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发表于 2020年12月15日

• Registrations

Evolution of the European passenger car market by brand from 1995 to 2019

- Inovev analysed the sales volume of the main automotive brands in the European market from 1995 to 2019.

- What strikes first is the predominance from 2005/2006 of the Volkswagen brand which stands out from all the others, while it was a brand on the same level as others between 1995 and 2005, especially Opel, Ford and Renault.

- From 2005/2006, many brands saw their sales volume drop, increasingly standing out from Volkswagen, which was resisting and even progressing. After 2010, these brands (such as Renault, Opel, Ford, Peugeot, Toyota) are at practically the same level (between 800,000 and 1,000,000 units per year), with a gap of around 600,000 units with the leader Volkswagen.

- At the same time, Premium brands (Mercedes, BMW and Audi) are at the same level as the five previously mentioned brands, after a good increase in their sales to date.

- Finally, new brands have appeared on the European market and have made great progress, such as Skoda, Hyundai, Kia and Dacia, which now achieve scores very close to those of Citroën or Fiat (Skoda has even surpassed these two brands) which have become the weakest of the big traditional brands (meaning present on the European market for a very long time).

- In summary, the gap is narrowing between the sales of the big brands (fourteen in total) while at the same time the gap has steadily amplified between Volkswagen and all the other big brands. The carmakers who have lost their influence the most over the past 25 years are Opel, Ford and Fiat.

    

 

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发表于 2020年12月07日

• Registrations

The global automotive market will decline by 15% in 2020

- The global automotive market (passenger cars and light utility vehicles) fell by 15.7% over the ten months of 2020, compared to the firs ten months of 2019. This decline is broken down as follows: -18.2% for passenger cars and -9.6% for light utility vehicles.
This decline in vehicle sales in 2020 is the result of the coronavirus crisis, which affected the whole world but more particularly the populations of Europe and America, those located in Asia having been less affected.

- The decline in vehicle sales was especially significant during the 2020 spring, when most of the major countries have established lock down for their populations. Sales, however, continued at an almost normal rhythm in countries where there was no or light lock down. These sales were made on existing stock for markets sourcing their cars from countries where factories has been stopped. This is the reason why stocks usually calibrated for one month of sales have fallen to very low volumes, the lowest in many years.

- Since the summer of 2020, global sales have started to rise again and are approaching pre-crisis levels except in Europe, where there is still a drop in sales of around 27% over the ten months in 2020. In Asia, the sales drop did not exceed 13.5% over the same period (a drop twice that of Europe). As for South and North Americas, the sales drop did not exceed 20%, a drop halfway between Europe and Asia.

- Based on these elements and a probable improvement in November and December, especially noticeable in Asia, Inovev expects the global automotive market to decline by 15% over the whole of 2020.

    

 

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发表于 2020年12月15日

• Production
• Registrations
• Toyota
• Japan
• Indonesia

Daihatsu remains the biggest "kei cars" producer

- Subsidiary of the Toyota group, the firm Daihatsu remains to this day the largest producer of "kei cars", a segment of vehicles less than 3.40 m in length and which benefit from tax and advantages in Japan (in particular free parking in large cities ) and which represent a third of the Japanese automotive market. These vehicles can be assimilated to European A-segment cars.

- In 2019, the Daihatsu brand sold 837,973 passenger cars worldwide (representing a decrease of 1% compared to 2018), sold mainly in Japan and Indonesia, since the brand has withdrawn from other markets for several years. Japan now accounts for 79% of its global sales and Indonesia 21%. To these sales must be added the 240,341 cars sold in Malaysia under the independent brand Perodua.

- Daihatsu still places two or three models in the Japanese Top 10. In 2019, for example, the brand (which at the time occupied 13% of the Japanese market) placed the Tanto in second place (175,292 units), the Move in fifth place (122,835 units) and the Mira in tenth place (94 545 units), these three models alone accounting for nearly half of the brand's sales.

- Daihatsu now offers 16 different models on the Japanese market, only two of which are not "kei cars", took in the Toyota range by the way. The first is the Altis, a rebadged and renamed Toyota Camry, and the second, the Mebiusis a rebadged and renamed Prius.
These two models only experience an extremely small distribution, as Daihatsu's clientele is traditionally focused on "kei cars", such as Suzuki's (696,000 sales in 2019, excluding Maruti in India).

    

 

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发表于 2020年12月07日

• Registrations

xEVs sales in Europe over 9 months 2020

- Out of 1,784,293 battery electric vehicles (BEV) and plug-in hybrid (PHEB) cars have been sold worldwide over the first nine months of 2020. 772,340 units were sold in Europe and 695,131 units in China. Of the 772,340 units sold in Europe, 54% are BEVs (+ 64.5% compared to the first nine months of 2019) and 46% PHEVs (+ 180.4% compared to the first nine months of 2019).

- The almost tripling of PHEV sales is due in part to the increased carmakers offer and it is to be noted that these models are rather premium and high segments, except for the recent launch of the Captur PHEV by Renault. BEVs and PHEVs now represent 9% of European registrations, against 3.5% in 2019 and 2.5% in 2018. It remains to be seen whether this exponential rate will continue over the next few years. It is clear that the increase in carmakers offer of BEVs and PHEVs will support this growth. Government decisions has to support also this trend. The United Kingdom, for example, wants to stop sales of cars with combustion engines in 2030 (to be confirmed), Norway from 2025.

- Regarding hybrid cars (HEV), they reach a total of 325,841 sales in Europe over the first nine months of 2020, plus 654,504 mild-hybrid & vehicles equipped with 48V batteries. These models saw their sales increase by 42.6% in Europe over the period. They now represent 4% of the European market, or 12% including mild-hybrid and 48V.

- The total of xEVs (BEV, PHEV and HEV) in Europe therefore stands at 1,098,181 units over the first nine months of 2020 (excluding  mild-hybrid and 48V vehicles).

    

 

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