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0.48 million
new passenger cars shipped from China entered the West European passenger car market during the opening

10-months of 2023, including Western brands


Source: Schmidt Automotive

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.

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Volvo EX30 to add to the next 10 million

EXCLUSIVE 10 million plug-ins in W-Europe
Over 10 million new plug-in passenger cars have now entered West European roads
November 2023

Between 2012 and October 2023, over 10 million plug-in passenger cars entered the West European passenger car market, according to Schmidt Automotive Research's monthly European Electric Car Study... more >

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EXCLUSIVE FRANCE/CHINA 

Renault "likely" to lose domestic state subsidies for Chinese-made Dacia Spring on rule shake-up
October 2023

According to Renault Group's CFO, Thierry Piétont, Dacia is "likely" to lose its French state-backed purchase subsidy with a points-based rule change – which will include logistics routes – coming into effect that will target mainly models that are manufactured in China... more >

European 12-month trailing BEV new car sales trend

EXCLUSIVE October 2023 EV market 
W-European electric car market unexpectedly kept on the boil in October

November 2023

Western Europe's new BEV pure electric passenger car market, slightly unexpectedly, was kept on the boil into October with just two markets seeing volumes fall over the same period last year.

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Chinese penetration of the European new car market

EXCLUSIVE Chinese OEM Euro progress
Sweden, Norway and the UK witnessed the highest penetration of new Chinese cars 

October 2023

While Sino-brands saw just under 3% of the West European new passenger car market accounted for by their models (0.25 million units) during the opening three quarters of 2023, according to Schmidt Automotive Research, Sweden recorded twice that rate...  more >
 

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EXCLUSIVE  Made in China, sold in Europe

Over 0.5 million Chinese-made cars are set to enter the W-European new passenger car market in 2023
October 2023        

400,000 Chinese-made new passenger cars found their way onto West European roads during the opening 9-months of 2023, according to Schmidt Automotive research... more >

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EXCLUSIVE CHINA/EUROPE

Every fifth new BEV in W-Europe this year was manufactured in China
September 2023

Over 100,000 new Chinese-brand pure electric cars (BEVs) entered West European roads during the opening two-thirds of this year, according to the August edition of the European Electric Car Study published by Schmidt Automotive research, however if non-Chinese BEV brand models... more >

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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,
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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. 

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