Plug-in hybrids are cars that use both gas and electricity. You can charge their battery by plugging them in, and they can drive some distance just on electricity before using gas.
The Volkswagen ID.7 is a big electric car that looks like a regular sedan but runs only on batteries. It’s made to be comfortable and go far on a single charge.
The Volkswagen ID.3 is a small electric car that’s easy to drive around town and doesn’t use gas. It’s made to be a simple and affordable electric car for everyday use.
The Volkswagen ID.4 is an electric SUV, which means it runs on batteries instead of gas. It’s designed to be a family-friendly car that’s easy to use and doesn’t pollute the air.
The Polestar 4 is a sporty electric SUV that doesn’t use gas and is made to be fun to drive. It’s from a brand that focuses on making electric cars that look good and drive well.
The Kia EV3 is a new electric car that runs on batteries instead of gas. It’s designed to be affordable and easy to use for people wanting an electric car.
The Tesla Model Y is a small electric car that looks like a tall hatchback or small SUV. It runs only on electricity, so it doesn’t use gas, and many people like it because it can drive far on a single charge and is easy to charge up.
The Tesla Cybertruck is a new electric truck that looks very different from regular trucks, with a strong metal body. It’s not sold everywhere yet because some places have rules about how safe cars need to be for people walking nearby.
The Genesis GV60 is a small electric SUV that doesn’t use gas and is made by a luxury car brand. It has fancy features and looks modern, making it a nice choice for people wanting an electric car that feels special.
The Genesis GV70 is a comfortable and stylish SUV that many people use for family trips or daily driving. It has lots of nice features and is made by a brand that focuses on luxury and quality.
The BMW M3 is a fast and sporty car that looks like a regular sedan but is made to drive really well and go fast. People like it because it’s comfortable for daily driving but also fun on twisty roads.
An S-curve is a way to show how something grows slowly at first, then faster, and then slows down again, like how new cars might become popular over time.
The Peugeot 308 is a small car that’s easy to drive and park, with good fuel economy. It’s popular in Europe because it looks nice and is comfortable for everyday use.
The DS4 is a small fancy car from France that looks stylish and has lots of nice features. It’s made for people who want something a bit different from regular cars.
The Suzuki Vitara is a small SUV that’s good for city driving and some light off-road use. It’s popular because it’s easy to drive and doesn’t cost too much to buy or fix.
The Hyundai Kona is a small SUV that you can buy with a regular engine or as an electric car. It’s popular because it’s easy to drive, not too big, and doesn’t cost too much.
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Today, we'll have a look at some Euro EV sales data.
Tesla sales are halved in the last two years and Genesis enters France.
Plus, they tuned later in the show.
I'll tell you why Volkswagen Group are back in court with diesel gate.
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On EV News China today, we're talking about the EV Boom over Spring Festival.
Small EV sales are slumping and NEO achieving a swapping record.
Let's start with Germany then.
So plug-in EVs took 35% of Germany's new car market in December last year.
That's up from 23% the same time the previous year.
BEVs were 22% of Germany.
Plug-in hybrids were 12%.
A late-year shift towards plug-in vehicles.
For the full year last year in Germany, plugins were exactly 30% share.
And it was pretty much up from exactly 20% share in 2024.
Purebevs rose from 13% to 19%.
Plug-in hybrids climbed from 7% to 11%.
Overall, volumes changed little.
Germany registered about 250,000 new cars in December last year.
Now in December's BEV rankings, the VW ID7 led the way with 3,000 registrations.
Then she got a LROC and then Volkswagen ID3.
For the quarter last year, it was ID7, then ID3, then ID4 and 5.
We lumped them together.
Tesla in Germany are certainly having a tough time.
Tesla's Model Y fell 59% versus the same month in 2024.
We always try and look at year-on-year with Tesla because you can't really look at monthly data month-to-month
because of the way the exports and things like that work.
So try and look at year-on-year, try and smooth things out a little bit.
And certainly in Germany, even though they've got a factory dedicated to them there,
having some issues with Tesla there.
Now, plug-in EVs took 68% of Sweden's passenger car market in December last year.
So that's 68.6% up from 62% a year earlier.
For the full year 2025, plug-ins were 63% in Sweden.
That's up from 58% in 2024.
The overall market is up slightly.
Bevshare has been rising though.
So pure Bev is now 36.5% for the full year in Sweden and plug-in hybrids 26%.
What led the way?
Well, in December it was the Volvo EX30.
Be pleased to hear Volvos and Sweden still getting on very nicely.
And that's ahead of the Polestar 4, also Swedish, and the Volkswagen ID7.
The EX40 also led the entire quarter of 2025.
Q4 ahead of the VW ID7 and Kia EV3.
In Sweden, the Model Y dropped from 17,000,
17 and a half thousand registrations in 2024 to just five and a half thousand in 2025.
That's about two thirds of its volume in Sweden.
Of course, the ongoing labor dispute, I imagine, is taking up some of the press
and things like that, but Tesla still sell cars in Sweden, but a lot less than they used to.
What about in the UK, the United Kingdom plug-in EVs last month?
Sorry, in December 2025, 43.8% of that Bevshare 32 and plug-in hybrids 11.6%.
And so the point of going through these countries is to show that in nearly everywhere
in the big European markets, the ones that are maybe not the biggest markets,
but the ones that have gone more EV, like Norway, like Sweden,
and BEVs are normally two-to-one as popular as plug-in hybrids.
We watch that split really carefully, actually, and it's pretty much the case in many places.
Here in the United Kingdom, we have a mandate, so many places don't.
We do. It's technically the ZEV mandate, not technically that, but we call it that.
And so headline numbers of 22% in 2024, we just missed it.
28% last year, we just missed it.
But both were met by the time you factor in that the overall EV market met it.
So some companies didn't meet those mandates, but they were able to trade credits with others that did.
And so as an industry, we met it.
And this year, it's going to be 33%, and we may just miss it.
So you get a 32%. Now, I'm making up numbers, but say it's 31%.
Well, a third of all new cars being BEVs, that's amazing.
Our mandate goes to 52% in 2028.
In case you're wondering, it's 2028, the end of that year, by the way, that we make the flip.
So the UK will flip over if we meet our mandate.
More than half of all new cars sold will be a BEV in two years' time.
The end of that, two and a half years' time, I guess, a bit more than that.
And so it's a great number, but of course the installed car park,
the amount of cars on the road, still a ton of petrol and diesel cars,
and they're going to last many decades, and so important work to be done.
Tesla's January sales in 13 European markets fell 49% versus January of 2024.
So we're looking at two years here, because it's interesting, isn't it?
So if you look back Tesla two years ago, there was certainly the whole kind of Twitter,
X thing had happened, but the politics thing hadn't really happened at Tesla.
And so it's down 49% over the last two years.
Tesla has shed roughly half its European audience in two years
against the stated 50% annual growth rate, actually, by the end of this year.
So the end of the decade.
The UK fell 55%, Germany 59%, Netherlands 81%,
Switzerland down 79%, Spain, Portugal, Denmark.
I can go through the numbers.
Tesla's got some real issues to fix in Europe.
And I'm not going to be the one to suggest how they do that,
the cars that they do sell, you know, half decent,
obviously SNX are now off the table.
So they've only got two cars left.
Cybertruck can't be sold here because of pedestrian safety
and they're not going to redesign Cybertruck.
If anything, they're probably going to knock Cybertruck on the head.
But I mean, who knows.
And so, yeah, work to be done.
A little bit of marketing, sales, promotions.
I see some 0% deals, you know,
and that's a hard cost to Tesla's bottom line.
So not, you know, you've got to put a lot of money down
on a deposit and things like that.
But those deals are there.
Right, let's move on.
Genesis has entered France as its fifth European market
following Germany, UK, Switzerland and Italy.
These Genesis cars are fantastic, by the way.
I told you recently that it launched in Italy.
France, just like Italy, is only EV.
So Genesis have got a bit of combustion stuff,
but not in France, not in Italy,
not in the new markets that they're launching in.
So GV60, electric GV70, electric G80,
so SUV and luxury saloon.
They have an operating headquarters in Europe in Frankfurt
and they have a long-term commitment, they say,
to the European continent.
Now, Amazon's electric delivery van from Rivian
has surpassed 30,000 units now in the US and parts of Europe,
a 50% increase from the end of 2024 when it was 20,000.
This is, as per the Rivian shareholder letter,
by the way, at the end of Q4.
The milestone is measured against the commitment in 2019.
I had to look this up because I remember talking about it
at the time which just goes to show what was that
seven years ago on this podcast.
I was saying, Amazon, we're going to drive
100,000 of these around in 2030.
And I remember that, it's odd how things,
I mean, I can't remember what I had for breakfast,
but I remember talking about that on the podcast
and saying, like, is that a straight line?
Is that, is it an S-curve?
Is it just going to be 10,000 vehicles a year
over the next 10 years, which it wasn't?
And so they've got to make up some numbers
if they're going to get to 100,000 by 2030.
70,000 still to build and deliver.
They've got four years to do that.
And so the pace is nearly, you know,
double its historical average
if they are going to hit that 100,000 target.
Most of the vans are in the U.S.
By the way, a few hundred in Germany
where Rivian's expanding.
Amazon's installed 17,000 EV charges
at U.S. delivery centers.
Now DHL supply chain has opened
its 20th global EV center of excellence.
This one in Slovakia.
It's a massive facility
covering EV logistics from inbound, outbound freight
to battery testing and charging.
The site includes controlled temperature
and humidity zones, separate areas for general
and hazardous goods.
They say DHL Center of Excellence
serves automotive OEMs,
serves battery manufacturers and their suppliers as well.
The global network of sites
from China, Singapore, Indonesia,
Australia, USA, Mexico, South Africa
and more say that they're a gateway
for e-mobility growth.
That's interesting, isn't it?
Right, one more story before we take a break.
And this one is about just a quick bit of news.
We've talked a lot about Rivian's R2s
over the last couple of weeks or so.
Rivian just really quickly confirming
on its earnings call
that the R2 compact SUV
does begin its production sometime in Q2.
But they say volume will ramp through
the second half of the year.
These things are always a little wooly, aren't they?
It starts at normal Illinois with one shift
and they're going to guide to about 67,000 deliveries.
So that's as a business.
So probably 42,000 of the R1 series in the vans
and so probably 25,000 up to of the R2s this year.
So still a smaller part of their business
but R2 will be the majority of Rivian's business
by the end of next year.
Normal can make 215,000 vehicles per year.
They've designated about 155,000 of those
are going to be R2.
Base price around $45,000
but of course the launch editions will come first
and they'll cost a lot more.
We'll come back, we'll talk about Stellantis
and Suzuki and Volkswagen back in court.
Dieselgate rumbles on. Stick around back in a moment.
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This is interesting.
Stellantis are bringing back diesel
in seven European model lines.
They had 100% Bev Target by 2030.
And so there was a diesel return of the Peugeot 308
and the DS4, the Opel Astra as well, or Vauxhall Astra
at the end of last year.
But now they want to retain more diesel at Stellantis
just at a time when geographically,
a business like Stellantis, which is very European
and American, must be split in two
because of course Trump tariffs on imported EVs,
the end of the federal tax credit
has led to a very different timeline of EVs in America,
whereas in Europe, as I tell you about all the time,
as I've just mentioned at the beginning of the podcast,
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Stellantis sold 2.4 million vehicles in Europe last year,
but that was down 6%
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Hey, Suzuki's next in the news.
First fully electric production car arrives this June in Australia.
That would be the Vitara or E-Vitara.
Now got its full specifications.
Aussie is going to get two grades,
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Motion uses a front wheel drive,
49 kilowatt hour pack.
The range is 344 kilometers
or 214 miles.
The ultra trim has a 61 kilowatt hour
all wheel drive setup
and 245 miles
or almost 400 kilometers.
Both of them ride on Suzuki's e-platform.
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lithium ion phosphate batteries,
integrated heat pump as well,
battery thermal management
with the all wheel drive system as well.
They say to distribute torque
where it needs to sharpen the traction
on loose and slippery surfaces
and charging AC and DC wise
they are aiming for an 80% charge
in 45 minutes.
That feels all very...
2018 doesn't it anyway?
And they say that it'll have
7 kilowatts or 11 kilowatt
three face on board charges.
So look the E-Vitara is quite good
looking little vehicle.
Actually 10.25 inch instrument cluster,
10.1 inch touchscreen with Apple CarPlay,
Android Auto, physical switches for climate,
nice little glass roof with a shade,
wireless phone charging,
things like that.
Loads of safety gear,
pricing not been announced,
anything around $40,000
which is 28,000 US equivalent.
So BYD ATO 3,
Hyundai Kona, Keer EV3.
That would be very competitive
for certainly the base spec of that car as well.
Okay, Volkswagen are going to have to go back to court
once again because of Dieselgate.
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meant that I could drive past school gates
and feel smug that I wasn't polluting people.
And then it turned out they were doing all sorts of funky things
with my blue motion diesel Golf.
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Volkswagen Group is going to go back in court,
a criminal trial in France over diesel emissions scandal.
French prosecutors accuse Volkswagen
of deceit concerning goods that endanger human
and animal health under French law.
The Paris court will discuss trial dates,
but hearings look unlikely to start before next year.
Volkswagen have declined to comment so far.
They do I'll let you know.
The case sits in a wider net.
French authorities are pursuing Renault
and two Stellantis units over.
Emissions irregularities as well.
The scandal has exacted a steep price.
Tens of billions of dollars
extracted from automotive balance sheets.
So much gets made of battery investments
and write downs and write offs and the EV
change isn't happening as quick as some companies thought.
Nothing compared to what they had to spend on dieselgate.
Courts keep picking at the same thread.
In Germany, four former VW managers convicted
for their roles in the UK.
Mercedes-Benz, Ford and other automakers
are all facing this long march
of things like class action style trials.
A decade on that legal clock is still ticking.
Do we need any more evidence
that the move to EV just needs to happen?
Let's just put the past behind us.
I know that the legal process has to happen,
but what a place we got ourselves into
with dieselgate and the,
all of them were doing a version
of just emitting fumes.
But we know how to, it's a solved problem.
EVs solve that problem.
It's not like we're scratching our heads.
I can't even invent an electric vehicle.
It's been done.
And so, more evidence we just need to move on.
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About this episode
European EV markets are seeing significant growth, with plug-in vehicles reaching 30% market share in Germany and over 60% in Sweden. Tesla's sales in Europe have halved over two years, facing sharp declines in key markets like Germany and the UK. Meanwhile, Genesis expands its EV-only lineup into France, marking its fifth European market. Rivian's electric delivery vans for Amazon surpass 30,000 units, with production ramping for their new R2 SUV. The episode also touches on Volkswagen's ongoing Dieselgate legal issues and highlights the evolving EV landscape across Europe.
