Economic and Market Report: key takeaways about the EU auto industry – Quarter 3 2017

This 29-page Economic and Market Report contains a wealth of information and can be downloaded by clicking here. Some of the report’s key takeaways include:

Passenger car registrations

• From January to September, EU car demand increased by 3.7% to 11.7 million units.
• Car sales in the United States went down by 2.9% during the first nine months of 2017.
• 58 million cars were sold around the world so far in 2017, 3.1% more than last year.

Passenger car registrations by fuel type

• In the EU‐15, diesel’s market share fell from 50.2% to 45.7% of total car registrations. However, this drop was almost completely offset by an increase in the sale of petrol cars.
• With a 48.7% market share, petrol vehicles are now the most sold car type in the EU‐15.

Alternative fuel vehicle registrations

• 629,228 alternatively‐powered cars were registered so far this year (5.6% of EU car sales).
• Electrically‐chargeable cars made up for 1.4% of total EU sales during that period.

Passenger car production

• With 12.5 million units built so far in 2017, EU car production remained stable (-0.7%).
• Accounting for 21.7% of global car production, the European Union is the world’s second largest producer after China.

Exports of passenger cars

• From January to September, the EU exported 4.2 million passenger cars worth €94.5 billion.

Commercial vehicle registrations

• Nine months into 2017, EU commercial vehicle demand grew by 3.3% to 1.8 million units.

Exports of commercial vehicles

• EU commercial vehicle exports declined by 43.4% over the first nine months of 2017.

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This report’s information was presumed correct at the time of publication. ACEA is not responsible for any inconsistencies or errors in the data.