News Digest Item
15 Nov 2016

“Germany below average in European e-car market shares”

Welt

Germany is lagging behind other European countries in sales of e-cars, Welt reports. According to a survey by the CAR-Center for Automotive Research at Duisburg University cited by the paper, e-cars and plug-in hybrids had a market share of 0.7 percent from January to September in Germany, compared to an EU average of 0.9 percent. The share is higher in France and Great Britain at 1.4 percent each, Austria (1.5 percent), the Netherlands and Sweden (both 3.5 percent), and Norway (28.8 percent). Denmark (0.6 percent), Lithuania and Spain (both 0.3 percent) and Italy (0.1 percent) have an even lower share.

Read the report in German here.

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