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Lucid Motors registered two vehicles in the Netherlands in November, matching the October result, data from the Dutch association BOVAG showed on Monday. The luxury EV maker registered 42 vehicles in the Dutch market over the first 11 months of the year, up from 25 during the same period in 2023.
Battery electric vehicles (BEVs) made up 39.4% of the market share in the Netherlands last month, narrowly trailing hybrid models, which accounted for 39.6% of new registrations.
Shanghai-based Nio recorded eleven units in November, while Zeekr registered 103 vehicles, up from 98 in October. BYD, which delivered over 500,000 new energy vehicles globally during the month, registered 344 units in the Netherlands, an increase from 270 in October.
Tesla’s Model Y was the best-selling model in the country, with 1,867 units registered, followed by Volvo’s EX30, which saw 1,255 registrations. Tesla’s Model 3 ranked third with 1,004 units.
In Europe, Lucid currently operates in Switzerland, Germany, Norway, and the Netherlands, where the European headquarters are established.
In the first quarter of 2025, the company will introduce the Sapphire, the top-performance variant of its Lucid Air sedan, across its European markets, the company’s Managing Director of EU Alexander Lutz said last week.
Lutz also revealed that the SUV belonging to Lucid’s mid-size platform will be available in Europe “from 2027,” he said. “Until then, we focus on the Air and, next year, the Gravity.”
In the same interview, Lutz said sales in Europe of the Gravity SUV will start in mid-2025 with the first deliveries taking place in early 2026. “European sales for the Gravity will start in the summer of 2025” adding that the first customer deliveries will begin in early 2026.
In October, the EV maker opened a showroom in Hamburg, its fourth in Germany and eighth in Europe, following the Frankfurt showroom’s launch in September.
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