Electric cars in Europe: The trend is clear, but one country is messing up the balance sheet

A new study shows that e-mobility is slowly winning over the masses in many European countries. But one country ensures that the overall balance slips into the negative.

The German research institute Center of Automotive Management (CAM) has published its 2024 electromobility report. This includes numerous analyzes and scenarios in the area of ​​alternative drives. CAM also examined the market and innovation trends for electric cars. With regard to Europe, there is a positive trend in new electric car registrations. However, the data also shows that Germany, of all places, is putting this trend into perspective with poor figures.

New electric car registrations in Germany are in the basement

The number of registrations of electric cars between January and August 2024 fell by 5.5 percent in Europe compared to the same period last year. However, a look at the individual countries shows that six nations from the top 10 were able to record a significant increase in a generally weak year.

Denmark achieved the largest increase with an increase of 50.8 percent. Belgium also increased the proportion of electric cars with a total of 41.3 percent more new registrations than in the previous year. E-mobility is also becoming increasingly popular in France (8.1 percent), the Netherlands (4.5 percent) and Spain (2.5 percent). In Great Britain, the number of new BEV registrations rose by 10.5 percent. So far more than 213,000 electric vehicles have been registered there this year. This means that Great Britain is only just behind Germany in second place among the countries with the most BEV registrations.

In Germany, however, a completely different trend is emerging. Germany recorded the largest decline by a significant margin, ensuring that the trend for all of Europe is also slipping into the negative. Compared to the previous year, the number of new BEV registrations in this country fell by a whopping 32 percent. That is around 114,00 vehicles fewer than in 2023. Sweden (21 percent), Italy (12.3 percent) and Norway (3.2 percent) have also not recorded any growth so far.

(CAM)Germany is significantly lowering the European average.