New car sales in Europe fell year-on-year in January for the first time since June, weighed by declines in major markets including Germany, France, Belgium and Poland, data from the European auto lobby ACEA showed today.<\/p>\n
The downturn was sharpest in Norway, where new car registrations, a proxy for sales, fell about 76% compared to the same month in 2025.<\/p>\n
Europe’s car industry is in the midst of a major transformation, with traditional car makers struggling to compete with cheaper Chinese models and with a now-delayed push towards decarbonisation.<\/p>\n
They are also navigating an even more uncertain trade environment after most US tariffs were ruled unlawful by the Supreme Court of the US on Friday.<\/p>\n
Sales in the European Union, Britain, Switzerland, Norway and Iceland fell 3.5% to 961,382 cars in January, ACEA’s data showed.<\/p>\n
Petrol car registrations fell about 26% compared to the previous January, shrinking dramatically in France, by 49%, and in Germany, by 30%.<\/p>\n
They went from accounting for almost a third of the market share in Europe to just over a fifth in the period.<\/p>\n
In turn, battery-electric, plug-in hybrid and hybrid- electric cars were up about 14%, 32% and 6%, and collectively accounted for 69% of new registrations, up from 59% in January 2025.<\/p>\n
Registrations of Volkswagen, BMW, Renault and Toyota 7203.T fell 3.8%, 5.7%, 15% and 13.4%, respectively, while those of BYD surged 165%.<\/p>\n
Stellantis and Mercedes recorded gains of 6.7% and 2.8%, respectively.<\/p>\n
US automaker Tesla continued its downward trend with a 17% year-on-year decline, the 13th month in a row in which sales have shrunk, according to ACEA’s data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New car sales in Europe fell year-on-year in January for the first time since June, weighed by declines…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,113,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-314626","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}