Historical, unprecedented… there are no qualifiers to describe the collapse of new car sales in France in 2020. Registrations have indeed fallen by 25% to 1,650,118, ie as much as… 48 years ago.
The lockdown at the start of the year was particularly disastrous, with sales falling 72% in March and 88.8% in April, before rebounding this summer.
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Despite this collapse, two segments benefited from the crisis, in particular thanks to the incentives put in place by the government in the spring.
Thus, electric vehicle registrations have more than doubled to 110,913 (42,764 in 2019) units.
As for plug-in hybrids, they quadrupled with 74,590 sales in 2020 against 18,592 in 2019. In total, electrified vehicles (battery and plug-in hybrids) represented 21.5% of registrations in 2020.
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AAA Data, which collects and analyzes sales data, expects this growth to continue with the renewal of the
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