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WESTERN EUROPE
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March electric
car blues |
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OVER the next decade or so some visionaries
were confidently expecting the car industry to
both sell and lease forever growing numbers of
electric cars in mainly large urban areas such as
Paris, London and Rome, ushering in what some
industry thinkers saw as the beginning of an
electric car revolution. While there is no doubt that electric car sales numbers keep rising, albeit from a very, very low base, the fact that just 2,253 were sold in Western Europe in March, bringing sales for this year’s opening quarter to a no less underwhelming 4,867 cars, bears out the contention that the path leading to halfway decent and profitable sales of electric cars in Europe could be a great deal longer than anticipated, rocky, and uphill all the way
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