Half electric, half thermal, plug-in hybrid vehicles had everything to please undecided customers, not yet ready to take the plunge to launch with 100% electric.
Gilles Le Borgne, the Renault group's engineering director, described them as “
the best of both worlds
”.
In Europe, half of the sales of so-called electrified vehicles (100% electric and hybrid) were rechargeable hybrids in 2020. In 2021, 141,000 of these new models were sold in France.
As much as 100% electric.
But, in 2022, the momentum broke: volumes fell by 10% in France, with 126,000 registrations.
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Presented by car manufacturers as a transition technology, before the big electric switchover set for 2035 in Europe for new vehicles, plug-in hybrids are no longer on the rise.
Last year, customers turned more to pure hybrids (without plug), that is to say…
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