Of the more than 2.2 million new passenger cars sold in the European Union in the first quarter of this year, 10 percent were equipped with an all-electric powertrain. The share of EVs has thus almost doubled compared to the first quarter of last year, according to data released by the European Automotive Industry Association (ACEA).
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In the first three months of this year, 2,245,976 new passenger cars were registered in the European Union, 12.3 percent less than in the first quarter of last year. Fully electric cars accounted for 10 percent of the registration figures, according to data from ACEA. In the first quarter of this year, 224,145 new EVs were registered, 53.4 percent more than in the same period last year. In Romania, sales of all-electric cars increased by no less than 408 percent to 2,108 units. In France with almost 43 percent and in Germany with 29.3 percent.
This means that the electric car has overtaken the plug-in hybrid, which accounts for a share of 8.9 percent. As a result, 5.3 percent fewer new plug-ins were registered in the EU in the first quarter of this year, although the share has increased slightly due to the sharp decline in sales of petrol and diesel cars. Conventional hybrid models are also gaining ground. Hybrid models have a share of 25.1 percent in the registration figures, which means that the share of hybrids has increased by four percentage points.
Cars with regular petrol and diesel engines still account for more than half of the new passenger cars registered in the European Union (52.8 percent). Cars with petrol engines accounted for 808,039 registrations in the EU in the first quarter of this year, representing a share of 36 percent. However, that share has fallen by almost 5 percentage points compared to the first quarter of last year. Diesels are also losing ground. In the first quarter of this year, 378,000 self-igniters were registered, 33.2 percent less than last year. The share of diesels in the registration figures fell by 5.3 percentage points to 16.8 percent. No less than 44.1 percent fewer self-igniters were registered in France. In Italy, Spain and Germany, declines of 39.2 percent, 30.8 percent and 20.2 percent were recorded successively.
The Netherlands
According to ACEA figures, 12,397 new electric cars were registered in the Netherlands in the first quarter of this year, 172 percent more than the 4,560 units registered in the first quarter of last year. license Plate were put. In addition, in the first three months of this year, 10,032 plug-ins were registered in our country, just under 31 percent more than in the same period last year. With 21,512 units, more conventional hybrids have also been registered in our country (+12.1 percent).
Entirely in line with expectations, the number of newly registered passenger cars with a petrol engine under the hood has also decreased in the Netherlands by 30 percent to 32,596 units. The decline is even greater for diesels. Only 1,434 new self-igniters were registered in the first quarter of this year in our country, 33.6 percent less than in the first quarter of 2021.
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