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Electric vehicle sales surge in UK, petrol engines slump and drop 10%

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Electric vehicle registrations in the United Kingdom have exploded, increasing over 88% in March 2021 compared to the same month in 2020. in March 2021 compared to March 2020, and the market share has sunk from 17.6% European-based brands like Volkswagen , BMW , Audi, and Mercedes-Benz led the overall sales figures.

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Norway December 2020

EV Sales

Looking at the fuels breakdown, if plugins were up in December, the rest is falling quickly: HEVs had just 6% share of the market, petrol vehicles were down to just 3% share (it had 15% a year ago), while diesel had only 5%, while in the same month last year, the black fuel had 22% share.At Pl Model Sales 1 Tesla Model 3 4.232 2 VW ID.3

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France December 2020

EV Sales

If the overall automotive market had a horrible 2020 (-26% YoY), with the 1.7 These disruptive numbers are also reflecting on the plugin share, as last month it reached a record 19% (11% BEV), pulling the final 2020 share to 11% (6,7% BEV), a far cry from the 3% of 2019. A future star lands in a record market (19% share!)

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Germany December 2020

EV Sales

In a completely disrupted market, while diesel (-31% YoY) and petrol (-20%) were down in December, all electrified categories were shooting up, with HEVs up 133% YoY, while PHEVs jumped six-fold(!), 4, e-Up) in the December Top 10, with 4 other belonging to the Group (Seat Leon, Audi Q5 and A3, and the not-yet-dead VW e-Golf) in the Top 20!

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Premium EV bargain hunting? 2024’s best cut-price prestige electric buys

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For reference, the cheapest ex-demo petrol-powered 2022 BMW 740i is $179,000 plus on-roads. 2020 Porsche Taycan Turbo S – $260,000 (-$78,500) The Porsche Taycan Turbo S flagship – you can snare a used one for less than a new entry-level 911. How has Merc’s fabled petrol S-Class fared over the same time?

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Tesla continues to dominate EV sales in the UK

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Overall auto volume was 74,441 units, up some 26% YoY, though still down from the ~81.000 unit seasonal norm, pre-2020. The YoY fall in share of plugins reflects the temporary bounce back of petrol-powertrain volumes YoY (from 23,952 to 32.331 units). Audi came in 2nd spot, likely mostly thanks to the Q4 e-tron. year on year.

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Electric car sales remain low in the UK

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Overall auto volume was 131,994 units, up some 15% YoY, but still 21% below pre-2020 seasonal norms. Petrols were flat YoY in January, but are also on a slide over the long term. They were closely followed by group sibling brand, Audi, with BMW taking the third position. share of new sales in January, flat from 20.4%

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