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

  | Notable Hybrid inroads in Europe, buoyed in no small measure by incentives 
  | Weren’t Volkswagen’s sales supposed to fall? 

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

  | Weren’t Volkswagen’s sales supposed to fall? 
  | August new car sales in Western Europe didn’t just rise but soar 

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


  | Sweden | July says all change for higher tax new car market 
  | Tesla Q2 volume almost equal to Jaguar 

Since the start of July, higher taxed conventionally powered cars and diesels in particular are having a hard time wooing the average Swedish new car buyers. One consequence of these steep July 1 vehicle tax hikes, allied to a maximum possible SKR60,000 (€5,800) government grant for a qualifying BEV and PHEV, Sweden’s July sales of plug-ins (BEVs & PHEVs) soared by 107 per cent. For July, expressed in market share terms, plug-ins captured 18.8 per cent compared with 4.6 per cent in July last year



  | Sweden’s July steep vehicle tax hike sparks last minute June car sales frenzy 
  | UK today’s biggest European market PHEVs   

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” 


  | Sweden’s July steep vehicle tax hike sparks last minute June car sales frenzy 
  | Looking better, but genuine BEV take-off remains distant promise 

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


  | Looking better, but genuine BEV take-off remains distant promise 
  | UK today’s biggest European market 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) 


  | Looking better, but genuine BEV take-off remains distant promise 
  | Refreshed Nissan LEAF takes ZOE’s long held European BEV sales crown

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 


  | Ticking French CO2 time bomb 
  | Refreshed Nissan LEAF takes ZOE’s long held European BEV sales crown

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  


  | Ticking French CO2 time bomb 
  | Heaviest shelling of damaged diesel bunkers appears to be undergoing a lull at present

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  


  | Sudden buzz to Europe’s BEV sales 
  | VW’s e-Golf was January’s top-selling electric car in W-Europe

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 


  | Germany’s average April CO2 emissions from cars rise to 130.4g/km 
  | Heaviest shelling of diesel bunkers appears to be undergoing a lull at present 

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


  | VW’s e-Golf was January’s top-selling electric car in W-Europe 
  | Free fall in UK diesel car sales continued in March

First signs that a change at the top of Europe's now closely monitored electric car sales chart may be looming on the horizon came from AID’s exclusively compiled car sales figures for January showing that Volkswagen’s e-Golf has already nudged aside Renault’s ZOE, the long-standing number one in the region’s now closely monitored electric car sales chart 


  | Tesla’s Model S outsells Mercedes S-Class in last year’s W.European car market
  | Sudden buzz to Europe’s BEV sales | 2017 FULL YEAR sales

Tesla’s Model S outsells Mercedes S-Class in last year’s W.European car market

Of the new luxury chariots sold in Western Europe last year - a comparatively small segment best typified by Mercedes’ pricey S-Class - the already long-serving Tesla Model S, a pure electric car, was responsible for the lion’s share of sector sales. According to AID’s own car sales numbers, last year the Tesla Model S alone attracted some sector-leading 15,400 West European sales 


  | Sudden buzz to Europe’s BEV sales |  2017 Full Year BEV sales
  | Germany, Europe's largest market for electric car sales in November. Ahead of Norway

Sudden buzz to Europe’s BEV sales

Last year, according to AID’s exclusive electric car sales figures, saw the setting of a new milestone in Western Europe. Full year sales of pure Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs) in Western Europe – excluding Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs) – accounted for a highest-ever 1 per cent of last year’s West European new car market. Yet another sign that of late Europe’s new car buyers have finally warmed to the real viability of latest BEVs, the sector’s sales share in December’s otherwise shrinking overall car market ballooned to 1.5 per cent 


  | Germany, Europe's largest market for electric car sales in November... ahead of Norway
  | Mitsubishi has highest plug-in sales share in Europe

Germany, Europe's largest market for electric car sales in November... ahead of Norway

Setting a new milestone, this November Germany headed Europe’s electric (BEV) car sales chart, according to AID’s provisional round-up of November’s West European BEV market. With 3,031 pure electric cars hitting Germany’s roads for the first time this November - a near threefold jump in monthly sales - Germany nudged aside Norway into the unfamiliar second position 


  | Volkswagen takes West Europe’s October electric car sales crown
  | Mitsubishi has highest plug-in sales share in Europe

Mitsubishi, thanks in large measure to the striking popularity of its Outlander PHEV – today’s top selling PHEV in Western Europe - has the highest plug-in share in Western Europe. Some 17.2 per cent of the new cars sold by Mitsubishi in Western Europe during the ten months to October this year were fitted with an electric plug. That’s 15,800 sold plug-in cars, made up almost entirely of the company’s still popular Outlander PHEV, according to exclusive AID sales estimates 


  | Volkswagen takes West Europe’s October electric car sales crown
  | Mitsubishi Outlander still leads Europe’s PHEV model sales league

Germany’s crisis-rocked Volkswagen Group, condemned to pay tens of billions of euros in both rectification and penalties for its part in the market-changing dieselgate scandal, has overtaken Renault to become West Europe’s best-selling electric car (BEV) brand. A first tell-tale sign of what the future holds in store, this is the first time that this much-chastened German company has captured this closely watched position


  | West Europe’s 9-months BEV sales already exceed full year 2016 total
  | In Europe Tesla just keeps climbing, but second glance reveals less rosy picture

More pure electric cars have already been sold so far this year than the whole of last year. In Western Europe, with just three months left to the end of the year, the electric car industry has already broken all previous sales records, registering a total of 96,882 BEVs so far this year, already marginally up on full year 2016 sales, according to AID’s own exclusive numbers. AID investigates



  | In Europe Tesla just keeps climbing, but second glance reveals less rosy picture
  | Europe’s BEV picture brightens

During the nine months to September this year, sales of Tesla’s highly successful Model S and X in Western Europe may still be trailing Renault’s ZOE in pole position, or for that matter the second and third placed BMW i3 and Nissan Leaf, but in West Europe’s BEV car sales league the Tesla brand already ranks as Europe’s number two


  | Audi claws back August prestige sector crown in China
  | Mercedes, the calm before the storm?

In what generally ranks as the most significant holiday month of the year, typified more often than not by dealers’ deserted car showrooms, August still stands out as this year’s third best sales month for electric cars in (BEVs) Western Europe. The lively rate of growth seen of late in much of Europe, and this August in particular, gives rise to the more upbeat view that from now on electric cars in Europe could sell in higher numbers than forecasters in and out of the industry had earlier predicted


  | Toyota hybrids still reaping benefits of dieselgate scandal
  | Record month at home for Volkswagen’s electric car sales

The comparatively sharp and sudden swing in Europe’s diesel car sales fortunes - with the pendulum swinging this time into the wrong direction - is deeply gratifying for Toyota’s European car sales operation. That’s because hordes of today’s jittery European diesel car drivers appear to be dumping their newly demonised diesels for what many see as the next best future-proof alternative on Europe’s fuel-economy front 


  | Toyota eyes on Europe’s slipping diesel car market, hybrids pushed as safe haven
  | Hybrid sales share in Western Europe and US reach near identical 2%

Never before in Germany’s short electric car (BEVs) history has Volkswagen found as many willing home buyers for its BEVs as this August. Buoyed expectedly by VW’s sky-high €11,760 domestic subsidy for anyone willing to scrap an old diesel in exchange for a new e-Golf BEV, Volkswagen’s August electric car sales in Germany zoomed to 539 units, according to official German KBA car registration numbers 


  | Volkswagen still losing market share battle
  | July’s BEV turnout in Europe paints brighter picture

There can be little doubt. West Europe's electric car market (BEVs) suddenly looks a great deal healthier, and the underlying message of recent months seems to support the upbeat view that BEV demand across Western Europe now appear to be strengthening with almost every month passing 


  | July sees neck-and-neck BEV sales in Germany and Norway
  | Electric car (BEV) June sales share hits 1% mark

It may still be tiny and best known by Toyota’s hitherto uncontested sector leadership, but Europe’s market for simple petrol-electric hybrid cars may be about to enjoy a new lease of life as millions of Europe’s anxious diesel car owners appear ready to desert the crisis-hit diesel car market in droves. Hyundai-Kia, sensing an opportunity and hoping that today’s hybrid car sales trickle can soon turn into a stream, have only recently opened their hybrid car stall in Europe 


  | July sees neck-and-neck BEV sales in Germany and Norway
  | Toyota eyes on Europe’s slipping diesel car market, hybrids pushed as safe haven

Germany’s electric car market seems set to start this year’s second half in the manner it spent the first half of this year, growing markedly faster than expected 


  | Electric car (BEV) June sales share hits 1% mark
  | AID forecasts record 100,000 plus electric car sales in Western Europe this year

In Western Europe’s June market BEVs captured 1% car sales share, buoyed by hot sales in both Norway and Germany, AID data reveals. Europe’s electric car market, coming hot on the heels of a record first quarter, has lost little fizz during subsequent months. That’s underlined by latest AID compiled figures showing that regional BEV sales between April and June this year reached the second highest quarterly sales figure on record. A lively start to this year’s BEV sales season by any measure. 


  | AID forecasts record 100,000 plus electric car sales in Western Europe this year
  | April disappoints with 8 per cent fall in car sales

The take-up rate for pure electric cars in Europe, excluding plug-in hybrids, may still be a great deal slower than the industry had earlier expected, but despite the sector’s comparative snails’ pace rate of growth, the electric car industry may draw some comfort from AID’s latest prediction that this year’s electric car market in Western Europe is now forecast to breach the 100,000 level for the very first time, thus setting a new all-time record


  | March sees highest-ever electric car sales total on record
  | Tesla Model S photo finish in Europe’s 2016 luxury sector car sales race

April’s electric car market, on the face of it, retains all the familiar hallmarks of an excruciatingly slow advancing market segment, suggesting that Europe’s inevitable shift towards a new era of electric vehicle propulsion will be a great deal slower than some industry optimists had earlier anticipated. The down to earth view that Europe’s BEV market still remains miles short of reaching a potential breakthrough level is driven home by the realisation that at this year’s one-third stage West Europe’s BEV sales share has reached 0.8 per cent. That compares with nearly 0.7 per cent at the same stage last year, according to AID’s own data 


  | Toyota eyes on Europe’s slipping diesel car market
  | March sees highest-ever electric car sales total on record

Signs that West Europe’s electric car market is now in better health than for some time are contained in AID’s latest round-up of the region’s electric car sales.  Never before in Europe’s comparatively short electric car history have so many pure electric cars (BEVs) been registered as this March.


  | Toyota eyes on Europe’s slipping diesel car market, hybrids pushed as safe haven
  | Europe's February BEV electric car market builds on positive start to the year

Keen to cash in with its more future-proof hybrids while Europe’s diesel image is slipping deeper into the dumps, Toyota has put some extra muscle behind its European hybrid sales drive. Toyota, after regaining the coveted title of biggest seller of Japanese cars in the region, currently stands out as one of Europe’s biggest gainers, thanks in no small measure to the less vulnerable qualities of its petrol-electric hybrids


  | Hybrid sales share in Western Europe and US reach near identical 2%
  | EDITORIAL | Diesels: are German deserters switching to Toyota hybrids?

Already two months through the current year and a notable build-up of steam in Germany, and in particular across some of West Europe’s smaller markets, February’s somewhat hotter than expected one-third jump in electric car (BEV) registrations gives rise to the cautious but nevertheless promising view that West Europe’s BEV market still tells an upbeat tale


  | Europe’s 2017 electric car BEV market off to good start
  | Last year’s European BEV car share remained stuck at an unchanged 0.68%

Last year’s European sales race in the status-rich market for the large saloons favoured by senior bankers and bureaucrats ended with a classic photo-finish between the Mercedes’ S-Class - the traditional sector leader - BMW’s 7-Series and Tesla’s Model-S.


  | Europe’s 2017 electric car BEV market off to good start
  | Zoe was last year’s top-selling BEV in Western Europe

Petrol-electric hybrids, historically best typified by Toyota’s pioneering Prius, may have taken Japan’s car market by storm, where they already attract one-in-four sales, but in Europe’s diesel dominated car market these petrol-electric hybrids have clearly failed to get off the ground and in consequence have languished in the long familiar wallflower position, at least until now


  | Japan – Global car hybrid capital
  | Europe’s 2017 electric car BEV market off to good start

West Europe’s electric car registrations (BEVs) got off to a good start. AID’s exclusively compiled electric car registration figures for January show a sharp rise of more than a half to some 9,299 units. It helped lift the region’s BEV sales share to 0.85 per cent, a near 0.3 percentage point gain on the same month last year, which clearly ranks as good news for the industry


  | Mitsubishi Outlander still leads Europe’s PHEV model sales league
  | Zoe was last year’s top-selling BEV in Western Europe, AID’s own data reveals

Last year’s sales of Standard category cars rose by a trendbucking 10 per cent to 1.49 million units, boosting the sector share to 35.9 per cent, a new record for the sector, according to JADA numbers and AID research. Equally revealing, among last year’s top-five best selling cars were two hybrids. Apart from Toyota’s Prius in pole position, third slot in the league went to Toyota’s Aqua, the full hybrid version of a car sold in Europe as the Toyota Yaris. The two Toyota model’s were split by Honda’s N-Box kei-car.


  | China, US and W. Europe live up to autoindustry’s ‘pillars of strength’ reputation
  | Soth Korea | Diesel Fallout

It remains one of the oldest campaigners in this fast-expanding pack of plug-in hybrids (PHEVs), but the combined attractions of SUV-Crossover club membership, appealing performance and still tempting financial and other purchase incentives have again crowned Mitsubishi’s stalwart Outlander PHEV as West Europe’s top-selling PHEV for the second year running, according to exclusive AID compiled numbers



  | PHEVs remain out in front
  | PHEVs, after briefly losing out to BEVs regain the upper hand this January

AID compiled exclusive figures show that PHEVs still dominate Europe’s still tiny Plug-in market, and last year sold nearly four times faster than BEVs. The day that manufacturers of the pure electric cars (BEV) typified by Nissan’s Leaf or Tesla’s Model S may have been dreading has arrived: The fast-expanding new breed of Plug-in-hybrids (PHEVs), a sector still typified today by Mitsubishi’s still sector-dominating Outlander PHEV, is not only outselling electric cars, but last year’s PHEV sales in Western Europe also grew almost four times faster than sales of pure electric cars (BEVs), according to AID’s own data



  | In Europe PHEVs already outsell electric cars
  | Rosier glow to Europe’s hybrid car market, thanks chiefly to PHEVs

PHEVs, after briefly losing out to BEVs late last year regain the upper hand this January

The biggest test of the electric car industry’s ability to regain some of the strong earlier following of new car buyers has begun to unfold at dealerships across Norway


  | In Europe PHEVs already outsell electric cars
  | Rosier glow to Europe’s hybrid car market, thanks chiefly to PHEVs

Renault’s Zoe was last year’s top-selling electric car in Western Europe with 21,240 registered, 15.3 per cent higher than the 18,423 units registered in the previous full year, according to AID’s exclusive own data. Adding more praise, with 2,853 cars registered Zoe also topped December’s West Europe’s BEV league. But it certainly wasn’t a one horse race. Nissan’s Leaf took last year’s runner-up slot followed in third position by BMW’s i3, which was last year’s fastest notable gainer, according to AID’s exclusive data


  | European BEV share remained stuck at an unchanged 0.68 per cent
  | Tesla’s previous European highflyer takes a nosedive

Last year’s European BEV electric car share remained unchanged at 0.68%

Last year’s electric car (BEV) market in Western Europe, after progressively losing all of the fizz witnessed during the early part of the year, ended on a decidedly downbeat note. AID’s own exclusively compiled figures reveal that last year’s BEV sales – excluding plug-in-hybrids (PHEVs) - rose by a slightly slower than average 4.6 per cent to just 94,056 units. Testament to the view that true underlying BEV demand in Europe remains a great dealer lower than some optimistic prognosticators had earlier anticipated, last year’s European BEV share remained stuck at an unchanged 0.68 per cent  


  | November’s Electric Car market sees 6th fall in past 7-months
  | Tesla’s previous European highflyer takes a nosedive

The 6th fall in the past seven months, with November’s West European electric car sales (BEVs) falling by 1.4 per cent, gives credence to the downbeat view that European consumers’ appetite for latest electric cars, despite on-going sweetheart BEV ownership conditions and tempting financial purchase/lease incentives, remains a great deal weaker than the industry had hoped.  


  | BMW’s i3 heads October’s electric top-sellers chart
  | Joint autoindustry move to turbocharge Europe’s BEV recharging infrastructure

Volkswagen, evidently concerned about its place in a world where notably fewer individuals may choose to own their own cars, particularly in forever expanding global cities, decided to get further into the act with the launch of its own ride-hailing and mobility service company. Called MOIA, Volkswagen Group’s own start-up - launched at London tech show - is a stand-alone Zeitgeist service mobility brand to be headquartered in Europe’s emerging tech capital, Berlin.  


  | BMW’s i3 heads October’s electric top-sellers chart
  | Joint autoindustry move to turbocharge Europe’s BEV recharging infrastructure

The BMW i3, for the third consecutive month, topped West Europe’s electric best sellers’ list last month and is third in the year-to-date listing behind the still segment leading Renault Zoe and Nissan’s second placed Leaf



  | October’s BEV electric car market runs out of charge in Europe
  | Tesla’s previous European highflyer takes a nosedive

BMW, Daimler, Ford, Volkswagen Group, including Audi and Porsche, jointly announced today to turbocharge the creation of an ultra-fast electric car (BEV) recharging network in Europe in order to pave the way for anxiety-free long-distance electric car travel across Europe’s major road and motorway network 



  | October’s BEV electric car market runs out of charge in Europe
  | Tesla’s previous European highflyer takes a nosedive

Europe’s electric car market is faring a great deal worse than hoped only a year ago. Despite generous ongoing purchase and user incentives, a steady rise in electric car choice, a gradual uplift in real-life driving range and continuing electric car infrastructure improvements, European consumers’ appetite for today’s electric cars (BEVs) still remains a great deal weaker than the industry had hoped. That’s the stark message from AID’s exclusively compiled October electric car registration figures for the whole of Western Europe


  | Electric car market, stuck in neutral for four months, gets back into gear in September
  | Europe’s electric car market suffers 4th monthly fall in a row

Those with a vested interest in the electric car market breathed a collective sigh of relief as AID compiled figures showed a strong 38.6 per cent jump in West Europe’s September electric car registrations, reversing four straight monthly declines.


  | Europe’s electric car market suffers 4th monthly fall in a row
  | Far from picking up speed, in Europe electric car demand has lurched into reverse

EUROPE | ELECTRIC CAR MARKET |  AID EXCLUSIVE
Europe’s electric car market suffers 4th monthly fall in a row

Electric car sales in Western Europe, excluding PHEVs (Plug-In-Hybrids), fell for the fourth month in a row in August posting a 1.2 per cent dip from the same month last year. Without France, which saw a 38.9 per cent sales gain, West Europe’s August electric car sales (BEVs) fell 6.7 per cent widening the sales shortfall to date to 6.1 per cent, according to AID’s exclusively compiled data


  | Europe’s July electric car sales stumble for 3rd month running
  | Slow drift back to cheaper petrol cars

EUROPE | ELECTRIC CAR MARKET |  AID EXCLUSIVE
Europe’s July electric car sales stumble for 3rd month running

West Europe’s electric car registrations (BEV) – excluding plug-in hybrids (PHEVs) - tumbled further in July, with registrations dropping by nearly a quarter from year-ago, marking this year’s steepest percentage decline and the third successive drop in a row, exclusive AID figures reveal


  | Tesla’s previous European highflyer takes a nosedive
  | Far from picking up speed, in Europe electric car demand has lurched into reverse

EUROPE | ELECTRIC CAR MARKET |  AID EXCLUSIVE
Tesla’s previous European highflyer takes a nosedive

Tesla’s bigwigs across the pond, after removing their rose-tinted spectacles may be about to realise to their horror how much greyer this year’s electric European skies look. Seven months through the year, West Europe’s Tesla registrations already trail last year’s comparative levels by almost a quarter. But according to AID’s exclusive figures, it was a more than halving in Tesla’s July registrations in Western Europe that finally drove home the message that in Europe Tesla’s cars appear to have lost much of their earlier attraction as the year progressed. AID investigates


  | Renault’s ZOE, thanks to home advantage, remains W.Europe’s leading electric car
  | Tesla’s Model S outsold Mercedes S-Class in Europe last year

EUROPE | ELECTRIC CAR MARKET |  AID EXCLUSIVE
Renault’s ZOE, thanks to home advantage, remains W.Europe’s leading electric car

A distinct home advantage, chiefly France’s €10,000 super bonus, plus an encouraging steady take-up in both Norway and the UK has handed West Europe’s half year electric car sales crown to Renault’s ZOE. According to AID’s exclusive numbers, half year ZOE sales in Western Europe soared by a trend-bucking 40.7 per cent to a chart-topping 11,710 units. More than half - 6,526 units - found buyers in domestic France. 


  | Rosier glow to Europe’s hybrid car market, thanks chiefly to PHEVs
  | Far from picking up speed, in Europe electric car demand has lurched into reverse

EUROPE | ELECTRIC CAR MARKET |  AID EXCLUSIVE          
Far from picking up speed, in Europe electric car demand has lurched into reverse

According to AID’s exclusive research, June saw the second successive month of falling electric car sales in Europe, cutting West Europe’s electric car sales share for the month to 0.59 per cent from 0.70 per cent during the same month last year. Not only has this year’s electric car market failed to pick up speed from an already distressingly low level, sales in May and June lurched into reverse. But perhaps most disheartening for electric car makers, Germany’s car buying public, following the belated introduction of a €4,000 electric car subsidy at the start of this month, appears to have given an early thumbs down to the scheme



  | Rosier glow to Europe’s hybrid car market, thanks chiefly to PHEVs
  | Europe’s electric car market fails to build up steam

EUROPE | HYBRID CAR MARKET |  AID EXCLUSIVE     
Rosier glow to Europe’s hybrid car market, thanks chiefly to PHEVs

Supported increasingly by the strengthening pillar of subsidised Plug-in hybrids (PHEVs) in some regional hot spots such as the UK and Norway for example, this year’s underlying demand for cars in the overall hybrid category has continued to outpace an already fast recovering overall European car market, but it isn’t quite what it seems
 

  | Slow drift back to cheaper petrol cars
  | Can Europe’s diesel car market heal itself after the crisis?

EUROPE | PHEV CAR MARKET |  AID EXCLUSIVE     
In Europe PHEVs already outsell electric cars

Sales of plug-in hybrids (PHEVs) in Western Europe continue to rise as both environment- and value-conscious consumers, thanks principally to the lure of tempting plug-in grants in some markets such as the UK, are now opting in growing numbers for the flexibility of today’s PHEVs.

  | PHEVs – Take off or transitory blip?
  | Last year the Netherlands stood out as Europe’s towering PHEV capital

EUROPE | ELECTRIC CAR MARKET |  AID EXCLUSIVE     
Europe’s electric car market fails to build up steam

May’s electric car sales down 0.7 per cent, lower sales in half of West Europe’s electric car markets – dragged down by sudden cooling demand in Norway

For the emerging electric car industry, doing business in Europe has been anything but a joy ride. Last month, Europe’s car buyers not only bought far fewer electric cars than expected, but to the dismay of an outwardly upbeat electric car industry, May sales of pure electric cars in Western Europe fell in ten of the sixteen markets monitored by AID every month.

  | Europe’s April electric car charge drops to near zero  
  | Tesla’s Model S outsold Mercedes S-Class in Europe last year

EUROPE | ELECTRIC CAR MARKET |  AID EXCLUSIVE   
Europe’s April electric car charge drops to near zero

April electric car sales in Europe grow at slowest rate for 18-months, but imminent start of German E-Car subsidies offers glimmer of hope. AID’s exclusively compiled figures reveal that sales of electric cars - excluding PHEVs - in Western Europe in April rose 9.9 per cent to 7,300 units compared with 6,644 during the same month last year. 

  | Is Norway’s love-affair with the electric car over?  
  | March electric car sales in Western Europe reach highest total for any month on record

NORWAY | ELECTRIC CAR MARKET |  AID EXCLUSIVE      
Is Norway’s love-affair with the electric car over?

At a time when Norway’s previously bullish and expansionary electric car market veered off course after encountering sudden and previously unexpected turbulence, AID reports on possible reasons leading to this sudden squall of change. Is this the beginning of a big change in Norway’s closely watched car buying pattern? 

  | March electric car sales in W- Europe reach highest total for any month on record  
  | PHEVs – Take off or transitory blip?

W. EUROPE | ELECTRIC CAR MARKET |  AID EXCLUSIVE
March electric car sales in Western Europe reach highest total for any month on record  

Electric car sales in Western Europe, excluding plug-in hybrids (PHEVs) last month reached the highest-ever level for any month on record, but the rate of growth slowed sharply to the lowest level for sixteen months. AID’s exclusively compiled sales numbers show that West Europe’s electric car sales in March rose 12.2 per cent to a highest-ever 11,935 units, boosted once more by a more than doubling in registrations in France’s heavily subsidised electric car market

  | Tesla’s Model S outsold Mercedes S-Class in Europe last year  
  | PHEVs – Take off or transitory blip?

W. EUROPE | ELECTRIC CAR MARKET | AID EXCLUSIVE
Tesla’s Model S outsold Mercedes S-Class in Europe last year  

Last year, Tesla Models S sales in Western Europe edged up to 15,787 units, according to AID’s exclusively compiled data, while Mercedes sold 14,990 of its top-notch S-Class model

  | Last autumn’s promising electric car sales rally runs out of puff 
  | PHEVs – Take off or transitory blip?

W. EUROPE | ELECTRIC CAR MARKET | AID EXCLUSIVE
Last autumn’s promising electric car sales rally runs out of puff  

Signs that the outwardly encouraging fizz seen in Europe’s electric car market during the closing months of last year has fizzled out again since the start of this year comes from AID’s exclusive latest survey of West Europe’s electric car market

  | December’s miraculous electric car sales surge grabs the limelight 
  | Last year the Netherlands stood out as Europe’s towering PHEV capital

WESTERN EUROPE | ELECTRIC CAR MARKET | AID EXCLUSIVE  
Pace of electric car sales slowing?  

January’s electric car sales pace in Western Europe slows to mere trickle - is scale back of cash-draining subsidies and cheap fuel to blame? Strong growth in West Europe’s electric car market, which saw monthly sales increasing by between 24.8 and 71.8 per cent during the whole of last year, has slowed abruptly during the first month of this year. 


  | Last year the Netherlands stood out as Europe’s towering PHEV capital 
  | Renault ZOE was last year’s top-selling electric car in Western Europe

PHEV MARKET | AID EXCLUSIVE  
Last year the Netherlands stood out as Europe’s towering PHEV capital  

In the Netherlands, a mere minnow in overall car sales terms besides the might of the UK’s 2.63m new car sales last year, sales of tax-saving PHEVs climbed into record orbit. Last year, sales of PHEVs in the Netherlands pole-vaulted to a continent-dominating 39,170 units. Some 15,413 of these were registered during December alone 


  | PHEVs – Take off or transitory blip? 
  | Renault ZOE was last year’s top-selling electric car in Western Europe

PHEV MARKET | AID EXCLUSIVE  
PHEVs – Take off or 
transitory blip? 

AID’s exclusively compiled figures show that last year sales of PHEVs in Western Europe pole-vaulted to a new historic high of 95,140 units, which marks a near threefold jump in just 12 months. Last year’s sales rally, which culminated in December, helped elevate last year’s car sales share of PHEVs to 0.72 per cent 


  | December’s miraculous electric car sales surge grabs the limelight 
  | In Western Europe Tesla Model S already breathing down the neck of Mercedes’ segment-leading S-Class

WESTERN EUROPE | ELECTRIC CAR MARKET
December’s miraculous electric car sales surge grabs the limelight  

For the electric car industry, doing business in Europe is still no stroll in the park. And yet, of late some encouraging signs have been spotted, adding a positive note to this now closely watched niche in West Europe’s otherwise upbeat looking new car market 


  | W-Europe’s electric car sales could soon sweep over 1% monthly penetration 
  | Renault ZOE was last year’s top-selling electric car in Western Europe

ELECTRIC CAR MARKET | EXCLUSIVE
Renault ZOE was last year’s top-selling electric car in Western Europe 

Renault’s ZOE, thanks in large measure to the ongoing appeal of generous government subsidies for electric cars in domestic France, was not only December’s best-selling electric car in Western Europe. Making it a double victory, ZOE also captured the region’s top-seller crown for the whole of last year, according to AID’s own regular monthly European electric car sales figures 


  | Phantom electric car sales saga - Kia Soul EV 
  | West Europe’s electric car sales could soon sweep over 1% monthly penetration threshold

GERMANY
Phantom electric car sales saga 

An investigation into Norway’s electric car buying patterns reveals that a suspiciously large and progressively growing number of electric Kia Souls (Soul EV) entering Norway’s roads for the first time this year are not new. Instead, a notably large number of Kia Soul EVs registered in Norway consist of second hand models


  | AID forecasts 86,000 West European electric car sales this year
  | Switzerland’s status-conscious rich dump conventional luxury saloons for Tesla

ELECTRIC CAR MARKET | EXCLUSIVE
West Europe’s electric car sales could soon sweep over 1% monthly penetration threshold  

Electric car sales volume increased by between 47.6 per cent and 93.9 per cent this October in Norway, France, Germany and the UK.  In consequence, for the whole of Western Europe the boost resulted in a near two-thirds sales increase over the same month last year, thus elevating the region’s closely monitored electric car sales share in October to 0.77 per cent


  | AID forecasts 86,000 West European electric car sales this year
  | Tesla Model S captures July’s West European electric car sales crown

ELECTRIC CAR MARKET | EXCLUSIVE
AID forecasts 86,000 West European electric car sales this year 

Despite another month of double-digit sales growth from electric cars in Western Europe - with AID’s exclusively compiled figures showing a near one-third jump in September registrations - the sector’s underlying rate of advance has progressively slowed as the year wore on. It suggests that this year’s remaining 4th quarter could see more of the same


  | European electric car market - First flicker of hope
  | Plug-ins capture 6.4% of Netherlands’ May car sales

WESTERN EUROPE | AID EXCLUSIVE
In Western Europe Tesla Model S already breathing down the neck of Mercedes’ segment-leading S-Class 

Germany’s car makers, and prestige sector leading BMW, Audi and Mercedes in particular, received their second shock in little more than three weeks when AID compiled data for Western Europe revealed that in the nine months to September this year Tesla’s Model S has not only outsold previous sector heavyweights such as BMW’s outgoing 7-Series and Audi’s A8, but has also sunk its teeth into Mercedes’ top-notch S-Class

  | Tesla captures July’s West European electric car sales crown by narrow margin 
  | Switzerland’s rich dump conventional luxury saloons for Tesla’s Model S

WESTERN EUROPE | ELECTRIC  AID EXCLUSIVE

Tesla Model S captures July’s West European electric car sales crown

Thanks to yet another strong sales performance chiefly in Norway and Switzerland, plus a consistent good showing in some of the region’s other markets, Tesla’s Model S has been crowned as July’s best selling electric car in Western Europe. But AID’s exclusively compiled figures testify to a close run race for sector supremacy 
 

  > European electric car market - First flicker of hope
  > Plug-ins capture 6.4% of Netherlands’ May car sales

SWITZERLAND | ELECTRIC  AID EXCLUSIVE 

Switzerland’s rich dump conventional luxury saloons for Tesla’s Model S 

AID has learned that the vast majority of this year’s Model S sales in Switzerland were 4WD models; that’s 730 of the 835 sold there in the seven months to July this year 
 

  > LEAF and ZOE photo-finish in West Europe’s half-year electric car sales race
  > France’s €10,000 superbonus sparks June electric car sales rally

ELECTRIC  AID EXCLUSIVE  

Halfway through the current year, Nissan’s LEAF has scooped the coveted title of top-selling electric car in Western Europe by the narrowest of margins, beating Renault’s fast gaining ZOE in a photo finish into the runner-up slot with a winning sales margin of just 200 units, according to AID’s exclusively compiled figures 

  > France’s €10,000 superbonus sparks June electric car sales rally
  > Europe’s uphill electric car journey runs into May

FRANCE / ELECTRIC   

Following a comparative lull after April’s opening sales broadside, last month saw yet another dramatic firework display in France’s previously largely dormant electric car market. 

  > Renault’s comeback stays on the rails, but Dacia’s advance has slowed to a crawl
  > 2014 full year electric car sales analysis