Europe’s car buying public still says no to electric cars

AID EXCLUSIVE
WESTERN EUROPE / ELECTRIC
Europe’s car buying public still says no to electric cars
With Norway taken out of the reckoning, this June the sector only accounted for a trifling 0.34 per cent of total W-European new car sales

Published: Fri, 25 July 2014 15:35:56 GMT
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Healthy-looking underlying consumer demand in Norway, rather than added demand for the newly arrived electric cars from European heavyweights such as BMW and VW, still seen as main driver behind Europe’s outwardly encouraging pick up in electric car demand

According to AID’s own monthly figures, West Europe’s electric car sales in June shot up by just under 80 per cent to some 5,350 units, paced in the main by a near fourfold jump in Norway to 1,446 units.

In consequence, Norway remains West Europe’s unassailable electric car bastion, where this June electric cars were already responsible for more than 12 per cent of total new car sales.

0.34%
West Europe's June new electric car sales share without market leader Norway

By contrast, with Norway taken out of the reckoning, this June the sector only accounted for a trifling 0.34 per cent of total West European new car sales.

That compares with 0.24 per cent during the same month last year...more

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West European new electric car sales:
by country JUNE 2014 VS JUNE 2013
by country 6-MONTHS 2014 VS 6-MONTHS 2013

West European new electric car sales:
by TOP SELLING MODELS 6-MONTHS 2014 VS 6-MONTHS 2013

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0.34% West Europe's June new electric car sales share without market leader Norway

0.34%
West Europe's June new electric car sales share without market leader Norway