The Tesla Model Y is the most popular vehicle across the continent over H1 2023.
ACEA shows a European market (EU+EFTA+UK) up 17.6% or almost 1 million units to 6,588,937 over H1. The H1 2022 volume was down -13.7% on the year prior. Battery Electric Vehicle registrations soar 45% over the period to 938,912 and 14.2% share vs. 11.6% a year ago, PHEVs edge up 1.7% to 480,283 and 7.3% share vs. 8.4% over H1 2022, HEVs gain 27.4% to 1,695,061 and 25.7% share vs. 23.8%, petrol is up 15.2% to 2,465,013 and 37.4% share vs. 38.2% last year and diesel retrogrades -2.9% to 842,080 and 12.8% share vs. 15.5% in 2022.
Spain (+24%) is the best performing Top 5 market above Italy (+22.8%), the UK (+18.4%), France (+15.3%) and Germany (+12.8%). Overall, Croatia (+46.2%), Portugal (+45.4%), Belgium (+35.4%), Netherlands (+31.3%) and Greece (+28.4%) fare best. Group-wise, the VW Group (+25.4%) excels in first place whereas Stellantis (+5.3%) is weak. Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi (+21.9%) also impresses but the rest of the Top 8 field all trail the market, with Toyota Group (+12.8%) and BMW Group (+9.7%) faring best.
In the brands lane, Volkswagen (+23.2%) is strong in first place with just above 700,000 sales, with Toyota (+10.8%) in 2nd place like last year but faring softer than the market. Audi (+26.1%) is up three spots on last year to land on the third step of the podium, with Peugeot (+7.4%) and BMW (+9.6%) nudged down to #4 and #5 respectively as a result, Renault (+19.5%) is up one rank to #6 and Skoda (+31.3%) up three to #7. In contrast Mercedes (+8.2%) drops three spots to #8 and Kia (+3.8%) is down one to #9. Dacia (+30.1%) brilliantly breaks into the Top 10 with almost 300,000 sales. Below, Tesla (+117.4%) and MG (+133.9%) stand out.
The Tesla Model Y is the best-selling vehicle in Europe over H1 2023, more models detail will be uploaded when made available to us.
Full H1 2023 Top 10 groups and Top 30 brands vs. H1 2022 figures below.
