{"id":564189,"date":"2026-07-23T12:03:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T12:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/564189\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T12:03:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T12:03:14","slug":"electrified-cars-drive-europe-auto-sales-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/564189\/","title":{"rendered":"Electrified cars drive Europe auto sales growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Demand for electrified cars continued to underpin growth in Europe&#8217;s auto market in June, offsetting a sharp decline in petrol and diesel sales, data from the European Automobile Manufacturers&#8217; Association (ACEA) showed today.<\/p>\n<p>Growth in car registrations, a proxy for sales, also helped Chinese brands expand their footprint further across the European Union, Britain and the European Free Trade Association.<\/p>\n<p>Total car registrations rose 13.1% to 1,407,332 vehicles, today&#8217;s figures show.<\/p>\n<p>Battery-electric, plug-in hybrid and hybrid car registrations climbed 51%, 22.7% and 17.1%, respectively, together accounting for almost 70% of all new vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>Petrol and diesel car registrations fell 12.2% and 16.9% respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese automakers BYD, Chery and Leapmotor sold between almost three and six times more than last year. SAIC and Geely sales rose more than 50% and 11% respectively<\/p>\n<p>Registrations at Renault , Stellantis and Volkswagen rose between 3.6% and 7.3%<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Demand for electrified cars continued to underpin growth in Europe&#8217;s auto market in June, offsetting a sharp decline&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340116,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60],"class_list":["post-564189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564189","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=564189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}