OVER THE TOP: Diesel sales are falling, in line with lower sales of diesel-powered cars. Photo: MARKUS SPISKE/UNSPLASH
Historical fuel figures:
For the very first time, more electric cars than diesel-powered passenger cars were sold in the EU area in June.
It shows figures from the European car manufacturers’ organization ACEA.
The battery-electric cars had a market share of 15.1 per cent in the EU in June, compared to 13.4 per cent for diesel cars – a sharp change from the previous month, when electric cars ended at 13.8 and diesel at 14.1 per cent.
For the whole of Europe – that is, the EU, the EFTA countries (including Norway) and the UK – electric cars passed diesel in May, after both had a market share of 13.1 per cent in April.
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Gasoline on Norwegian soil
In Norway, diesel cars have a market share among first-time registered cars of 2.46 percent so far this year. Among cars with traditional passenger car bodies, Skoda has a market share in Norway of over 60 per cent of diesel cars.
Despite the low share, diesel is still almost twice as popular in Norway as pure petrol cars. Outside of Europe, the petrol models are by far the largest group, in Norway it is the smallest with a market share of 1.28 per cent.
In the EU area, more than every third new car is petrol-powered, and the market share in June was 36.3 per cent. Ordinary hybrids came closest with a share of 24.3 per cent. The figures for the entire European area were roughly the same as in the EU.
Growth in car sales
In total, close to one million new car registrations were made in the EU area in June, an increase of 17.6 per cent from the same month in 2022.
And the best-selling car in Europe in the first half of the year?
Tesla Model Y (125,144 sold).
In front of Dacia Sandero, Volkswagen T-Roc, Opel Corsa, Peugeot 208 and Renault Clio.
The five cars closest to the Model Y had a combined European sales in the first six months of the year of close to 500,000 cars.
In Norway, the same five models had total sales of 1,374 cars in the first half of the year, the vast majority in fully electric versions, with a total market share of just over two percent.
That is to say; two of these cars have no new car registrations in Norway until 2023 (Sandero and Clio).
2023-07-29 11:07:44
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