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For AID’s perplexed market observers today’s question is not so much whether Germany’s previously long-flourishing domestic market for cutting-edge diesel cars will fade into obscurity, but how soon
Already half-way through the year, the sales share of petrol fuelled cars, excluding Prius type hybrids
(HEV) and other so-called mild hybrids (MHEV), soared to almost two-in-three sales.
Germany’s diesel car sales share at half-time dropped to less than a third.
It seems that Germany, not so long ago was still seen as a buzzing showcase scene for cutting-edge diesel engine technology.
Today, thanks almost entirely to the continuing toxic fallout from the self-inflicted dieselgate scandal, a fast changing tide of consumer car purchasing patterns is transforming the backyard of Germany’s previously admired autoindustry into a market increasingly dominated by humdrum petrol engines.
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