Continue to suffer the car market in Europe: according to the data of theAceathe European Manufacturers’ Association Automobile, the sales of new machines have marked -2.1% in January in the EU, the United Kingdom and in the four EFTA countries (Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland), compared to the same month of 2024. Total sales were settled on altitude 995,271 units. In Italy the drop was of the -5.8% in January.
The data is dramatically more accentuated, -18.8%if compared to the sales of January 2019, month preceding the Covid pandemic. But while the sales of new machines brake, the purchase of the second Fly to +7.3% in December 2024.
Falling automotive market
Few of the European countries enjoy good health, as far as the automotive market is concerned: who is worse is the Francewho lost the -6.2% On the same month of 2024 and -26.1% on January 2019. Germanythe most important market in the EU area, which records a -2.8% on January 2024 and -21.9% on the same month of 2019. The Spain It is a happy island in the medium term, but on the long run there is no shortage of critical issues: the recovery in January 2025 was of the +5.3%while the comparison with January 2019 is merciless: -22.7%. In the United Kingdomin which the government has tried to push more than the electric car elsewhere, there is a drop in the -2.5% on January 2024 and -13.5% before the pandemic.
Stellantis has experienced a decline in -16%with 154,079 cars sold. Its market share dropped from 18% to 15.5%.
Sales of electric cars in Europe
“With battery -a -side electric cars that have a market share equal to 15%, it is clear that Europe still has a lot of work to get out of stagnation and reach the market share of 25% necessary to meet the rules of conformity on CO2 for 2025”, says Sigrid De Vries, general manager of Acea (European Association of car producers).
According to ACEA data, in the BE battery electric vehicles), sales have grown by+34%to 124,341 units, with a market share of 15%, thanks to a significant increase in registrations in Germany (+53.5%), Belgium (+37.2%) and the Netherlands (+28.3%). The three countries together represented 64% of all enrollment of battery electric cars.
In the whole year 2024, overall cars enrollments increased by +0.8% compared to 2023, reaching about 10.6 million units. Electric cars have conquered a market share of 13.6%.
Used cars are flying
Unrae announces that the transfers of ownership in December 2024 were 454,429, which the growth of the +7.3% Compared to the 423,350 of December 2023. While net transfers mark a +7.7%, minivultures a +6.9%. The year 2024 ended with an increase of +7.4%, with 5,410,612 total steps compared to 5,037,355 of 2023.
But compared to 2019 We return to talk about negative numbers: -6.2% on a monthly basis and -3.6% on an annual basis.
In December 2024 the Diesel It is still a leader, but with a weight that has gone down to 43.4%, bringing the entire 2024 to 44.8%. gaswith a slightly drop in 38.1% in the month (-0.3%) and 38.6% on the year. The hybrid car They occupy the third step of the podium, with 9.4% in December 7.8% in the accumulated one. Follows the LPG at 4.8 in December and in the entire 2024, while the methane It is positioned at 2.1% in the month and year. Beer And plug-in They go, respectively, to 1% and 1.2% of the total (0.8% and 1% on 2024).
