Europe: Plug-In Car Sales Expand By 60% In August 2021

Volkswagen ID.3 and Tesla Model 3 were on the top.

By: Mark Kane

Sep 28, 2021 at 10:09am ET

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The European plug-in electric car market notes strong expansion this Summer in very challenging circumstances, as the overall car market is down.

In August, the total number of new passenger plug-in electric car registrations in Europe amounted to 155,734, which is about 60% more than a year ago, according to the latest report by Jose Pontes (based on EV-Volumes data).

The market share has increased to 17%, including 8% for BEVs and 9% for PHEV. All-electric cars are catching up with plug-in hybrids right now, expanding faster - by 72% year-over-year (while the PHEV increased by 47%).

We are now waiting on September's results, which should be very high due to Tesla's usual push in the last month of a quarter.

Plug-In Electric Car Sales In Europe – August 2021

So far this year, over 1.35 million passenger plug-in electric cars were registered in Europe. That's also 17% of the total market (8% BEVs).

The most popular models

The two most popular models in August were the Volkswagen ID.3 (8,025) and Tesla Model 3 (7,878). The Model 3 is also #1 YTD (76,440) with a huge advantage over the ID.3 (44,625).

The Volkswagen ID.4 (4,844) was third, ahead of the Renault ZOE (4,065) and Ford Mustang Mach-E (3,743).

If we count the Skoda Enyaq iV (3,674) together with the Volkswagen ID.4, we would get a total of 8,518 and there is also Audi Q4 e-tron (2,082) on top of that (MEB-based crossover/SUV models from the Volkswagen Group).

The Ford Kuga PHEV (3,666) is the top plug-in hybrid model in Europe.

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