28 September 2026
week measured
| # | Name | Share of demand | Points | Move |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BYD9 articles | 28.1% | 281 | 3up 3 |
| 2 | Tesla6 articles | 18.8% | 188 | 1down 1 |
| 3 | Volkswagen5 articles | 15.6% | 156 | 8up 8 |
| 4 | BMW2 articles | 6.3% | 63 | new |
| 5 | Fangchengbao2 articles | 6.3% | 63 | new |
| 6 | Geely2 articles | 6.3% | 63 | 4down 4 |
| 7 | AITO1 article | 3.1% | 31 | no change |
| 8 | Changan1 article | 3.1% | 31 | new |
| 9 | Li Auto1 article | 3.1% | 31 | 1up 1 |
| 10 | NIO1 article | 3.1% | 31 | 5up 5 |
| 11 | Renault1 article | 3.1% | 31 | new |
| 12 | XPeng1 article | 3.1% | 31 | 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 28 September 2026: 32 measured signals.