top of page
Logo Schmidt Automotive Research
EUROPEAN  AUTOMOTIVE  MARKET  INTELLIGENCE    >>
European Chinese OEM passenger car study 2024 Q2
Delivering direction behind Europe's passenger car market, providing key strategic insights
Volkswagen ID.4 disguise Berlin showroom VW Forum
Electric car charging bay Austria

EUROPEAN AUTOMOTIVE MARKET INTELLIGENCE
 

RESEARCH INSIGHTS

CONTACT
US

+49 4205 591 5966

EMAIL

MAILING LIST

 DATA-DRIVEN EUROPEAN AUTOMOTIVE MARKET INTELLIGENCE  
 OFFERING PLANNING SECURITY IN STRATEGIC DECISION-MAKING 

EXCLUSIVE DATA

Market size by region, OEM, sector, models etc.

FORECAST

Mid/long-term  forecasting  to 2030 

MG-ZS-EV-front-shot-static_edited_edited.png

EXPERT ANALYSIS

Providing key and trusted guidance behind the data. 
 Online consultation  poss
ible 

  DATA OF THE MONTH > 

-53.9%
Chinese-brand fully electric BEV passenger car new registrations halved across Western Europe during August 2024 compared to the same month last year. 
SOURCE: SAR

Unravelling the heterogeneous nature of the European plug-in electric passenger car market, focussing on the 18 market West European region that accounts for over 95 per cent of total wider region's BEV deliveries. Providing strategic guidance, insights and the market's future trajectory – reinforced by exclusively collated high-quality current and historic monthly data.

Two decades of experience delivering key and incisive trends and developments across the European light-vehicle market to the industry and its stakeholders, including FTSE 100 companies.

 SERVICES WE OFFER 

"We offer trusted Automotive Intelligence... not Artificial Intelligence"

klXxk-byd-tops-chinese-bev-deliveries-across-w-europe-in-august.png

BYD delivered the most Chinese brand BEV pure electric passenger cars across Western Europe in August, surpassing SAIC's MG brand for the first time, according to Schmidt Automotive Research's monthly Electric Car Study.

 more >

Volkswagen on ice

NOTES VW Crisis
Clouds gather over Wolfsburg
September 2024

 

Volkswagen brand's current European annual run-rate around is currently running at just under 0.5 mn units below pre-Covid levels or the equivalent of two production sites.
more >

​​

Ford Explorer production Cologne Germany

New German plug-in car production record 
German plug-in car production hits new record mix in August. Almost 40% of new cars manufactured are now plug-ins

October 2024        

According to our monthly market intelligence report, The European Electric Car Study, almost four in ten new passenger cars manufactured in Germany during August were either a pure electric BEV or a PHEV, using VDA data.

 more >​​

European 12-month trailing new BEV registrations trend selected markets Europe to H1 2024

EDITORIAL PREVIEW
Special one-off effects prevented deeper losses across the European electric car market in the opening half of 2024. Deep losses are now expected in July/August
August 2024

2024 is turning into a year of consolidated stability, as our long-term forecast consistently identified, returning to our first edition, published in 2019. 


more >

Infographic CHinese OEM share of the European new electric car market

Chinese OEM BEV market share tumbles
The rise and fall of Chinese brands across Europe

October 2024

Chinese new passenger car brands saw their share of the West European new BEV passenger car market fall to just 8.3% of the total regional BEV market during August, according to the latest research from the European Electric Car Study, published by Schmidt Automotive Research each month. more > 

BYD Explorer One 2 China to Europe

CHINA/EU TARIFFS
Are Chinese OEMs' offering bargaining chips to get tariffs off the table before the European Council vote next month?

June 2024

A number of Chinese passenger car manufacturers have put in a last-minute request with the European Commission (EC) to limit the heavy impact of additional tariffs.

 more >

SERVICES

 GET EXCLUSIVE MARKET INSIGHTS   AHEAD OF YOUR COMPETITION 

Briefings directly into your inbox. 

NEWS
ABOUT ME

 ABOUT US 

UK-established and Germany-based European automotive industry market consultancy and publisher. Delivering exclusive incisive trends and developments in the global automotive industry, to the industry and stakeholders, with two decades worth of experience.

Offering key strategic insights, and market intelligence, focussing on the heterogeneous nature of the West European electric car market, including analysis of exclusively collated market data with in-depth guidance,
providing a strategic advantage.

Founder, Matthias Schmidt, previously served as the Chief European Analyst, at Automotive Industry Data Ltd based in the UK, with a demographic including executives, product planners and policymakers among others. 

Schmidt Automotive Research regularly features in the world's key business publications. See below for some recent examples:

FT logo black and white
New York Times logo
Politico logo
The Economist logo
Les Echos logo
Der Spiegel logo
Wall Street Journal logo
Handelsblatt logo
Bloomberg logo
Automotive News Europe logo
Nikkei logo black and white
Manager Magazin logo

 SELECTION OF CLIENTS 

mail@schmidtmatthias.de | +49 4205 / 591 5966  | VAT No: DE324010859

CONTACT
bottom of page