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NL1817 | Published - 21 September 2018 Click image to enlarge page 1 as printable PDF version |
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EUROPE
HYBRID SALES TREND |
AID DATA
In Europe Hyundai-Kia has joined Toyota-Lexus’s lone HEV flight path
It’s not imagination. AID compiled data reveals that Britain’s already crowded urban and rural roads now appear packed more than ever with latest design
SUV-Crossovers. So much so in fact that during this year’s first half a forever growing avalanche of trendy
SUV-Crossovers alone was responsible for almost four-in-ten of the new cars hitting UK roads for the first time. This on-going rate of breakneck sales expansion crowned
SUV-Crossovers as the UK’s way and ahead biggest car sector, according to AID compiled car sales data
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UK
CAR SALES |
AID DATA
Record four-in-ten UK new car buyers now opt for SUV-Crossovers
It’s not imagination. AID compiled data reveals that Britain’s already crowded urban and rural roads now appear packed more than ever with latest design
SUV-Crossovers. So much so in fact that during this year’s first half a forever growing avalanche of trendy
SUV-Crossovers alone was responsible for almost four-in-ten of the new cars hitting UK roads for the first time. This on-going rate of breakneck sales expansion crowned
SUV-Crossovers as the UK’s way and ahead biggest car sector, according to AID compiled car sales data
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EDITORIAL EU’s 2020/21 target of 95g/km achievable "The much-used analogy of King Canute vainly holding back the tide is now echoed loud and clear in European political circles. The belief is that laws, come what may, are made to be obeyed. Given a set time frame for full compliance, that’s easy with some, difficult with others and for some next to impossible. Given the real world we live in today, allied to a fast-shrinking diesel car market, there is one mandatory obligation in Europe’s large automotive market that for some has all the hallmarks of Mission Impossible" Peter Schmidt | Editor |
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EUROPE
HYBRID SALES TREND |
AID DATA
Notable hybrid inroads in Europe, buoyed in no small measure by incentives
For Europe’s green movement, which still believed not so long ago that comparatively simple
Prius-type petrol-electric hybrids (HEVs) could save our planet from overheating, there is good news and bad news
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UK
CAR SALES |
AID DATA
Volkswagen takes UK’s August car sales crown, Ford slips to new all-time low
Anyone familiar with the UK car market will expect Ford to be the undisputed market leader. Moreover, the norm, dating back to time immemorial Ford’s most popular models continue to dominate the UK’s list of best-sellers, right? Wrong. This August marks the third consecutive month that Ford was outsold by the Volkswagen brand
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EUROPE
CAR
SALES |
AID DATA
August new car sales in Western Europe didn’t just rise but soar
AID compiled figures reveal that new car sales this August went through the roof. That’s the initial cheery message from last month’s car sales results from the vast majority of West European car markets. The latest pole-vault jump this August brings the region’s cumulative car sales gain at the 8-months stage to around 5 per cent
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NL1816 | Published - 31 August 2018 Click image to enlarge page 1 as printable PDF version |
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DIESEL
SALES | EUROPE
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AID DATA
As bad as it gets for Europe’s diesel car market?
Latest data, compiled by AID every month, suggests that West Europe’s badly hammered diesel car market, while still weak, is no longer deteriorating at the speed seen during last year
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ELECTRIC CAR
BEV
SALES | W-EUROPE
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AID DATA
July scorcher for West Europe’s summer temperatures and BEV sales
Sweltering temperatures in much of July were echoed to an extent by hot buying intensity from some of the region’s electric car buyers. AID’s exclusive own figures show that West Europe’s July market for pure electric cars
(BEVs) grew by almost 40 per cent. That’s partly thanks to strong respective sales gains of 35.8 per cent and 25.6 per cent in both Germany and Norway, now two of West Europe’s leading BEV markets. But that’s not all
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EDITORIAL WLTP | Sea change ahead "At long last, the change-over to a more realistic value for the fuel-consumption of new cars is not coming a moment too soon. Starting tomorrow, September 1 2018, all new cars sold in EU Europe must come with an official fuel-economy value measured under the new WLTP (Worldwide Harmonized Light Vehicle Test Procedure) method. That’s a great victory for common sense. The previously provided fuel-economy value, measured under the ancient NEDC (New European Driving Cycle) scheme, was not worth the paper it was written on" Peter Schmidt | Editor |
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NL1815 | Published - 17 August 2018 Click image to enlarge page 1 as printable PDF version |
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JAPAN
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H1
CAR MARKET In Japan the sales share of diesels is rising
Toyota remains the most successful carmaker. Now, that’s not a recent development. Despite bright new upstarts in the same field, such as Korea’s highly respected
Hyundai-Kia, in retrospect Toyota has held this coveted pedestal autoindustry position for
decades
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EDITORIAL Toyota set to clear EU’s 2020/21 CO2 hurdle without BEVs "Toyota remains the most successful carmaker. Now, that’s not a recent development. Despite bright new upstarts in the same field, such as Korea’s highly respected Hyundai-Kia, in retrospect Toyota has held this coveted pedestal autoindustry position for decades" Peter Schmidt | Editor | Japan world’s biggest market for home-grown petrol-electric hybrids | Sweden’s July steep vehicle tax hike sparks last minute June car sales frenzy |
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JAPAN
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H1
CAR MARKET Japan world’s biggest market for home-grown petrol-electric hybrids
AID investigates this year’s Japanese car sales trends and finds that Toyota’s home market still stands out as the world’s way and ahead biggest market for petrol-electric hybrid
(HEVs) cars. Put into perspective, this first half Japan’s HEV market was more than three-times the size of its direct US HEV equivalent, which like Japan and Europe remains dominated by Toyota Group products
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NL1814 | Published - 03 August 2018 Click image to enlarge page 1 as printable PDF version |
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DIESEL
SALES | EUROPE
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AID DATA Diesel cars out of favour, but have we seen the worst of the plunge?
That is the overriding question on the minds of autoindustry strategists after digesting the very latest statistical news on the current state of West Europe’s previously market-dominating diesel car June’s diesel car market in Western Europe, providing yet another revealing piece in the jigsaw, suggests that for the time being at least, the previously plummeting sales share of diesels now appears to have settled down to a more moderate rate of decline.
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EDITORIAL Tesla says Model 3 leads US ‘Mid-Sized-Premium Sedans’ in July "Today, perhaps more than ever, we live in a world of fake news. Who’s to know whether car A compared to car B is built with both superior quality parts and quality labour and in consequence is notably more fault free and reliable? Peter Schmidt | Editor | Tesla Q2 volumes almost equal to Jaguar | Sweden’s July steep vehicle tax hike sparks last minute June car sales frenzy |
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NL1813 | Published - 20 July 2018 Click image to enlarge page 1 as printable PDF version |
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WESTERN
EUROPE | CAR
SALES
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VW Weren’t Volkswagen’s sales supposed to fall?
At a time when West Europe’s still rosy-looking car market is entering a markedly cooler second half, AID reports exclusively on the winners and losers this first half
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EDITORIAL Bonus-malus "There are no two ways about it. Left to the free market BEVs are going nowhere fast until prices are halved, real world driving range climbs to say 400 plus kilometres and the crucial recharging system is a great deal more dense than today. One further element needed for success is legislation to help the course without an undue burden on the public purse. So much for the theory" Peter Schmidt | Editor | Electric LCV called StreetScooter | Germany’s average April CO2 emissions from cars rise to 130.4g/km |
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ELECTRIC CAR
SALES | GLOBAL
Q2
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TESLA Tesla Q2 volume almost equal to Jaguar
Tesla, the world’s most closely followed manufacturer of premium–priced electric cars
(BEVs) is already snapping at the heels of UK premium carmaker Jaguar. The question now is, as AID’s segment observers have put it most topically, “based on Tesla’s latest sales surge it is not if Tesla will outsell Jaguar on the global prestige sector sales scene, but how soon”
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FUEL
MIX | GERMANY Petrol powered cars make further sharp inroads at expense of sinking diesels
For AID’s perplexed market observers today’s question is not so much whether Germany’s previously long-flourishing domestic market for cutting-edge diesel cars will fade into obscurity, but how soon.
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H1
CAR SALES | WESTERN
EUROPE June Car Market Burst of hot June sunshine, but cooler car sales on horizon
For the vast majority of new car markets in Western Europe, June’s new car sales mirrored June’s high summer temperatures accompanied by near uninterrupted wall to wall sunshine. With less than a handful of yet undeclared regional markets, including the major UK market, June’s new car sales in Western Europe comfortably exceeded last year’s turnout. For all of Western Europe AID estimates a 4.5 per cent rise in June sales to a provisional 1.48m sales.
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TAX
CHANGE | SWEDEN Sweden’s July steep vehicle tax hike sparks last minute June car sales frenzy
June new car sales in Sweden went through the roof. Apart from a massive 72.9 per cent pole-vault jump in new car sales to 66,244 units June also enters Sweden’s auto-industry record books as the
highest-ever sales month for new cars. Significant increases in annual vehicle taxes, particularly for vehicles with high CO2 emission came into effect July 1 this year. These tax hikes for higher polluting cars in particular were at the root of June’s car sales bonanza
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NL1812 | Published - 29 June 2018 Click image to enlarge page 1 as printable PDF version |
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ELECTRIC CAR
PHEV
SALES | UK
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AID DATA UK today’s biggest European market for PHEVs
It’s almost as if this is one of the great trade secrets waiting to be discovered, actual UK sales of PHEVs by manufacturer and model are not divulged to the public at large or the media. In the UK the same goes for sales of electric cars
(BEVs)
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LIGHT
VEHICLE SALES | RUSSIA World Cup puts strong kick into Russia’s new car spending
For those patiently waiting for the inevitable rebound from Russia’s previously slump-struck car market, car sales data for the five months to May brings great comfort. Little doubt, the same goes to Russia’s political leadership. That’s because this summer Russia plays host to this year’s closely watched football world cup. Russia’s previously underrated football team, contrary to expectation, is already leading its group after two straight wins in a row
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EDITORIAL Volkswagen Ford strategic van alliance "Many of today’s automakers will probably readily admit, albeit off the record, that the inevitable transformation from today’s market dominating petrol and diesel powered cars to so-called New Energy Vehicles will probably be a great deal slower than environmentalists would want. And yet, there is one development carmakers’ seem to agree on. In most of Europe’s already heavily polluted inner cities, thanks to already sky-high NOx and particle emissions, the future belongs to electric transport" Peter Schmidt | Editor | Electric LCV called StreetScooter | Germany’s average April CO2 emissions from cars rise to 130.4g/km |
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SALES | EUROPE
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AID DATA Looking better, but genuine BEV take-off remains distant promise
On the face of it, it looks as if West Europe’s market for electric cars
(BEVs) may be about to take off, AID’s exclusive May figures reveal. Despite a host of positive and promising signs of growth during this year’s first half, accompanied for good measure by some new all-time records for this still tiny sector, already there are signs that this year’s lively first-half may give way to a somewhat cooler spell during this year’s second half and the fourth quarter in particular
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NL1811 | Published - 15 June 2018 Click image to enlarge page 1 as printable PDF version |
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TECH | WORLD Imminent death of combustion engine greatly exaggerated
Of late, widely covered media reports about the inevitable death of the internal combustion engine, replaced en-masse by deep-green zero-emission electric cars and light vans as early as 2025, appear greatly exaggerated
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EDITORIAL Truckload of VW money buys jail free card "By any measure, the Volkswagen car brand continues to attract a great deal of media attention – but more often than not the news is not good. It just doesn’t stop" Peter Schmidt | Editor | Germany’s average April CO2 emissions from cars rise to 130.4g/km | VW’s e-Golf was January’s top-selling electric car in W-Europe |
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ELECTRIC CAR
SALES | EUROPE
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AID DATA Refreshed Nissan LEAF takes European BEV sales crown
With 11,441 units (+ 48%), Nissan’s refreshed LEAF ranks as the best-selling electric car
(BEV) in Western Europe by the end of April. With 3,309 sold units this April alone, the newly revitalised LEAF also took top honours in West Europe’s April BEV market
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CAR
SALES | WESTERN
EUROPE Western Europe’s car sales unchanged in May
Last month's new car sales in Western Europe, following three months of growth in the past four months, remained virtually unchanged, AID compiled figures show. This has pegged new registrations at 6.5m for the first 5 months of the year – still 1.5 per cent up on the same period of 2017
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CO2 | FRANCE Ticking French CO2 time bomb The day that many auto industry moguls have been secretly dreading for years is fast approaching. After positive initial progress, of late frantic industry attempts to cut fleet average
CO2 emissions from cars in the EU to 95g/km by 2021 appear to have screeched to a sudden halt
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NL1810 | Published - 01 June 2018 Click image to enlarge page 1 as printable PDF version |
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CAR
SALES | TURKEY Resilience of Turkey’s car market defies expectations
At least until now, the Turkish car market made a habit of defying even the most pessimistic predictions. That’s doubly underlined by a far milder and only short-lived downturn in fateful 2017 and three successive monthly car sales gains in this year’s four months to April. Already one third through the year, with cumulative sales of 177,420 units, Turkey’s new car sales remain 2 per cent up on the same time last year
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EDITORIAL Electric LCV called StreetScooter "To do your own thing in the complex vehicle manufacturing business hardly ever works. So what chance is there that Deutsche Post DHL, engineering and building its own electric light-commercial vehicle - will make it pay?" Peter Schmidt | Editor | Germany’s average April CO2 emissions from cars rise to 130.4g/km | VW’s e-Golf was January’s top-selling electric car in W-Europe |
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DIESEL
SALES | EUROPE
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AID DATA Heaviest shelling of already badly damaged diesel bunkers appears to be undergoing a lull at present
Although it is not a trend that has changed the diesel car market’s underlying downward trajectory, April’s diesel car sales figures, led by a couple of major markets, suggest nevertheless that during the second half of this year the underlying rate of decline from diesel cars could be slowing
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FINANCIAL
RESULTS FY 2018 | JLR Is this the end of Jaguar Land Rover’s party atmosphere? JLR Jaguar Land Rover, the Tata-owned manufacturer of prestige sector cars, suffered a financial setback during its fiscal year ending March 31 this year
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TRADE | CHINA
China cuts duty on imported cars to 15%
China’s decision to counter threats of a potentially deeply damaging trade war with the US has ostensibly sparked a surprise Chinese move to cut its import tariff for fully assembled cars from 25% to 15% from July 1 this year
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VW | EUROPE
Volkswagen fight-back, gaining, thanks in part to diesel scrappage incentives
April’s new car sales in Western Europe provided Europe’s motor barons with yet another reason for cautious satisfaction; none more so than with market leader Volkswagen
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NL1809 | Published - 18 May 2018 Click image to enlarge page 1 as printable PDF version |
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EMISSIONS | GERMANY
Germany’s average April CO2 emissions from cars rise to 130.4g/km
The actual percentage change in the average CO2 emission from cars in Germany this April may still look tiny, but the 1.6 per cent increase against the same month last year to 130.4 g/km is likely seen by car makers with dismay
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EDITORIAL Bosch rides to the rescue of dying diesel cars "Whichever way recent diesel car sales trends in Western Europe are looked at, few autoindustry observers would disagree with the view that today the region’s diesel car market is looking very sickly. Moreover, while the house is burning, none of the carmakers appeared ready to extinguish the fire. Until now, that is" Peter Schmidt | Editor | March sees 6% car sales dip, thanks chiefly to fewer working days | Bosch NOx breakthrough said capable of saving diesel car future |
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NL1808 | Published - 03 May 2018 Click image to enlarge page 1 as printable PDF version |
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WORLD | BRIC
Return to business as usual, China main driver
BRICs car markets back to previously familiar good form – Europe and USA, again left behind in the dust
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EDITORIAL Back on track, marked rise in Europe’s April car sales "What a difference a day makes. After the cold snap in March, last month finally saw the start of spring. With buds on the trees and the days growing longer, spring finally made its mark. Just over three days into May, AID’s first provisional stab at April car sales in Western Europe shows that all the region’s markets saw a notable uplift in sales. That’s a healthy looking gain of more than 9 per cent. In consequence, one third through the year, sales are up by close on 2 per cent for the regions. The reasons are all too easily spotted" Peter Schmidt | Editor | March sees 6% car sales dip, thanks chiefly to fewer working days | Europe’s Diesel car sales share slumps to 14 year low |
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TRUCK
SALES | EUROPE
March truck business slackens, pulled down by shorter working month
West Europe’s March sales of heavy trucks in the 16t and above weight category dropped 5.5 per cent. Significantly, the region’s truck market, echoing the picture already seen in the March car market, was expected to suffer a notable setback because of last month's loss of between one and two working days
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DIESEL
TECHNOLOGY
Bosch NOx breakthrough said capable of saving diesel car future
Bosch, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of diesel engine components and widely recognised as the premier authority on light-duty diesel engine technology, says it has made a genuine breakthrough in terms of neutralizing diesel engine emissions by drastically reducing vexed NOx emissions from diesel cars to a mere fraction of the permitted post 2020 levels in EU Europe
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DIESEL
SALES | EUROPE
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AID DATA
Headlong plunge in diesel car sales continues
Whichever way latest AID compiled West European car sales numbers are
analysed, underlying demand for diesel powered cars is now falling a great deal faster than even pessimists would have projected only a year ago
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