Every fifth new car registered across Western Europe is now a pure electric BEV model
- Matthias Schmidt
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That applies to both on a 12-month trailing basis and also during the opening 10 months of 2025.
The regional growth rate continued at a high pace, increasing by a quarter (25%) YTD y/y while the total market across all fuels grew by just 1% y/y.
October marked the fourth consecutive month of a year-on-year growth rate above 20% this year.
The closing months of the year are likely to witness an accelerated pick-up with key incentives being reintroduced to major markets such as France, the UK, Italy and possibly Germany, while fiscal advantages for BEVs are set to weaken in certain markets, resulting in an expected pull-forward into Q4 2025.
Weak price discipline by OEMs in the early part of the year to drive volume growth, helping meet tightened CO2 fleet emission targets from 2025, reducing by 15% over 2021-2024 levels to 93.6g/km, has been one of the most significant drivers.
Consequently, healthy order books are likely to be leveraged in the final two months to dramatically reduce CO2 averages despite the three-year average between 2025-2027 being introduced.
Crucially, the European Commission is set to announce the first proposals from the Automotive Dialogue during the second week of December.
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Source: Schmidt Automotive Research
*Western Europe 18 Markets: EU Member States prior to the 2004 enlargement plus EFTA markets Norway, Switzerland, Iceland, plus UK
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