Credit to Author: Dr. Maximilian Holland| Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2023 16:42:48 +0000
May saw France’s plugins take over 24% market share, up from 20.9% year on year, with new Stellantis BEVs arriving. Full electrics grew from 12.0% to 15.6% share, while plugin hybrids slightly lost share. Overall auto volume was 145,536 units, up some 15% YoY, though still down on pre-2020 norms. The bestselling BEV in May […]
Credit to Author: Carlo Ombello| Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2023 06:53:44 +0000
Originally published on opportunity:energy. Italy’s road to electric mobility has been featuring substantial setbacks in recent months, and the start of 2023 was no different. With the rest of Europe firmly progressing in its upward trajectory, the land of the most famous supercars seems yet undecided as to its future. January blues This year began […]
Credit to Author: Dr. Maximilian Holland| Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2023 10:55:22 +0000
France saw record high plugin electric vehicle share in March, at 25.4%, up from 21.4% year on year. BEVs alone took 16.8% share, a new record. Overall auto volumes were 182,712 units, up some 24% year on year, though still well off the pre-2020 seasonal average (~230,000 units). The Tesla Model Y was the best […]
Credit to Author: Carlo Ombello| Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2023 03:10:22 +0000
Originally published on opportunity:energy. 2022 was a year of defeat for electric mobility in Italy. Europe’s fourth largest market struggled to keep up with the rest of Europe’s major auto markets. While EVs made important gains in market share throughout the continent, Italian sales of plug-in vehicles suffered an unanticipated setback. It could have been […]
Credit to Author: Dr. Maximilian Holland| Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2023 08:37:29 +0000
France’s auto market saw plugin electric vehicles (EVs) take 22.3% share of new sales in January, up from 17.6% year on year. Full electrics saw stronger growth than plugin hybrids. Overall auto volumes were 111,939 units, some 9% higher YoY, but still well below pre-2020 seasonal norms. January’s best selling full electric was the Dacia […]
Credit to Author: Carlo Ombello| Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2023 14:27:58 +0000
Originally published on opportunity:energy. Italy’s EV market ended a weak 2022 with a December in line with the unimpressive figures posted in previous months. While the overall car market showed good signs of recovery, plugins yet again stalled in what is a reverse trend not followed by any other major European nation. Official statistics from […]
Credit to Author: Maarten Vinkhuyzen| Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2022 03:56:59 +0000
First, a comment for our American readers. What many American readers don’t realize when reading reviews by Europeans about European fully electric cars is the big difference between European ICE vehicles and American ICE vehicles. In Europe, most drivers, especially those from smaller cars, will only have experience with manual transmissions. When switching from manual […]
Credit to Author: Carlo Ombello| Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2022 22:16:59 +0000
Originally published on opportunity:energy. It’s been a bad start of the year for the Italian car market, as 2022 inherited crises that had been brewing since the covid pandemic. With an ongoing chip (and broader materials) shortage, policy uncertainties, inflation spiking, and a war in Europe, among other things, car sales crashed and electrified options […]
Credit to Author: José Pontes| Date: Sat, 14 May 2022 05:38:02 +0000
Plugins continue to rise in France, with last month’s plugin vehicle registrations ending at 22,926 units, divided between 12,692 BEVs (or 12% share of the overall auto market) and 10,234 PHEVs (9% share of the auto market). The former jumped 33% year over year (YoY) while the latter was actually down by 8%. With the […]
Credit to Author: Carlo Ombello| Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2022 09:00:48 +0000
Originally published on opportunity:energy. The race of Italy’s electric car market shows signs of fatigue, as 2022 started off with mixed results. While other European countries continued boasting exponential rises in January consistent with the exuberance of year-end, the same was not completely true in the continent’s fourth largest car market. UNRAE statistics for the […]