Spain overtook France for the production of BEVs in the first quarter of 2024
- As we saw recently, Germany is the leading European producer of battery electric vehicles (BEV) in 2023 and also in the first quarter of 2024, thanks to a wide range of BEVs produced in the country including the Tesla Model Y which arrived in Germany in 2022 and which was the most produced BEV in Europe 30 countries (EU + United Kingdom + Switzerland + Norway) in 2023.
- Even if its production volume is down over the first three months of 2024 compared to the first three months of 2023 (55,000 units compared to 70,000), the Tesla Model Y remains by far the most produced BEV at European level this year.
- The most produced BEVs in 2024 behind the Tesla Model Y are well behind, as the Audi Q4 E-Tron, Peugeot e-208 and Skoda Enyaq fail to reach 15,000 units produced in the first quarter of 2024. We notice the drop of almost 50% of the production volume of the Volkswagen ID3 and ID4 in the first quarter of 2024, a direct consequence of the end in Germany of subsidies for the purchase of BEVs, these models being logically the most demanded in this country and suffering a collapse of their sales. These two models only occupy 11th and 12th place at European level even though they were expected to become the leaders in BEV production in Europe. The carmaker's objective was not achieved at all.
- Spain has overtaken France in 2024 as a European BEV producer because the Peugeot e-208 has been transferred from Slovakia to Spain and the Renault 5 E-Tech has not yet started on the assembly lines of Douai (France). Slovakia no longer produced BEVs during the first quarter of 2024 (consequence of the departure of the e-208 to Spain) but it has been producing them again since the begining of the second quarter of 2024 thanks to the launch of the Citroën e- C3.