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Every 10th
new BEV passenger car across Western Europe during the opening two months of 2024 came from a Chinese brand
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Unravelling the heterogeneous nature of the European plug-in electric passenger car market, focussing on the 18 market West European region that accounts for over 95 per cent of total wider region's BEV deliveries. Providing strategic guidance, insights and the market's future trajectory – reinforced by exclusively collated high-quality current and historic monthly data.

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EXCLUSIVE W-European BEV market Q1 '24
The West European new BEV electric car market grinds to a halt in 2024 

April 2024

 The West European BEV fully-electric new passenger car market saw this year's opening quarter registrations (Q1 2024) grind to a halt, with year-on-year quarterly growth rising by just 3.5 per cent over the same quarter last year (Q1 2023), to 433,520 units (2023 Q1: 418,700)...
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EDITORIAL From our latest study

Geely's, masked-ball strategy, sees the Chinese holding company deliver every tenth new BEV car in January
March 2023

Snapping up 10% of the region's BEV new car market and ending the opening month, Geely, through their intelligent strategy of turning up to a Venetian masked ball and blending in perfectly with other guests, have silently but surely hit the market running... more >

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EXCLUSIVE UK No.1 BEV market Q1 2024

The UK was Europe's largest electric car market during the opening quarter of 2024
April 2024

The United Kingdom has become Europe's largest new pure electric passenger car market for the first time on a quarterly basis... 
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W-EUROPE  BMW Group strong BEV finish

BMW Group plugs-in to pure BEVs across Europe during the final quarter of 2023, with one of the most varied product offerings
February 2023        

BMW Group's share of the market came to within 5.2 percentage points of Tesla during the final quarter, indicating perhaps a shift in the market from the next wave of BEV consumers...

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EXCLUSIVE Chinese OEMs 2024 
Chinese car manufacturers struggle to surpass 3% market share

March 2024

Chinese car manufacturers continue to struggle to see their combined share of the West European new passenger car market surpass 3% market share penetration on a cumulative basis, according to the European Electric Car Study data...

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EXCLUSIVE Made in China BEVs in 2023
1-in-5 new BEV pure electric passenger car registered across W-Europe during 2023 were manufactured in China
January 2024

However according to exclusive data from the European Electric Car Study, 60 per cent of those made-in-China BEVs and shipped to Western Europe in 2023 were in fact from models belonging to Western brands ... more >

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UK-established and Germany-based European automotive industry market consultancy and publisher. Delivering exclusive incisive trends and developments in the global automotive industry, to the industry and stakeholders, with two decades worth of experience.

Offering key strategic insights, and market intelligence, focussing on the heterogeneous nature of the West European electric car market, including analysis of exclusively collated market data with in-depth guidance,
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Founder, Matthias Schmidt, previously served as the Chief European Analyst, at Automotive Industry Data Ltd based in the UK, with a demographic including executives, product planners and policymakers among others. 

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