It would seem that European car buyers are slowly moving away from oil burners following Volkswagen’s diesel emissions scandal.
Sales of diesel passenger cars, which have in the past accounted for more than 50% of the Continent’s total vehicle sales, fell below the 50% mark in April this year, with more consumers opting to go for petrol or alternative fuel options, Automotive News Europe reports.
Citing figures obtained from analysts LMC Automotive, the publication reported that diesel’s share declined by 2.2% to 50.1% in the first four months of 2016, and by 3.1% to 49.7%. This dip is especially notable, given that overall new car sales in Western Europe market had gone up during the period.
According to LMC, the most notable drop was in the subcompact, compact hatchback and small minivan segments, though large and executive diesel sedans, which make up 80% of the volume of diesel sales in some European markets, also showed a decline, though the drop was marginal.
The ANE report added that IHS Automotive predicts that diesel’s market share in Europe will continue to drop, by 2027 to about 35% of the total market volume. This decline is prompting automakers to step up investments in alternative fuel efficient options, such as plug-in hybrids and EVs.
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France is banning diesel engines.
Germany/EU is having dieselgate scandal.
At east their petrol is clean. Our petrol is still filthy Euro 2M…full of sulphur and poisons. Oh Wai!
Diesel alredi Euro5
All diesel cars will be banned soon anyway so why not do it now? People should only purchase plug-ins either Plug In Hybrids or all electric. All other light duty vehicles should banned from production. Now
Malaysia haven’t even started the trend yet. The advance countries have already move on. Maybe Malaysia can skip the diesel straight to electrify.
Thats what P1 is doing. P2 pulak moving backwards and soon will replace engine with horse (real one with hooves) cuz it does not makan petrol
P1 nhhahahahh
Malaysia still tax cars according to engine capacity. Without realising saga 1.3 has more damaging effect on the environment than Prius 1.8
Pls tax cars according to CO2. Euro started doing this some 15 years ago. Malaysia is so slow.
what is not reported is the various tax reliefs , parking charges, congestion charges that people escape when using hybrid or EV vehicles. That’s why small cars, compact, subcompact, minivans, because these prowl the city only.
money is the driving factor, not saving the earth.
So the Japanese car makers were right to have focus on hybrid vehicles vs diesel. Not to long ago, I had people in this blog bashing hybrid cars and singing high praises of German diesel marques. Wonder where are these buggers now??? Hiding under a rock? Next on the car evolution cycle would would be EV. I am just waiting what the discussion would be? HP, 10 airbags, good resale value bla bla bla……