European new car registrations fell by 20% to just 821,000 units. The US market saw a similar drop of 18%, however in China, recent lockdowns resulted in a significant 48% decline for sales.
Last month, the popularity of low emissions vehicles continued to increase. The plug-in hybrid and pure electric cars (PHEV and BEV) outperformed diesels with 244,801 new registrations, compared to the 202,113 units for the latter.
Volume increased by 77% compared with February 2021 to a total of 87,400 units. In contrast, the volume of plug-in hybrids (PHEV) increased by just 6% to 67,400 units.
The Dacia Sandero topped the general model rankings in January with 17,558 registered units, up by 10% when compared with 2021.
According to JATO Dynamics’ data for 28 European markets, a total of 1,205,387 pure electric passenger cars were registered in 2021. This is 63% more than the 739,329 units registered in 2020, and 3.4 times higher than the 2019 total.
The Golf topped the market but posted the biggest market share declines across all models. Strong results for Tesla as the Model 3 secured 17th in the overall rankings.
Registered units of these vehicles hugely outweighed its diesel counterpart in November, with the volume for low emissions cars 41% higher than achieved for diesel.
According to JATO Dynamics’ data, last month was the second time, this century, that Volkswagen Group fell out of the leadership position for monthly registrations ranking by OEM.
As a result of the EV boom, the Tesla Model 3 topped the European model rankings in September, with 24,600 registered units – a 2.6% market share. This is both first time that an EV has led the market and the first time that a vehicle manufactured outside of Europe has occupied the top spot.
Building upon JATO’s service offering, leasing software provider, Sofico, has developed a real-time integration for its leasing customers – sourcing this data from JATO.
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