April 4, 2022
Posted by: Jorge Platero
Category: Faconauto News
Alternative propulsions have accounted for 23,774 units sold in March 2022 compared to 25,350 in 2021 and 7,520 in 2020.
The month of March, with the carrier crisis in between, has left a figure of registrations very negative. A drop of more than 30% compared to 2021 and more than 50% compared to the year before the pandemic. Electrified vehicles have not been spared from these negative results either. In March, their registrations have fallen by around 6%. In total, 23,774 units have been registered compared to 25,350 in 2021 (-6.22%) and 7,520 in 2020 (+216.14%).
Despite the decline, the market share of alternative drives has remained high compared to the previous year. It is positioned almost in the first place equaling gasoline and very far from diesel. So that the cake is distributed as follows in March: 39.7% of the rest of technologies, which includes sales of pure electric (BEV), extended range electric (EREV), plug-in hybrid (PHEV) and non-plug-in (HEV), hydrogen (FCEV), CNG, LNG and LPG; 41.3% gasoline vehicles; and 19.1% diesel vehicles.
So far in 2022, 67,395 units of this type of vehicle have been sold, 24.38% more than in the same period of 2021 when 54,183 units sold were recorded. In 2020 the figure barely reached 39,000 units.
In the annual market share, electrified vehicles account for 41% of total sales, tied with gasoline.
Data by segment and autonomous communities
In March 2022, most of the autonomous communities have seen how the registrations of this type of passenger car decreased. The exception of Aragón (+3.23%), the Balearic Islands (+36.91%), the Canary Islands (+80.34%), Ceuta and Melilla (+34.09%), La Rioja (+8.08 %), Murcia (+2.12%) and Navarra (14.80%). Electric, hybrid, hydrogen vehicles… continue to have a higher market share in Madrid (41.16%) and Catalonia (15.45%).
But, what alternative energy vehicles are being bought? As a piece of information for dealers, in March 2022 the ECO and Zero vehicles stood out in the medium SUV segment with 9,644 units sold. They are followed by others such as compacts (3,191 units) or small SUVs (3,359 units). SUVs and large minivans are the ones that grow the most compared to March 2021.
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