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Every sixth electric car worldwide now comes from a German manufacturer.
According to a market study by the management consultancy PwC (PricewaterhouseCoopers), the proportion of fully electric vehicles increased to 17 percent in the second quarter, and to 50 percent for plug-in hybrids.
The VW Group, BMW and Mercedes-Benz will lift a total of 246,000 cars with a purely electric drive and around 370,000 partially electric plug-in hybrids in the first half of 2021.
According to PwC, the market for fully electric cars is currently still dominated by Chinese and US American manufacturers.
According to PwC, by far the greatest demand for fully electric vehicles is in China: 980,000 e-cars and 212,000 plug-in hybrids were registered there in the first half of the year.
In the second quarter, the proportion of purely battery-powered vehicles rose to over eleven percent and was ahead of the European core markets with eight percent.
The US has to catch up
"In a global comparison, 58 percent of e-car purchases during this period were on the Chinese market," the industry experts write.
The People's Republic is setting the course for e-mobility in order to "position itself as one of the leading high-tech nations and at the same time improve the quality of life of its own citizens by reducing environmental pollution".
In Germany, with 84,000 new registrations, cars powered by electrical energy almost caught up with plug-in hybrids in the second quarter, of which a good 85,000 new registrations were registered in the same period.
Together their market share in the first half of the year was 23 percent.
The growing range of products offered by manufacturers and government purchase premiums for e-cars and charging boxes are important levers, says PwC industry expert Felix Kuhnert.
In the USA, on the other hand, electric cars and plug-in hybrids combined only had a market share of three percent.
However, the incentives planned by President Joe Biden, increasing environmental awareness and technological advances could change that.
In view of the market ramp-up in almost all core markets, delivery problems for chips and batteries would come at an inopportune time, says Pwc strategy consultant Jörn Neuhausen.
In addition, the share of renewable energy sources would have to be expanded rapidly in order to actually exploit the advantage in terms of CO2 emissions compared to conventional drives.
mak / dpa
