Monthly BEV registrations in Europe between 2019 and today
- Monthly registrations of battery electric cars (BEVs) in Europe show a constant evolution month after month, but a strong increase is observed from the spring of 2020, just after the March-April lockdown period. But it is more than a catch-up that is observed as the monthly sales increased from an average level of 20,000 to 40,000 units between January 2019 and January 2020, to quickly reached 80,000 units in September 2020 and 145,000 in December 2020, after stabilizing at 65,000 in October 2020 and 73,000 in November 2020.
- December 2020 was a special month as Volkswagen ID3 registrations rose (25,000 sales), for the first time ahead of the Tesla Model 3 (19,000 sales) and Renault Zoé (16,000 sales).
- Over the whole 2020 year, the Renault Zoe (96,650 sales) remains the European market leader in the electric car category, ahead of the Tesla Model 3 (74,704 sales) and the Volkswagen ID3 (47,249 sales).
- In the first half of 2021, the Tesla Model 3 however took the lead in the European market in the battery electric car category (65,348 sales), thus beating the Renault Zoé (31,411 sales) and Volkswagen ID3 (30,334 sales).
- Registrations of electric cars resumed a discontinued growth from March 2021 (100,000 sales), after a temporary low in January and February. BEV sales reached 70,000 sales in April 2021, 80,000 in May 2021 and 120,000 in June 2021. Sales for the first half of 2021 are therefore up by 127% compared to the first half of 2020. However in the first half of the year, in terms of smoothed months, there is a perceptible slowdown which may give a trend for the rest of the year.
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