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 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 The sudden loss of steam, evident in both January and February, gives rise to AID’s downbeat view that this year’s European electric car market, barring the rumoured July introduction of electric car incentives in Germany, plus the renewed flare up of tempting purchase and use incentives in other markets, could end yet another year in the familiar wallflower position. A sector made up in large part by a still small assortment of pricey also-rans After a promising-looking brief interlude of buoyancy during last year's final 4th quarter, suggesting that European consumers’ lacklustre demand for today’s still pricey electric cars may finally give way to at least a moderate and sustainable pickup in registrations, since the start of this year these faint green shoots have started to wilt again, AID figures reveal. February’s electric car sales figures in Western Europe, coming in the wake of a sluggish 16.9 per cent rise in registrations this January, rose by 37.7 per cent, according to AID’s exclusively compiled figures. Compared with a notably livelier take-up rate during last year’s closing three months, when monthly electric car registrations edged up by between 47.9 and 69.8 per cent, the poor start to this year’s electric car sales season was seen as particularly disappointing...more MORE LIKE THIS: | Pace of electric car sales slowing? 26 Feb 2016
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