Diesel Sales Europe
New passenger vehicle registrations in the european union and efta set new records despite flat sales during the first quarter of 2018.
Diesel sales europe. Germany britain italy france and spain were the largest single country new car markets in europe. Across europe diesel market share has fallen. The diesel market dropped by 17 compared to the same period in 2017 with 1574333 units sold across the continent. Diesel sales have been plummeting in the uk since the government announced this summer it would ban sales of conventional diesel and gasoline cars by 2040.
In 2014 the countries with the highest proportion of diesel fuelled passenger car sales were france spain portugal ireland and luxembourg with a share of diesel propulsion methods over 60 percent. Italy germany france and britain were the largest markets for diesel cars in europe during the first half of 2018. Diesel taxis in london image by flickr user lars ploughmann used under cc license in the us the volkswagen diesel scandal was a case of an automaker betraying the trust of more than half a million owners. Diesel now only has a majority in six of the major 15 european union car markets down from 10 in the first half of 2017 and overall.
Overall in 2016 495 of all new passenger cars registered in western europe ran on diesel and 458 on petrol while hybrid electric vehicles hev accounted for 21 of new cars electrically chargeable. From making up 459 of the car market in germany in 2016 they now account for 388. Diesel sales in europe will fall close to zero within 10 years. In germany it was 7.
And then there was a u turn. Percentage share of new passenger cars in europe with diesel engines in 2016 by country. Diesel car sales are declining across europe. In france the share of new diesels dropped to under 50 of the market for the first time in 17 years.
Diesel sales in europe have been dropping since 2015 and the dieselgate scandal however the situation has worsened in the first three months of 2018. In the first half of 2017 it fell from 502 percent of all registrations to 463 percent. However diesel car sales contracted in almost all european countries and the market share of diesel passenger vehicles in the european union eu and efta shrunk to 37. This was offset by petrol sales which rose 146.