T&E's dashboard shows that EU electric car sales remained stable in 2022, growing at a slightly slower pace. With huge waiting lists for electric vehicles, EU carmakers need to step up supply – or risk not just losing sales to foreign rivals but also their hopes for a European battery industrial chain.
Most up-to-date data is available here.
Despite a difficult start to the year, the battery electric vehicle (BEV) market managed to overcome supply chain issues and finish 2022 with a 3%p growth in its share of the EU vehicles market:
With huge waiting lists for BEVs, EU carmakers need to step up supply – or risk not just losing sales to foreign rivals but also their hopes for a European battery industrial chain.
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