LONDON – Practically one in 5 automobiles offered within the European Union within the third quarter was an electrified mannequin as gross sales continued to soar whereas fossil-fuel automobiles slumped, in line with gross sales information launched on Friday by a commerce group.
The European Car Producers’ Affiliation, or ACEA, which represents main European automobile, truck, van and bus makers, mentioned that battery electrical and plug-in hybrid mannequin gross sales throughout the European Union made up slightly below 19% of all gross sales.
Battery electrical car gross sales jumped practically 57% to greater than 212,000 items, whereas plug-in hybrid fashions rose practically 43% to greater than 197,000 items.
This can be a slower tempo of progress than in 2020 when gross sales virtually trebled from a low base.
But it surely compares with a 35% drop in gross sales for petrol automobiles – which nonetheless are the most important sellers and account for practically 40% of general gross sales – and a greater than 50% drop for diesel automobiles through the quarter.
Lower than a decade in the past, diesel automobiles made up greater than 50% of sale within the EU, however accounted for beneath 18% of all automobiles offered within the third quarter.
In addition to having to fulfill stringent new EU carbon emissions targets, automobile makers and customers have benefited from authorities subsidies for electrical automobiles.
The European Fee has additionally proposed an efficient ban on fossil-fuel automobiles from 2035, aiming to hurry up the change to zero-emission electrical automobiles as a part of a broad bundle of measures to fight international warming.
(Reporting by Nick Carey; Modifying by Sandra Maler)
