We would like to invite you, together with Sendero Tax & Legal, to a free webinar in the series “Law and Taxes in Automotive” entitled “Management of Waste in Company”,
which will be held on May 14 at 10:00 a.m.
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In the first quarter of 2024
, new EU van sales
rose by 12.6%, with nearly 400,000 units sold on the back of strong results in key markets. Italy led with a remarkable 19.4% growth, followed by Germany at 12.7%, Spain at 10.9%, and France at 8.7%.
In contrast, new EU truck registrations
fell by 4% to 85,296 units. This was mainly due to a 5.4% decrease in heavy-truck sales and despite a 5% growth in medium trucks. Germany and France reported slight decreases of 2.2% and 0.3%, respectively. Spain and Italy defied the trend with robust gains of 15.7% and 6.6%, respectively.
Bus sales also had a positive start to the year, with new EU registrations
surging by 23.3% compared to the first quarter of 2023, totalling 9,624 units. While sales dropped by 16.8% in France, three major markets grew substantially: Germany (+20%), Italy (+18.3%), and Spain (+7.6%). Overview of current registrations
We are presenting a new European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA) report revealing an alarming gap between the current availability of public charging points for electric cars in the EU and what will be needed in reality to meet CO2-reduction targets.
EU electric car sales grew three times faster than charging point installation between 2017 and 2023, ACEA’s report shows. Looking ahead, the EU needs eight times more charging points annually by 2030, according to industry estimations.
“We need mass-market adoption of electric cars in all EU countries to achieve Europe’s ambitious CO2-reduction targets. This will not happen without widespread availability of public charging infrastructure right across the region,” stated ACEA’s Director General, Sigrid de Vries.
“We are very concerned that infrastructure rollout has not kept pace with battery-electric car sales in recent years. What is more, this ‘infrastructure gap’ risks widening in the future – to a much greater extent than European Commission estimates.”
Just over 150,000 public charging points were installed last year across the EU (less than 3,000 per week on average), reaching a total of over 630,000.
According to the European Commission, 3.5 million charging points should be installed by 2030. Reaching this target would mean installing around 410,000 public charging points per year (or nearly 8,000 per week) – almost three times the latest annual installation rate.
However, ACEA estimates that 8.8 million charging points will be needed by 2030. Reaching this would require 1.2 million chargers to be installed per year (or over 22,000 per week) – eight times the latest annual installation rate.
“Easy access to public charging points is not ‘nice to have’, but an essential condition to decarbonise road transport, in addition to market support and a competitive manufacturing framework in Europe. Investments in public charging infrastructure must be urgently ramped up if we are to close the infrastructure gap and meet climate targets,” cautioned de Vries
We present the latest report on the situation on the EU-AU border, which we received thanks to the establishment of cooperation with ASSTRA Forwarding AG.
According to the Ukrainian Customs Service, about 17,664 trucks are waiting to leave Ukraine, almost 6,749 trucks are waiting to go in the Polish direction; about 5,039 trucks in the Romanian direction; about 1,750 trucks in the Slovakian direction; 3,274 trucks in the Hungarian direction and about 852 trucks in the Moldovan direction >>> read more>>>