The UK, Europe's second largest plugin market, saw electric vehicle share almost double year on year to 25.6% in February.
) to arrive and start selling, in order to keep up with their industry peers. This is disappointing for the pioneers of volume BEVs who broke new ground with the original Nissan Leaf back in 2010.The UK is Tesla’s highest volume market in Europe, and now that the Model Y has finally arrived, we can expect BEV share to break new ground in the months ahead. Once Tesla’s European Gigafactory outside Berlin gets cranking, Tesla will goad the market further forwards in Europe.
Note that sales of combustion-only powertrains are on a steep downward slope, as more consumers turn their back on the technology. This withering of the legacy technology helps plugins grow market share, even faster than their actual growth in unit volumes . The speed of that BEV ramp up, and available volumes coming in to the UK market, are still unknowns for the months ahead. Presumably Gigafactory Berlin will focus in left-hand-drive units, potentially allowing Shanghai to increase their number of right-hand-drive variants for the UK and other RHD markets .
Meanwhile Hyundai and Kia are doing very well in the UK market, delivering decent volume of the new Ioniq 5 and EV6 siblings, and will soon be joined by their luxury sibling, the
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