Italy, Germany and France were mainly responsible for the break, while Spain increased by 8.4%. Electric car sales increased, representing 15.2% of the market, while internal combustion vehicles lost market share.
The European automotive market has a decrease of 3% of new records in the first two months of the year to 1.69 million units, impaired by breaks in the Italian, German and French markets.
In a statement on Tuesday on the evolution of the market, the Association of European Automobile Builders (Acea) reported that the number of new enrollment fell to 1,685,640 in the first two months, against 1,737,098 a year earlier.
Acea highlighted the negative performance of Italy (-6%), Germany (-4.6%) and France (-3.3%), which contrast with an increase of 8.4%in Spain.
The month of February was marked by a homologous descent of 3.4%, and 853,670 vehicles were enrolled, with the largest falls to be recorded in Germany (6.4%) and Italy (6.2%).
Electric sale increased by the previous year
Electric car sales (BEV) accounted for 15.2% of the market by February, increasing at 11.5% in the same period of 2024.
Hybrid enrollment accounted for 35.2%, the shared quota of combustion vehicles retreated from 48.5% to 38.8% in the first two months of the year.
Until February, the new BEV grew 28.4%to 255,489 units, with rises in Germany (41%), Belgium (38%) and Netherlands (25%), against the 1.3%decrease in France.
Among the hybrids, the descent went from 5% to 124,947 units, the result of 65.3% reductions in Belgium and 49.3% in France, representing 7.4% of the total records.
In internal combustion -powered cars, registration in the first two months fell 20.5%, in a fall scenario in France (27.5%), Germany (24.9%), Italy (19%) and Spain (13%).
Until February, 489,838 gasoline and 163,452 cars were registered with diesel, representing market quotas of 29.1% and 9.7%, respectively.
