Auto & Transportation

After achieving growth in the first quarter, the European new energy vehicle market did not stop there. In April, the start of the second quarter, the European new energy passenger car market continued to grow. In April, the number of registrations exceeded 159,000, and the number of registrations this year was 616,000, an increase of 136% over the same period last year.

In April, the ID.4 and ID.3 pure electric vehicles from the Volkswagen Group accounted for the top two new car registrations. ID.4 also became the first SUV model to win the championship in the European pure electric market.

According to the data compiled by EV SALES, ID.4 sold 7,565 units in April and ID.3 sold 5,941 units; Kuga PHEV from Ford ranked third with 4,300 units; Volvo XC40 PHEV with 4,118 units The sales volume followed closely; the fifth place was the ZOE model from Renault, with 4,083 sales in April; the sixth place was the Peugeot 3008 PHEV, with 3,616 sales; the seventh place was also from Peugeot’s models, Peugeot 208 EV sold 3,597 units; Hyundai Kona EV ranked eighth with 3,525 sales; ninth was Mercedes-Benz GLC 300e/de with 3,484 sales; tenth was Fiat 500e, The sales volume was 3,267 units.

Judging from the top ten sales rankings in April, pure electric models accounted for six, and plug-in hybrid models accounted for four. In April, the new energy vehicle market accounted for 15% of the total vehicle sales market share, of which the market share of plug-in hybrid vehicles exceeded 7.9%, and the market share of pure electric vehicles was 7.1%.

In the sales ranking, there is another point worth paying attention to. The Tesla Model 3, which has a dominant sales volume in the first quarter, did not appear in the top ten in this sales ranking, and it has not even won a place in the top 20. . According to Tesla's global data, Tesla sold 53,000 vehicles worldwide in April, a decrease of 43.44% from the previous month. Sales in the European market were less than 1,000 vehicles, a decrease of 96.02% from the previous month. The reason for this is that Tesla’s production constraints are on the one hand, and more importantly, the European auto market entered the off-season in April, and Tesla’s delivery has always had a “tradition” of low initial quarterly volume and end-quarter impulse, plus the epidemic This has led to the impact of blockade measures in some European countries. Therefore, it is inevitable that Tesla sold less than 1,000 vehicles in April as the second quarter.

However, despite the lack of sales in April, the total sales of Tesla Model 3 in January-April this year still topped the list. Data show that the total sales volume of Tesla Model 3 this year is 32,444, leading the second place, Volkswagen ID.3 17,703 by nearly half. After Tesla Model 3 and Volkswagen ID.3 is the XC40 PHEV from Volvo, with a total sales of 16,870 units, with a 3% share; the fourth place is Renault ZOE, whose total sales are almost the same as the XC40 PHEV. The number is 16,659; the fifth is Hyundai Kona EV, with a total sales of 14,394; the sixth is the BMW 3 Series PHEV, with a total of 13,799; the seventh is Peugeot’s 208 EV, with a total of 13,554 The eighth place is Volkswagen’s April rookie champion ID.4, with a total sales of 13,346 vehicles; the Ford Kuga PHEV ranks ninth with 13,169 vehicles; the tenth place is the Peugeot 3008 PHEV with total sales. It is 13,137 vehicles.

It can be seen from the total sales rankings this year that Tesla Model 3 is still the absolute leader in the European new energy vehicle market. Traditional new energy automobile production enterprises have a greater impact on vehicles. However, as the sales of Volkswagen ID.3 and ID.4 are getting better, the Volkswagen Group's more and more pure electric models will also bring more local brands to the European market.