One in ten new cars registered in Europe in 2021 were battery-electric vehicles, writes Brian Byrne.
The Tesla Model 3 was the biggest selling individual model, according to analysts JATO Dynamics, ahead of the Renault Zoe and the Volkswagen ID.3. Volkswagen topped the BEV rankings by group. More than 1,2 million pure electric care were registered in 2021, 63pc more than the number registered in 2020 and 3.4 times higher than the 2019 total. In addition, more than a million plug-in hybrid cars were registered.
Europe is now the second-biggest market for BEVs in both volume and market share, behind China. In Europe, Tesla's market share has dropped to 13.9pc of BEVs registered, compared to 31pc two years ago, due to increased BEV entrants to the market over that period.
