The electrified market improves compared to the previous year, but its entry rate is slow and it only represents 8.8% of the total market.
With 78,329 electrified cars sold, the national market does not reach the target of 120,000 units for this year and necessary to achieve the emission reduction targets set by the PNIEC for 2030
In December, alternative vehicles have positioned themselves as the first purchase option with a total of 33,546 units sold
Madrid, January 2, 2023.- Sales of electrified vehicles (electric and plug-in hybrids, including passenger cars, quadricycles, commercial and industrial vehicles, and buses) closed the year with a total of 84,645 sales, an increase of 19.1% compared to to the previous year. Despite this annual improvement, the electrified market continues to represent a barely representative volume compared to the general market, with 8.8% of the total share. For its part, in the last month sales of electrified vehicles were reduced by 2.8%, with 8,781 sales.
As for the registrations of zero and low emission vehicles (electrified, hybrid and gas), they increased by 10.2% in the year, with 344,824 units sold. This type of vehicle is located, along with gasoline, as the first purchase option for users, with 35.84% of the total market.
ELECTRIC VEHICLES – Zero Label
Sales of pure electric vehicles fell 1.5% in December, with 4,140 units registered this month. It represents 4.67% of the market share in the month. In the year as a whole, sales of these vehicles totaled 36,452 units, 31.3% more than in the same period of the previous year. The cumulative share of the year is 3.79%
PLUG-IN HYBRID VEHICLES – Zero Label
Sales of plug-in hybrid vehicles fell by 4% during December and reached 4,641 registered units this month. It represents 5.24% of the market share for the month. In the year as a whole, sales of these vehicles totaled 48,193 units, 11.3% more than in the same period of the previous year. The cumulative quota for the year is 5.01%.
HYBRID VEHICLES – ECO Label
Sales of non-plug-in hybrid vehicles fell by 9.9% during December, reaching 22,706 registered units this month. It represents 25.63% of the market share in December. In the accumulated year, sales of these vehicles accumulated 243,267 units, 8.9% more than in the same period of the previous year. The share of the total for the year is 25.29%.
GAS VEHICLES – ECO Label
Gas vehicle sales fell 0.44% in December with 2,058 registered units representing 2.32% of the market share in the month. In the year as a whole, sales of these vehicles accumulated 16,901 units, 8.4% less than in the same period of the previous year. The cumulative quota for the year is 1.76%.
HYDROGEN FUEL VEHICLES – ZERO Label
Sales of hydrogen vehicles were maintained compared to the previous year, with a total sales of 11 new registrations during 2022.
TOURISM MARKET
The registrations of electrified, hybrid and gas PASSENGER CARS reduced their sales in December by 8% compared to the same month of the previous year, up to 32,302 units delivered, which with 43.69% of sales rank as the first option of buy. Despite this decrease in the last month, sales of this type of vehicle have maintained an upward trend during the year, achieving a 10.8% increase in sales, which with 332,734 units represent 40.91% of the market.
Regarding the electrified passenger car market, in December its sales decreased by 3.3%, with 8,051 units sold. Battery electric vehicles (BEV) decreased by 2.3% to 3,420 units in the month, as did plug-in hybrids (PHEV) with a decrease in registrations of 3.9% to 4,631 units. In the last month, electrified passenger cars accounted for 10.89% of the total passenger car market.
Despite the constant increase that the electrified passenger car market has had during 2022, with an increase of 17.1% compared to the previous year and 78,329 units sold, the volume over the total market continues to be very low and more so in a market at short. Until the last month it has accounted for 9.63% of the general market, only 1.85 percentage points more than the previous year. Similarly, the total volume of sales achieved is far from the goal of 120,000 sales of electrified cars set by the PNIEC to meet the emission reduction targets by 2030. This demonstrates the need for urgent measures, both in speeding up procedures for the installation of fast charging points and efficiency of support plans for the purchase of vehicles to promote their entry into the national market.
STATEMENTS
José López-Tafall, general director of ANFAC indicated that “sales of electrified vehicles continue to rise. Compared to the previous year, the market is growing, but the rate of penetration is extremely slow. In the last month, a share close to 10% of total sales was achieved, when the electrified should have closed the year with a share above 14% to meet the decarbonization objectives set by the Government. At this rate, Spain is not going to meet its decarbonisation objectives, with the added problem that we are far from the European average and in the tail van of the two-speed electrification Europe that is being created. It is true that there have been problems in the supply of parts and in the logistics chain to deliver more new vehicles. But our neighboring countries and members of the EU also have the same chip and transport problems and have electrified vehicle shares above 20%, as is the case in Portugal, or 26%, as is the case in Germany. We need urgent measures for 2023, 2024 and 2025 that encourage the purchase of these vehicles so as not to jeopardize investment and employment in a key sector of the Spanish economy. ANFAC has presented numerous initiatives copying what other EU countries are doing where more electrified are being sold and the Spanish Government has rejected them. Manufacturers comply with the decarbonisation objectives, but we need public-private collaboration to be practical on both sides and not just theoretical on both sides”.