Improvements in the Belgian, Dutch and French electric-vehicle (EV) markets failed to offset a drop of almost 37% in Germany's battery-electric sales, the European Automobile Manufacturers Association (ACEA) said. Car sales have shown mixed trends across the bloc, in part due to diverging policies on green incentives, while regulators have imposed hefty tariffs to try to keep out cheap Chinese EVs.
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Electrified vehicles - whether fully electric models, plug-in hybrids or full hybrids - sold in the EU accounted for 50.9% of all new passenger car registrations in July, up from 47% a year earlier.
But sales of battery electric and plug-in cars fell by 10.8% and 14.1% respectively, while those of hybrid-electric cars jumped 25.7%.
Car registrations at Europe's three largest carmakers Volkswagen, Stellantis and Renault fell in July from a year earlier by 2.2%, 5.2% and 1.7%, respectively, amid growing competition from China.
Sales of EV-maker Tesla dropped by 14.7%, while those for China's SAIC Motor were up 24.2%.
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The European Commission cut on Aug. 20 its proposed tariff on imports of Tesla cars built in China to 9%, while broadly maintaining plans for tariffs on Chinese-made electric vehicles of up to 36.3%.
Stellantis, which saw the biggest drop in sales among EU carmakers, had reported a bigger than expected fall in revenue and operating profit for the first half, also due to internal operational issues.
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