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24 March 2025
A total of 966,300 new passenger cars were registered in Europe last month, marking a decline of 3% compared to the corresponding month last year. According to JATO Dynamics data for 28 markets*, decreases in Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Ireland were the main drivers of this trend.
07 February 2023
This is owed to strong demand for Volkswagen’s electric SUV offering and the Cupra Born. Still, it lost almost 3 market share points to Tesla

03 February 2023
2022 marked the end of the Volkwagen Golf’s reign as Europe best-selling car. The hatchback has been the most popular vehicle in Europe since 2007.

18 January 2023
Registrations increased by 30% to 172,600 units, resulting in the highest monthly market share for these vehicles this year at 17.1% – the second highest on record after December 2021 at 18.9%.

24 November 2022
Last month, the overall market grew by the biggest margin in 2022 Volkswagen Group, Toyota, and Ford drive growth BEV registrations exceeded 1 million units since January The Volkswagen ID.3 and ID.4 led the BEV ranking In October, the European new car market grew by 14% registering 903,533 new vehicles. This marks the third consecutive month of growth in 2022.

27 October 2022
With 29,367 registered units, up by a staggering 227%, the Model Y accounted for almost 3 in every 100 new cars registered in Europe last month, marking the first time that the SUV has led the European ranking.

29 September 2022
Gasoline cars up by 6%. Made-in-China cars counted for 20% of all BEVs registered Europe in August

31 August 2022
The registrations of BEVs increased by 20% to 90,139 units in July.

28 July 2022
A total of 215,000 units were registered in June 2022, down by 8% from the 233,000 units registered a year ago.

04 July 2022
Overall volume fell by 13% when compared with May 2020 Volkswagen Group continued to lead, but Hyundai-Kia gained the most market share Stellantis secured the top three positions in the overall rankings Last month, the European new car market fell by 13% with a total of 935,854 registered units – taking the year-to-date new vehicle registrations to 4,482,463 units.
