Almost every fourth new car in Western Europe during August was a plug-in electric car
With pure electric models outnumbering plug-in hybrids for just the second month this year it was partially thanks to early Tesla arrivals
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Matthias Schmidt
- Aug 24, 2021
- 3 min
European Electric Car Report July 2021 highlights
Key points: SUV now 50% share of BEV market Italian new plug-in volumes now larger than Norway's UK plug-in Parc moves ahead of Norway,...
Matthias Schmidt
- Jul 27, 2021
- 3 min
European Electric Car Report June 2021 highlights
Key points: More Chinese BEVs delivered in June than Japanese BEVs in Europe BEV car market remains on course to achieve >1m new units...
Matthias Schmidt
- Jul 9, 2021
- 4 min
One million new electric plug-in cars joined European roads during 2021's first-half
Consisting of BEVs – fully electric passenger cars – and PHEVs – plug-in hybrids – externally rechargeable new passenger car registrations i
Matthias Schmidt
- Jun 30, 2021
- 3 min
The route to EU CO2 compliance continues to heavily rely on ICEs... May snapshot
News in brief: New plug-in hybrid volumes remained ahead of pure-EVs during every month this year VW Group top – VW BEVs accounted for...
Matthias Schmidt
- Jun 29, 2021
- 3 min
FUTURE PRODUCT... Little Miss Sunshine, The sun-powered car due in 2023
While Tesla has its fan community, committed to brand, stock and social media, an EV start-up from the same city as BMW is powering-up...
Matthias Schmidt
- Jun 9, 2021
- 3 min
West European new electric car market outpaces pre-pandemic full-year 2019 level after just 5-months
After just 5-months this year the number of new pure-electric passenger cars entering West European roads outpaced pre-pandemic full-year...
Matthias Schmidt
- Jun 2, 2021
- 2 min
SUV/Crossover heavy-rollers begin to dominate the European electric car market – Exclusive research
SUV/Crossovers accounted for over 40 per cent mix of all new pure electric cars entering West European roads in April, while accounting...
Matthias Schmidt
- Jun 1, 2021
- 3 min
April 2021 West European Electric Car Market – Report
SUV/Crossovers increasingly dominating Europe's electric car market The German car industry is slowly but surely releasing the intended...
Matthias Schmidt
- May 18, 2021
- 1 min
Comment: Lamborghini's EV switch – Not so much electric exotica, but more Brussels bureaucracy
Lamborghini is the latest in a host of either small-volume, or niche passenger car manufacturers announcing either a total leap (Jaguar,...
Matthias Schmidt
- May 17, 2021
- 2 min
Every fifth car manufactured in Germany is now an EV
With Germany being the powerhouse of the European motor industry, manufacturing every third car in the region, or twice the volume of the...
Matthias Schmidt
- Apr 30, 2021
- 3 min
Q1 2021 West European Electric Car Market – Report
OEMs increasingly relying on generous Germans to push EVs Thanks to both generous plug-in purchase incentives in Germany – driving the...
Matthias Schmidt
- Apr 9, 2021
- 2 min
March/Q1 2021 West European Electric Car Market – PHEVs remain the elephant in the room
Despite failing to achieve a second consecutive over half a million new (PHEV/BEV) plug-in electric car registrations in a single...
Matthias Schmidt
- Mar 17, 2021
- 3 min
February 2021 West European Electric Car Market – Report
Wind of Change – A growing number of OEMs appear content with likely stricter EU CO2 fleet targets February marked a perhaps historical...
Matthias Schmidt
- Mar 1, 2021
- 2 min
January 2021 Europe electric car market round-up
While China has just begun the year of the Ox, judging from January numbers, the European car market may well be celebrating the year of...
Matthias Schmidt
- Feb 19, 2021
- 2 min
PHEVs dominated the European electric car market in the opening month of 2021
Where 2020 was the year of the BEV, accounting for more than half of all the new plug-in passenger car registrations last year,...
Matthias Schmidt
- Jan 27, 2021
- 2 min
Legislation works – European electric car market – Full-year 2020 round-up
As manufacturers scrambled to meet EU (and Swiss) CO2 compliance levels with a last-minute registrations splash-and-dash in December,...
Matthias Schmidt
- Jan 18, 2021
- 1 min
European rechargeable electric car market now almost equal with China – EXCLUSIVE
According to Schmidt Automotive Research, the West European passenger car market finished 2020 under 35,000 units behind the Chinese...
Matthias Schmidt
- Jan 8, 2021
- 3 min
Plug-ins accounted for every fourth new car entering West European roads in December – EXCLUSIVE
A rush to meet new European Union CO2 fleet average emissions targets, accompanied by a number of end of year key tax changes, as well as...
Matthias Schmidt
- Dec 17, 2020
- 3 min
Every eleventh new car registered in Western Europe was a zero emission vehicle in November
During November a new milestone was achieved across the West European passenger car market: every eleventh new model that entered the 18...
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