{"id":49323,"date":"2023-05-10T09:03:29","date_gmt":"2023-05-10T13:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=49323"},"modified":"2023-05-10T09:03:29","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T13:03:29","slug":"europe-plugin-car-sales-march2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=49323","title":{"rendered":"Europe: Plug-In Car Sales Accelerated In March 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The European passenger car market increased in March by about 26 percent year-over-year to more than 1.4 million new registrations, continuing its recovery.<\/p>\n<p>The plug-in electric car segment expands slightly faster, reaching the second-highest monthly result ever.<\/p>\n<p>According to <em>EV Volumes<\/em> data, shared by Jose Pontes, in March over 322,000 new plug-in electric cars were registered in Europe, which is 29 percent more than a year ago. That&#8217;s also 23 percent of the total volume.<\/p>\n<p>Even more interesting is that all-electric car sales increased by 44 percent year-over-year to roughly 224,000 new registrations. Plug-in hybrids barely increased, after two months in the red.<\/p>\n<p>New plug-in car registrations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>BEVs: *224,000 (up 44% year-over-year) and 16% share<\/li>\n<li>PHEVs: *98,000 (up 4% year-over-year) and 7% share<\/li>\n<li>Total: 322,465 (up 29% year-over-year) and 23% share<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>* estimated from the market share<\/p>\n<section contenteditable=\"false\" draggable=\"true\" data-widget=\"special_image\" data-align=\"center\">\n<div class=\"spi_wrapper\"><a class=\"lightzoom\" href=\"https:\/\/cdn.motor1.com\/images\/custom\/plug-in-electric-car-sales-in-europe-march-2023.png\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"custom-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.motor1.com\/images\/custom\/thumbnail\/plug-in-electric-car-sales-in-europe-march-2023.png\" alt=\"external_image\" width=\"909\" height=\"422\" loading=\"lazy\"\/> <\/a><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p>So far this year, more than 667,000 passenger plug-in electric cars were registered in Europe, which is about 18 percent more than a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>New plug-in car registrations year-to-date:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>BEVs: about *0.44 million and 14% share<\/li>\n<li>PHEVs: about *0.23 million and 7% share<\/li>\n<li>Total: 667,542 (up 18% year-over-year) and 21% share<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>* estimated from the market share<\/p>\n<p>For reference, <a href=\"https:\/\/insideevs.com\/news\/651295\/europe-plugin-car-sales-december2022\/\">in 2022, more than 2.6 million new passenger plug-in electric cars were registered in Europe (about 23 percent of the total volume)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One of the most important things in Europe is the amazing surge of the <a href=\"https:\/\/insideevs.com\/tesla\/model-y\/\">Tesla Model Y<\/a>, which noted a new monthly record of 46,697 registrations, once again becoming the best-selling plug-in car (third time this year) and best-selling car of any kind (almost doubling the result of the second best model &#8211; Opel Corsa).<\/p>\n<p>Clearly, local production at high volume, combined with price reductions, makes a difference, and it is spectacular to see an all-electric and American car at the top in Europe &#8211; both in March and in Q1. What will be the answer from the European automotive industry, which often neglected electric cars for so many years?<\/p>\n<p>The next most-popular plug-ins were the Tesla Model 3 (13,600 units, but down from almost 20,000 a year ago), Volvo XC40 (8,957 counting BEVs and PHEVs together), Volkswagen ID.3 (8,583) and the Chinese MG 4 (7,759) ahead of the Volkswagen ID.4 (7,719).<\/p>\n<p>Results last month:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Tesla Model Y &#8211; 46,697<\/li>\n<li>Tesla Model 3 &#8211; 13,600<\/li>\n<li>Volvo XC40 (BEV + PHEV) &#8211; 8,957<\/li>\n<li>Volkswagen ID.3 &#8211; 8,583<\/li>\n<li>MG 4 &#8211; 7,759<\/li>\n<li>Volkswagen ID.4 &#8211; 7,719<\/li>\n<li>Audi Q4 e-tron &#8211; 7,033<\/li>\n<li>Peugeot e-208 &#8211; 6,459<\/li>\n<li>Ford Kuga PHEV &#8211; 5,835<\/li>\n<li>Dacia Spring &#8211; 5,621<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>After the first three months, the Tesla Model Y has a huge advantage over other plug-in models, which does not require much of a comment.<\/p>\n<p>We are the most surprised that the Volkswagen ID.4 is not higher, but if we count it together with the Audi Q4 e-tron and Skoda Enyaq iV (three cousins), it&#8217;s actually not that bad &#8211; potentially close to 40,000 in Q1.<\/p>\n<p>Results year-to-date:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Tesla Model Y &#8211; 72,487<\/li>\n<li>Volvo XC40 (BEV + PHEV) &#8211; 20,975<\/li>\n<li>Tesla Model 3 &#8211; 19,797<\/li>\n<li>Volkswagen ID.3 &#8211; 17,366<\/li>\n<li>Volkswagen ID.4 &#8211; 16,199<\/li>\n<li>Audi Q4 e-tron &#8211; 15,410<\/li>\n<li>Dacia Spring &#8211; 14,299<\/li>\n<li>Fiat 500 electric &#8211; 13,712<\/li>\n<li>Peugeot e-208 &#8211; 13,314<\/li>\n<li>MG 4 &#8211; 12,783<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The recent Tesla&#8217;s surge, took allowed the brand to increase its market share to over 14 percent in the plug-in segment (and much more in the all-electric segment), as well as jump from fifth to second position among automotive groups, ahead of Stellantis.<\/p>\n<p>Top plug-in brands (share year-to-date):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tesla &#8211; 14.2%<\/li>\n<li>Volkswagen &#8211; 7.9%<\/li>\n<li>Mercedes-Benz &#8211; 7.6%<\/li>\n<li>BMW &#8211; 7.4%<\/li>\n<li>Volvo &#8211; 6.5%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Top plug-in automotive groups (share year-to-date):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Volkswagen Group &#8211; 19.1% share (Volkswagen brand at 7.9%)<\/li>\n<li>Tesla &#8211; 14.2%<\/li>\n<li>Stellantis &#8211; 13.7%<\/li>\n<li>BMW Group &#8211; 9.0% share (BMW brand at 7.4%)<\/li>\n<li>Geely\u2013Volvo &#8211; 8.9%<\/li>\n<li>Mercedes-Benz Group (Mercedes-Benz brand at 7.6%)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<section class=\"relatedContent-new\" contenteditable=\"false\" draggable=\"true\" data-widget=\"related-content\" data-widget-size=\"content\" data-params=\"%7B%22type_id%22%3A0%2C%22title_id%22%3A%22%22%2C%22items%22%3A%5B%7B%22article_edition_id%22%3A%22666344%22%2C%22title%22%3A%22China%3A%20Tesla%20EV%20Retails%20Sales%20And%20Exports%20Were%20Balanced%20In%20April%202023%22%2C%22alias%22%3A%22china-tesla-sales-export-april2023%22%2C%22section%22%3A%221%22%2C%22is_video%22%3A%220%22%2C%22images%22%3A%7B%22s5%22%3A%22https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.motor1.com%2Fimages%2Fmgl%2FQeWXzN%2Fs5%2Ftesla-model-y-performance-mic-in-china---november-2021.jpg%22%7D%7D%2C%7B%22article_edition_id%22%3A%22666300%22%2C%22title%22%3A%22Tesla%20Model%20Y%20Among%20Top%203%20In%202022%20Global%20Passenger%20Car%20Sales%3A%20Report%22%2C%22alias%22%3A%22tesla-model-y-top-three-global-passenger-car-sales%22%2C%22section%22%3A%221%22%2C%22is_video%22%3A%220%22%2C%22images%22%3A%7B%22s5%22%3A%22https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.motor1.com%2Fimages%2Fmgl%2FpbjyeW%2Fs5%2Ftesla-model-y.jpg%22%7D%7D%5D%7D\">   <\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European passenger car market increased in March by about 26 percent year-over-year to more than 1.4 million new registrations, continuing its recovery. The plug-in electric car segment expands slightly faster, reaching the second-highest monthly result ever. According to EV Volumes data, shared by Jose Pontes, in March over 322,000 new plug-in electric cars were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49324,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/49324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}