摘要: |
The buzzword of the past few years has been "unprecedented". It is tempting to use that term for the fact that 2022 had the lowest June new car registrations total since 1996. Depressingly though, terrible registration figures are now all too precedented. The only bright spot has been the rise in sales of battery electric vehicles (BEVs). BEVs took 14.4% of the market (up 56.0% year-to-date - YTD), and have now overtaken both hybrids and diesels to become the second most popular form of propulsion after petrol. Petrol share is still higher than it was 10 years ago (57.4% 2022 compared with 47.8% in 2012), due to the collapse in diesel, which is down from 50.8% to 10.4% over the same period. Indeed, outside the SUV market, diesel has barely any sales. For example the best-selling diesel hatchback is the Golf (no surprise there), which has sold less than 2,000 units YTD. Approximately one-third of the market (32.2%) is now taken by full hybrids, plug-in hybrids or BEVs. |