PZPM - ACEA - Registration of new passenger cars in the UE by fuel types in 4Q 2020
Fuel types of new cars: electric 10.5%, hybrid 11.9%, petrol 47.5% market share full‐year 2020
We present the ACEA report on registration of new passenger cars in the EU by fuel types*
In the fourth quarter of 2020, nearly one in six passenger cars registered in the European Union was an electrically‐chargeable vehicle (16.5%). Stimulus packages introduced by governments to boost demand, following the unprecedented impact of COVID‐19 on car sales, sought to stimulate alternatively‐powered vehicles in particular, further driving demand for low and zero‐emission cars.
Overall in 2020, hybrid electric vehicles made up 11.9% of total passenger car sales across the EU, up from 5.7% in 2019. Electrically‐chargeable vehicles saw a similar surge in demand last year, accounting for 10.5% of all new car registrations in the European Union, compared to a 3.0% market share the year before. Although the overall decline of 3 million units in car registrations as a result of COVID‐19 hit diesel and petrol‐powered vehicles the hardest, conventional fuel types still dominated EU car sales in terms of market share (75.5%) in 2020.
