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European BEV Registrations Drop 11% in July, PHEVs Decline 14%

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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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Cláudio Afonso is the Founder and Editor of EV, an independent electric vehicle news publication owned by CARBA Investments, the company he founded in early 2021. Between 2022 and 2024 he worked in European corporate communications at Nio, and he returned to lead EV in April 2024. He is based in Portugal.