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For Europe’s green movement, which still believed not so long ago that comparatively simple Prius-type petrol-electric hybrids (HEVs) could save our planet from overheating, there is good news and bad news
The good news is that HEVs have not only made notable inroads into West Europe’s new car market accompanied by robust gains from both pure electric cars (BEVs) and plug-in-hybrids (PHEVs).
The bad news, at least for the average income tax payer, is that these BEVs and PHEV gains were propped up in large measure by direct and indirect government subsidies.
Also, AID research reveals that some, if not all of the outwardly impressive sales inroads made this year from HEVs, were helped in no small part by significant financial manufacturer incentives.
This first half, at a time when disillusioned owners of blackened diesels continued to switch to petrol-powered cars in droves, West Europe’s sales of petrol-electric hybrids (HEVs) easily outperformed the overall car market.
In fact, compared with last year’s first half, HEV sales to June this year jumped by a third to 283,933 units, according to Acea.
This means that HEV sales, compared with the 2 per cent half-year car sales growth in the region’s overall new car market didn’t just rise but soar.
As result, West Europe’s HEV car sales share, excluding plug-in-hybrids (PHEVs) advanced to 3.6 per cent from 2.7 per cent during last year’s first half, according to
Acea figures.
That’s the way and ahead biggest car sales share of all electrified cars.
On a like-for-like first half comparison, half-year data shows BEVs at an improved 1.1 per cent and PHEVs also up to a stronger 1.2 per cent car market share, according AID’s own data.
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