New plug-ins enter the market: Toyota RAV4 Prime, Lexus UX 300e and Toyota Proace EV.
Toyota group (Toyota and Lexus brands) sold 715,081 cars in Europe (down 15% year-over-year) during the first nine months of 2020 and improved its market share from 5.3% to 6.1% (as the market is down 25%).
The most interesting thing is that the Japanese manufacturer keeps selling more and more hybrids, which now stand for 52% of the total volume. In Western Europe, it's 63%.
- Toyota + Lexus: 715,081 (-15% year-on-year), Market share: 6.1% (+0.8 ppt year-on-year)
- Total hybrid sales: 372,893 (-14.5% year-on-year) or 52% of all
We appreciate the electrification, but of course we are here not to rave about the hybrids. We are all-in for plug-ins (with an eye on hydrogen fuel cell vehicles), and here is what we see:
- Toyota Prius Plug-in Hybrid (aka Prius Prime) - 1,662 (0.25% of total Toyota brand sales)
- Toyota Mirai - 152
That's really marginal volumes. The good news is that three plug-ins are entering the market:
- plug-in hybrid Toyota RAV4 Prime (also as a Suzuki Across PHEV)
- all-electric Toyota Proace Electric with 15 year/1 million lm battery warranty
- all-electric Lexus UX 300e
We are aware that it's not a massive shift and the approach in terms of volume might still be minimalistic, but at least we see new models and hopefully it will expand from there.
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