Plug-in hybrid sales are struggling in Europe, once a key market, as demand for all-electric vehicles grows, according to a recent report. European Automotive News report. But plug-in hybrids seem to be doing better in the United States.
As European consumers turn away from diesel cars and regulators tighten emissions regulations in the wake of the Volkswagen diesel scandal, many automakers have relied on plug- in hybrid to fill the gap, and the initial sales were quite high.
But recent sales data shows that plug-in hybrids tend to decline as electric vehicles trend up, according to European Automotive News. In June, plug-in hybrid sales fell 28% in France and 16% in Germany, according to the report. And in the UK, two all-electric cars are now on sale for every plug-in hybrid.
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Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) also predicts that plug-in hybrid sales will peak around 2026, with their share of plug-in sales having declined before that time.
This is not entirely unexpected, the report notes. Plug-in hybrids primarily serve as a stopgap effort until automakers can have dedicated EV architectures ready. Vehicles based on those architectures are currently in production, and the predicted tougher European Union emissions standards for 2025 could force automakers to shift more of their fleets of vehicles. to an all-electric drive system.
It could even be better. European regulators have considered early end of plug-in hybrid era to shift the center of gravity to an all-electric vehicle. Europe now has a more advanced network of charging stations, meaning motorists are less likely to need an internal combustion backup, and some recent field tests have shown that plug-in hybrids can generates significant pollution when not using electrical energy. .
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Meanwhile, according to the Department of Energy, US sales of PHEVs more than doubled between 2020 and 2021 – a faster rate of growth than electric vehicles. That’s amid a surge in EV sales, with all-electric models accounting for three-quarters of investment. 2021 plug-in car sales in California—The largest market for such vehicles in the United States
Expensive cars recently noticed that it took 11 hybrid, hybrid, and EV models from Toyota to get the new registrations of four Tesla EVs in the United States. But some plug-in hybrids, such as Jeep Wrangler 4xe, has been selling very, very well. Plug-in hybrid top 20% of Volvo sales in the US in 2021. They’re in the past now.
Plug-in hybrids still offer more versatility than fully electric vehicles, but they’re also harder to explain. After many years on the market, do buyers understand which plug-in hybrid better? when they first appeared?
