April 2024 - Peugeot dominates electric car market in France

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April 2024 - Peugeot dominates electric car market in France

The auto market saw plugin EVs at 24.3% share in France in April 2024, growing from 21.1% year on year. Full electric volume was up by a strong 45% YoY, while plugin hybrid volume was flat. Overall auto volume was 146,979 units, up 11% YoY, though remaining below 2017–2019 seasonal norms (~185,000). The Peugeot e-208 was once again the best selling full electric vehicle.
April saw combined plugin EVs at 24.

https://pushevs.com/2024/05/07/april-2024-peugeot-dominates-electric-car-market-in-france/

[LITUATUI]

Imagine an electric supermini like the Peugeot e-208 with a 60 kWh LFP battery, 460 km range, fast charge from 10 to 80 % in 10 minutes, V2L capability and cost less than 20.000 euros - without subsidies. Who would buy its gas counterparts?

The technology to build this hypothetical electric car already exists.

Since the introduction of module-less and cobalt-free battery packs years ago, electric cars can be cheaper to produce than their gas counterparts. This is a top secret formula that is kept away from legacy carmakers by evil Chinese companies that write their press releases in plain English.

I guess that when Chinese carmakers start producing their EVs in Europe and North America, legacy carmakers will eventually pay good money to learn this top secret trick to produce good and affordable electric cars.

Unless, legacy carmakers already know how to produce them, but don't want to. It can't be... can it?

[MaxH72]

Lol - this sounds about right Lituatui!

BEVs and other plugins are competing on price with ICE in China, but are often double the price of ICE in Europe. There is not any "cost" reason for this, it is delay tactics and profit squeezing.