Last month, nearly 140,000 all-electric cars were sold, according to figures from the European association of car manufacturers ACEA. There were 127,000 a year earlier. Due to the increase, the market share has also become a lot bigger, because total car sales fell down a bit in September. More electric models have been purchased in Italy, Spain, Germany and the Netherlands, among others. Especially the increase at the eastern neighbors is striking. There, the electric segment has been in a lot of trouble lately. This was due to the reduction of subsidies for cleaner cars.
In the case of the hybrid variants, a more changing picture could be seen in the EU last month. The plug-in hybrids have been sold significantly less, but other hybrid models have done better.
ACEA has also come up with figures for the first nine months of this year and this still shows a strong decline in the electrical segment. Between the beginning of January and the end of September, 1.05 million all-electric cars were sold. That is 5.8 percent less than in the same period last year. The market share has also shrunk. In the first nine months of last year, 14 percent of the models sold ran entirely on power. This year that has dropped to 13.1 percent. Especially the strong decline in Germany is due to this. Remarkably, market shares for both plug-in hybrids and petrol and diesel cars have also gone down.