Chinese BEV electric car market double Western Europe's – 1M units ahead after 10-months
While China's new BEV passenger car market approaches 2M, W-Europe at below 1M
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Matthias Schmidt
- Nov 11, 2021
- 5 min
Tesla becoming a volume OEM in Europe – New third-home, Germany, now largest European market
The 'new' incumbent? – The genie is out of the bottle and Tesla appears to be equipped with the vessel for the perfect storm
Matthias Schmidt
- Oct 8, 2021
- 2 min
Western European zero-emission passenger car registrations achieved a new record share in September
A number of reasons impacted the new record in September, namely; the boost from Tesla’s end of quarter volumes, achieving a monthly record
Matthias Schmidt
- Oct 5, 2021
- 3 min
Semiconductor crisis accelerates the EV transition
If the chip issue doesn't solve itself soon we could well see the premature demise of high volume, pile 'em high, sell 'em cheap ICE models
Matthias Schmidt
- Sep 23, 2021
- 3 min
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
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 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
- 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 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...
Matthias Schmidt
- Dec 2, 2020
- 2 min
The German pure electric car market has now edged past California's according to latest research
According to the latest October report published by Schmidt Automotive Research, the German pure electric car market (BEV) backed by...
Matthias Schmidt
- Dec 1, 2020
- 2 min
January-October West European electric passenger car market round-up
2020 W-European xEV market approaches 1 million, while major markets see plug-in PARC approach 0.5m Full report available here: Backed...
Matthias Schmidt
- Nov 17, 2020
- 2 min
European annual plug-in electric car volume to hit 1 million units by the end of November
Volkswagen eGolf charging Berlin
Matthias Schmidt
- Nov 3, 2020
- 2 min
Traditional OEMs crash Tesla's European party
Tesla's West European new vehicle registrations continued to stumble going into this year's third quarter according to Schmidt Automotive...
Matthias Schmidt
- Sep 3, 2020
- 1 min
German new passenger car CO2 emissions plummet
German new passenger car CO2 emissions plummet
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