Sweden saw a record high 60.7% plugin electric vehicle share in December, up from 49.4% share year-on-year. Full battery electric vehicles took the largest share, with 36.4% share, greater than the combined share of old-school petrol and diesel vehicles (32.3%).
December’s combined plugin result of 60.7% comprised a record 36.4% for full battery electrics , with plugin hybrids taking 24.3%. This continues a shift in weighting towards BEVs over recent months.Looking at Q4 2021 — a more current sample of the state of play — BEVs climbed dramatically to 29.3% share from 13.1% in Q4 2020. PHEVs meanwhile fell slightly year-on-year, from 29.0% to 26.6%.
Highlighting the surge in BEVs, their December 2021 volume has increased 6.5x from that seen in December 2019. The equivalent growth in PHEV volumes is a more modest 2x.in December was under 25% of that seen in the same month in 2019 , whilst the same time frame saw diesel’s volume drop to under 20%.
December was the fourth consecutive month in Sweden when plugins took over half the auto market, and their dominance over plugless vehicles should remain in place from now on: Some readers have requested powertrain sales volume graphics, so here’s one of those. These are more irregular because auto sales are seasonally variable :December saw the usual end-of-quater push from Tesla, to take the top spot for the
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