Automotive sales figures for the first 8 months of 2021 have fallen in recent days. The opportunity to take stock of a rapidly changing market where the electric car is not the only winner, far from it. .
We only talk about her. In government, at trade fairs, in the essay section of the specialized press, etc. But the electric car does it have as many emulators as we imagine? Obvious on the surface, the answer is: Yes, most…
The figures interpreted (source PFA) are those adopted at the end of August, therefore after the first 8 months of the 2021 financial year. Duration over which the overall sales of new passenger cars increased by 12.8% compared to the same period in 2020, despite a 15% drop from one month of August to the next.
In a market which, at this stage, is recovering from a year 2020 marked by the emergence of a pandemic, the electric car obviously pulls the average upwards. found a buyer between January 2021 and today, against a little over 60,000 over the first 8 months of 2020. The increase is close to 50%, Renault Zoé, Nissan Leaf, Volkswagne ID.3 and others representing 8% of the sales mix instead of 6.1 a year ago.
Among the good students is in particular the Tesla Model 3, 18th in the tricolor ranking all categories combined (two places in front of the Zoé). More than 15,000 copies were sold in August 2021 alone. At the same time, less than 6,000 Peugeot 508s and a little more than 3,400 BMW 3 Series sold!
But the engine that wins the day is the hybrid. From just under 124,000 from January to August 2020, their sales rose to over 280,000 units over the same period in 2021. These figures have therefore more than doubled to reach 24.9% of market share at the end of August 2021. Cars combining thermal and electric vehicles outnumber those that run on diesel (22.4% of the market). Within the category itself, plug-in hybrids progress nicely by going from about a quarter to a third of hybrid sales.
Also pay attention to the “outsiders” of the market. A true drop of water in absolute terms, superethanol (or E85) takes off just by going from 2 sales in 8 months to more than 500 over the same period this year under the impetus of Ford and Land Rover who are converting part of their range there.
Less anecdotal, when diesel is eroding more than 55,000 sales and gasoline about 26,000, bi-fuel (petrol + LPG or petrol + CNG) in clusters of nearly 24,000 (31,153 instead of 7,458) and increased from 0.7 to 2.8% market share. Which is not ridiculous.
These statistical developments tend to strengthen our thesis according to which, there is nothing binary about the automotive ecological transition as our authorities suggest, but could take various and varied paths, at least in the short and medium term.
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Automotive sales figures for the first 8 months of 2021 have fallen in recent days. The opportunity to take stock of a rapidly changing market where the electric car is not the only winner, far from it. .
We only talk about her. In government, at trade fairs, in the essay section of the specialized press, etc. But the electric car does it have as many emulators as we imagine? Obvious on the surface, the answer is: Yes, most…
The figures interpreted (source PFA) are those adopted at the end of August, therefore after the first 8 months of the 2021 financial year. Duration over which the overall sales of new passenger cars increased by 12.8% compared to the same period in 2020, despite a 15% drop from one month of August to the next.
In a market which, at this stage, is recovering from a year 2020 marked by the emergence of a pandemic, the electric car obviously pulls the average upwards. found a buyer between January 2021 and today, against a little over 60,000 over the first 8 months of 2020. The increase is close to 50%, Renault Zoé, Nissan Leaf, Volkswagne ID.3 and others representing 8% of the sales mix instead of 6.1 a year ago.
Among the good students is in particular the Tesla Model 3, 18th in the tricolor ranking all categories combined (two places in front of the Zoé). More than 15,000 copies were sold in August 2021 alone. At the same time, less than 6,000 Peugeot 508s and a little more than 3,400 BMW 3 Series sold!
But the engine that wins the day is the hybrid. From just under 124,000 from January to August 2020, their sales rose to over 280,000 units over the same period in 2021. These figures have therefore more than doubled to reach 24.9% of market share at the end of August 2021. Cars combining thermal and electric vehicles outnumber those that run on diesel (22.4% of the market). Within the category itself, plug-in hybrids progress nicely by going from about a quarter to a third of hybrid sales.
Also pay attention to the “outsiders” of the market. A true drop of water in absolute terms, superethanol (or E85) takes off just by going from 2 sales in 8 months to more than 500 over the same period this year under the impetus of Ford and Land Rover who are converting part of their range there.
Less anecdotal, when diesel is eroding more than 55,000 sales and gasoline about 26,000, bi-fuel (petrol + LPG or petrol + CNG) in clusters of nearly 24,000 (31,153 instead of 7,458) and increased from 0.7 to 2.8% market share. Which is not ridiculous.
These statistical developments tend to strengthen our thesis according to which, there is nothing binary about the automotive ecological transition as our authorities suggest, but could take various and varied paths, at least in the short and medium term.
More info on auto-moto.com:
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