Diesel engine installation rate falls to 33% in Europe in the first half of 2019
- The diesel rate on new passenger car (PC) sales continues to decline in Europe. It fell to 33% at the end of the first half of 2019, from 36% in 2018, 45% in 2017 and 50% in 2016. In three years, it has decreased from half to a third of passenger car registrations.
- The consequences of "dieselgate", i.e. increasingly stringent regulations on diesel engines, reduction of the price gap between petrol and diesel engines repeated announcements of a ban on diesel in some cities ,and even the threat of abolition of diesel in a relatively short period of time, all lead customers to turn away from diesel cars.
- If we compare the market shares in the first half of 2019 between petrol, diesel, BEV, HEV and PHEV we obtain this classification: petrol dominates with 58.8% of the market, then comes diesel with 33%, hybrids (HEV) with 4.8%, 100% electric (BEV) with 2.2% and rechargeable hybrids (PHEV), which are more reserved for high-end models ,with 1.1%.
- Recent vehicle purchases have shifted to petrol engines (+2.7%), but also to hybrid engines (+33.6%). The market share of 100% electric vehicles remains low despite an increase in sales (+88.5%).
- Plug-in hybrid sales, on the other hand, declined by 4.7%. It should be noted, however, that the fall in diesel car sales is slowing sharply in Spain and Germany, while it remains significant in France, Italy and Great Britain, with the largest drop recorded in Great Britain.
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