The European Union has made this clear. one before 2035 climate threat running without brakes, vehicle manufacturers will not be able to sell internal combustion cars in the Old Continent. In this prediction, with a rather short-term perspective, the next 12-year horizon may seem very distant. the pure electric vehicles they consolidate In the market. But in Spain, a little over ten years is not a very long time, given the way it still has to go to consolidate its structure, and especially considering their penetration rate among sales.
If the latest quarterly data is taken, what is known in October for the first nine months of the year announced by the Spanish employers association Anfac manufacturers and dealers (Faconauto) were registered in Spain. this is a total of 21,106 pure electricity in 2022 or BEV. This value is generally 40.4% increase Compared to a year ago when 15,033 cars were sold. But if balanced by the total number of vehicles sold at the time, the figure is tiny: just one. 3.51% of total market share (which amounted to 600,281 cars) belonged to BEVs.
This means that for every electric car currently purchased in Spain, twelve petrols and five diesels continue to be purchased. Or the same thing that this commitment to a more sustainable vehicle is still not a reality in Spain. This place is currently occupied by traditional hybrids or HEVs, which account for almost one in three registrations in the first three months of the year (171,652).
Slow evolution compared to Europe
For Raúl Morales, Faconauto’s Director of Communications, it seems that evolution of pure electricity is “too slow”, said that it is a market that “continues to grow because we are very few in number”, but that with the current pace of development it “has remained almost stagnant rather than taking off”. A quick look at the situation in Europe confirms this.
Sales figures given last October by ACEA – the European Automobile Manufacturers Association – showed 716,963 BEV cars registered in the EU in the first three quarters of the year (26% more than the previous year), yes, in a total of ten sales (notably 10%) in that period. ,56). in the neighbor FranceFor example, less than 3 petrol cars are bought and only 1.2 diesel cars are bought for each pure electric car.. In the Netherlands, almost the same BEVs are sold as gasoline and 12 times more purchased than diesel. In Norway, the absolute leader in this electric drive, 24 and 22 BEVs are purchased for each petrol and diesel car, respectively.
big problems
The biggest difference in this dual situation, which, in Morales’s words, will not change through 2023, stems from the obstacles that still exist in Spain. On the one hand, it gives a “lack of public charging pointsabsolutely inadequate” and -according to Anfac- it reached 16,565 recharged settlements by early October. These are almost a third of the areas initially that, according to its strategy, the Government plans to deploy by the end of 2018 year (45,000) Moreover, most of them are not fast charging.
On the other hand, there are “insurmountable prices for most buyers” when it comes to pure electric vehicles. For example, the Tesla Model 3, this year’s best-selling BEV, costs at least 51,570 euros. Hybrid and generally the best-selling car in the country, the Hyundai Tucson costs almost half, at 26,525 euros. Major obstacles on a difficult road still to overcome.