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Hybrids make history and overtake petrol in latest figures

Baua Electric

Other large markets to see a decline included Belgium (down 18.6%) and Sweden (down 8.6%). Hybrids on top September was the first time that hybrid powertrains, made up of HEVs and MHEVs, overtook petrol to lead the new-car market. Then September saw a bounce back, as petrol and diesel both stagnated. year on year.

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Sweden December 2020

EV Sales

Looking at the remaining fuel sales in December, HEVs clocked 9% share, versus 5% a year ago, while petrol lost 26 % market share(!), now at 24% (it was 50% 12 months ago), while diesel was down 15% in share, to just 18%. Looking at last month Best Sellers, the VW ID.3

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Sweden’s Plugin EV Share Breaks New Records

CleanTechnica EVs

Sweden saw a record high 60.7% share, greater than the combined share of old-school petrol and diesel vehicles (32.3%). plugin electric vehicle share in December, up from 49.4% share year-on-year. Full battery electric vehicles took the largest share, with 36.4% December’s […].

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June 2023 – Tesla Model Y was the best selling car in Sweden

Push EVs

All of the overall auto market’s 9% YoY volume growth came from growth in plugins, leaving combined plugless vehicles with a volume drop, albeit with some shift in weighting from diesel to petrol. Diesel-only volume fell by over 37% YoY, to 2,277 units, and just 8.1% What are your thoughts on Sweden’s EV transition?

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Tesla Model Y strengthens its position in Sweden

Push EVs

Petrol-only vehicles, and HEVs, were essentially flat YoY, and diesels were down by over a third. Diesel share of the market reached a near record low of 7.6% (only December ’22 was lower, at 6.7%). Petrol share looks set to regularly slide under 20% in Q3 or Q4 this year. What are your thoughts on Sweden’s EV transition?

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Tesla helps catapult EV sales past diesel in Europe for first time ever

Teslarati

For the first time in the history of the European automotive market, electric vehicles outsold conventional diesel engine vehicles, according to new data from the European Electric Car Report. However, until September 2021, EVs were still lagging behind diesel vehicles, a long-time favorite of the European driver.

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ICE vehicles 80 times more likely to catch fire than electric cars

EV Central

Indeed, the available data indicate the fire risk is between 20 and 80 times greater for petrol and diesel vehicles. Out of Sweden’s 611,000 electric vehicles there were 23 fires reported while the 4.4 million petrol and diesel vehicles recorded 3400 fires. But they are not common, no matter what you might hear.