EV sales break records in Europe

Despite an overall declining automotive market, European EV sales have increased by 113% since beginning of 2020 compared to the same period last year, with a total number exceeding 900,000 plugin hybrid vehicles sold to date. Looking at the month of October only, CleanTechnica reports on a 13% market share for plugin vehicles in Europe (6.5% market shares for full electrics).

The combination of new stimulus programmes, new EV models available on the market as well as the push from automakers to meet their CO2 targets greatly support this trend. It is worth highlighting that the two largest automotive markets in Europe broke new EV sales records in November. Germany indeed hit the remarkable 20.5% market shares for EVs, while EV sales in France represented close to 15% of total passenger vehicles sales.