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Battery electric vehicles (BEV) continued to lose market share in July as hybrid models registered an increase of 25.7% to over 270,000 units, data from the European auto association revealed.
BEV registrations declined by 10.8% to 102,705 units, with their total market share dropping to 12.1% from 13.5% a year earlier. Until the end of July, year to date registrations of fully electric models reached 815,399 units, achieving a 12.5% of market share.
As some EV makers announce plans to start building plug-in hybrid models (PHEV) — such as Avatr and Zeekr — registrations of PHEV vehicles dropped -14.1% last month. despite a 3.2% increase in Germany. In July,
The market share for plug-in hybrids stood at 6.8% in July, down from 7.9% a year ago, with 57,679 units sold.
Overall car registrations slightly increase 0.2% with Italy registering the highest growth (4.7%) among the top four automotive markets.
In a reaction to the tariffs on China-made EVs announced earlier this month, ACEA has recently reiterated the critical role of free and fair trade in enabling a globally competitive European automotive industry.
“What the European automotive sector needs above all else to be globally competitive is a robust industrial strategy for electromobility,” said Sigrid de Vries, Director of ACEA.
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