Electric cars Sales and charging networks

ACEA, the Association of European Automakers, has just published a full report on new car sales for the year 2018 and the share of alternative fuel cars.

Sales of new electrified vehicles:

In 2018, the share of electrified vehicles in new car sales was 2%, dividing perfectly between electric and plug-in hybrids, when it was 0.6% in 2014. But 80% of them are concentrated in only six countries. France ranks third with 45,587 units sold, or 2.1% of the market share, behind Germany (67,504 units, 2.0%) and the United Kingdom (59,911 units, 2.5%). On the red lantern side, Latvia is good to last with only 93 models registered for 0.6% of the market.

Purchase help:

The vast majority of countries offer tax reductions or exemptions on the acquisition or possession of an electric and/or plug-in hybrid vehicle, but only 12 out of the 28 countries that make up Europe offer purchase aids. surprisingly, Slovenia and Romania which reduce the purchase price of up to 7 500 and € 11,500!

Charge points:

76% of the 143 589 European charging points, up 316.8% since 2014, are in 4 countries: the Netherlands (25.8%, 37 037 units), Germany (19.1%, 27 459 units), France (17.3%, 24,850 units) and finally the United Kingdom (13.3%, 19,076 units).

However, if we take into account the number of charging points per road kilometer of each territory, the Hexagon goes from the third to the eighth place, with 2.3 points every 100 km, the first remaining the Country (28) followed by Luxembourg (27.3) and Germany (11.9).

At the other extreme, Romania, six times larger than The Netherlands, offers a total of 125 over its entire territory, i.e. 1 per 1,000 km of road.

However, the countries ranking best in the above rankings are not necessarily those whose average CO2 emissions of new vehicles as a whole are the lowest.

Thus, Germany, first on the sales of electrified cars, second on the number of points of load and third on the mesh of the latter is the third market the most emitting of CO2 per new vehicle sold, with 129.9 g / km of average.