Fully Electric Vehicle Sales In EU Overtake Petrol For First Time In December (yahoo.com)
(Wednesday January 28, 2026 @10:30PM (BeauHD)
from the would-you-look-at-that dept.)
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- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/01/28/2239249/fully-electric-vehicle-sales-in-eu-overtake-petrol-for-first-time-in-december
- Source link: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/fully-electric-vehicle-sales-eu-050456268.html
Longtime Slashdot reader [1]AmiMoJo shares a report from Reuters:
> Fully electric car sales in December [2]overtook petrol for the first time in the European Union , even as policymakers proposed to loosen emissions regulations, data showed on Tuesday. U.S. battery-electric brand Tesla continued to lose market share to competitors including China's BYD and Europe's best-selling group Volkswagen, data from the European auto lobby ACEA showed.
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> Car sales throughout Europe sustained a sixth straight month of year-on-year growth, with overall registrations, a proxy for sales, hitting their highest volumes in five years in Europe in 2025, though they remained well below pre-pandemic levels. [...] December registrations of battery electric, plug-in hybrid and hybrid electric cars were up 51%, 36.7% and 5.8%, respectively, to account collectively for 67% of the bloc's registrations, up from 57.8% in December 2024.
[1] https://slashdot.org/~AmiMoJo
[2] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/fully-electric-vehicle-sales-eu-050456268.html
> Fully electric car sales in December [2]overtook petrol for the first time in the European Union , even as policymakers proposed to loosen emissions regulations, data showed on Tuesday. U.S. battery-electric brand Tesla continued to lose market share to competitors including China's BYD and Europe's best-selling group Volkswagen, data from the European auto lobby ACEA showed.
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> Car sales throughout Europe sustained a sixth straight month of year-on-year growth, with overall registrations, a proxy for sales, hitting their highest volumes in five years in Europe in 2025, though they remained well below pre-pandemic levels. [...] December registrations of battery electric, plug-in hybrid and hybrid electric cars were up 51%, 36.7% and 5.8%, respectively, to account collectively for 67% of the bloc's registrations, up from 57.8% in December 2024.
[1] https://slashdot.org/~AmiMoJo
[2] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/fully-electric-vehicle-sales-eu-050456268.html
But, we'll pass them ... (Score:2, Flamebait)
by PPH ( 736903 )
... while they are parked at the EV charging stations.
Tesla was a leader (Score:2)
by adfraggs ( 4718383 )
But I fully expect them to end up as a niche brand. I do honestly respect a lot of the groundbreaking work that was done by Tesla, effectively proving that EVs could be mainstream. It took a lot of public money to do it, but maybe it was worth it. Now that job is done its up to someone else to make vehicles for everyone and that was never going to Tesla. I'm sure they'll always have something to offer but they're not the leaders on FSD and they don't really make the kind of simple EV that most people are lo
Reuters used to be able to write an article... (Score:5, Informative)
The basic claim is correct. This article is more in depth and it has a graph with the trends. BEV and Petrol (aka gas) HAVE met. at 22.5% of registration (though Diesel is still 7% and is separate. HEV at 33% and PHEV at 10.7% rounding out their categories.). Plain ICE, gas and diesel are def going down.
But if you count HEV as "gas" well... HEV+plain-ICE is 62% vs BEV at 22.5% so...
[1]https://autovista24.autovistag... [autovistagroup.com]
anyway, more power to them.
[1] https://autovista24.autovistagroup.com/news/eu-new-car-market-grows-amid-promising-ev-uptake/
Re: (Score:2)
There are a lot of words that are different in British English and American English; you should get used to it.
Just keeping it /. (Score:1)
75% of the responses to this article are now off-topic.
Petroleum is crude oil. (Score:3)
Petroleum is crude oil.
As far as words go gasoline came first in the 1860s then petrol in the 1890s.
People in all countries make up words. Where do you think words come from?
Re: (Score:2)
Gasoline is the older word, and FYI, it originated in London. It was a product of John Cassell called "Cazeline". A Dublin shopkeeper named Samuel Boyd got into a trademark dispute with Cassel, so changed the spelling to "Gazeline" as a dodge. The word "Gasoline" appears as a listed product taxed in the US in the 1860s. By contrast, the word "Petrol" didn't come into play until the 1890s, as a product created by Carless, Capel & Leonard. They tried to trademark it, but the trademark failed and it b
Re: (Score:2)
> The basic claim is correct. This article is more in depth and it has a graph with the trends.
The customers in the EU have made it clear what their preferences are, all things being equal, and things are rarely equal. ICE (and various HEV variants) will be the right choice for some for a long long time.
Re: (Score:2)
I don't think the Europeans want ICE, even if their agents mainly shoot American citizens.