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The severity of France’s steep and sustained downturn in underlying
diesel car demand was driven home once more in May when sales of diesel
powered cars didn't just fall but plunge. Nearly halfway through the
year, and at a time when the sales share of diesels took a headlong dive
to a near two-decade low of just 47.7 per cent, the five months car
sales share of petrol-fuelled cars soared to 47.5 per cent according to
CCFA data.
Testament to the market’s continuing change in underlying car sales
trends, that’s a gain of 4.2 percentage points of market share in the
past twelve months alone, adding credence to the safe prediction that
before long petrol fuelled cars in France will again outsell diesels for
the first time in 17-years.
A less welcome development, French consumers’ intensifying trend to dump
their diesels for less fuel-economical petrol cars and heavier
SUV-Crossovers in particular is virtually guaranteed to stop and even
reverse earlier achieved reductions in average CO2
emissions from cars.
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