{"id":253028,"date":"2025-09-25T07:12:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T07:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/253028\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T07:12:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T07:12:14","slug":"eu-car-market-expands-in-august-as-ev-sales-continue-to-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/253028\/","title":{"rendered":"EU car market expands in August as EV sales continue to rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ISTANBUL<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong\/>The EU passenger car market grew by 5.3% in August compared to the same month last year, with 677,786 new automobile registrations, according to data released Thursday by the European Automobile Manufacturers\u2019 Association.<\/p>\n<p>In Europe, including the EU, the European Free Trade Association, and the UK, the new sales also rose 4.7% year-on-year to 791,349 units in the same period.<\/p>\n<p>Among the EU\u2019s major car markets, Spain led with a 17.2% increase, followed by Germany at 5%. However, the Netherlands and Italy bucked the trend, both posting a decline of 2.7%.<\/p>\n<p>Electric vehicles continued to drive market growth. Battery-electric vehicle (BEV) sales surged 30.2% year-on-year in August, reaching 120,797 units and accounting for 17.8% of total new car sales. Spain saw a 160.8% surge in BEV sales, while Germany and France recorded gains of 45.7% and 29.3%, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Hybrid-electric vehicles (HEVs) further cemented their dominance, accounting for 33.9% of the EU market in August. Registrations of HEVs rose 14.1% to 229,970 units.<\/p>\n<p>Plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) also showed robust growth, with sales climbing 54.5% to 70,545 units.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast, traditional internal combustion engine vehicles saw sharp declines. Petrol car registrations fell 16.3%, while their market share was at 26.3%.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, diesel car registrations dropped 17.5%, reducing their market share to 8.8% in August. Double-digit declines were recorded in most EU markets.<\/p>\n<p>                            &#13;<br \/>\n                                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/p\/subscription\/1001\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size:12px; color:#444; text-decoration:none;\" rel=\"noopener\">&#13;<br \/>\n                                    Anadolu Agency website contains only a portion of the news stories offered to subscribers in the AA News Broadcasting System (HAS), and in summarized form. <b style=\"color:#1897F7\">Please contact us for subscription options.<\/b>&#13;<br \/>\n                                <\/a>&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ISTANBUL The EU passenger car market grew by 5.3% in August compared to the same month last year,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":253029,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[56234,64,133631,284,133632,133633,135,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-253028","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-markets","8":"tag-anadolu-ajansi","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-car-registrations","11":"tag-electric-vehicle","12":"tag-eu-car-market","13":"tag-european-automobile-manufacturers-association-acea","14":"tag-markets","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115263697345053679","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}