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Sweltering temperatures in much of July were echoed to an extent by hot buying intensity from some of the region’s electric car buyers. AID’s exclusive own figures show that West Europe’s July market for pure electric cars (BEVs) grew by almost 40 per cent. That’s partly thanks to strong respective sales gains of 35.8 per cent and 25.6 per cent in both Germany and Norway, now two of West Europe’s leading BEV markets. But that’s not all
Despite July’s scorching heat across much of Western Europe, those active in Europe’s BEV market found sweet comfort in unexpectedly lively BEV sales in some isolated European markets where until now BEV sales barely registered on auto-industry radar screens.
But whether July’s sudden BEV sales activity will change that still remains to be seen.
Apart from yet another good BEV sales month in Norway and Germany, July’s lively regional turnout on the electric car front owes a great deal to a near tripling in July BEV sales in the Netherlands, where sales rocketed to 1,053 units.
That’s due in part to a big benefit in kind (BIK) tax hike scheduled for January 1 next year for BEVs priced over €50,000.
There was yet another plus side to July’s European BEV sales.
In this respect, nowhere was the sense of surprise more palpable than in...
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