{"id":8077,"date":"2025-04-26T18:44:05","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T22:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sharewatch.com\/wp\/2025\/04\/26\/european-car-sales-rise-in-march-but-tesla-drops-28\/"},"modified":"2025-04-26T18:44:05","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T22:44:05","slug":"european-car-sales-rise-in-march-but-tesla-drops-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sharewatch.com\/wp\/2025\/04\/26\/european-car-sales-rise-in-march-but-tesla-drops-28\/","title":{"rendered":"European car sales rise in March, but Tesla drops 28%"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tesla’s new car sales in Europe dropped 28.2% in March from a year earlier, even as overall battery electric vehicle sales rose 23.6% in the month, according to data from the European Automobile Manufacturers Association (ACEA).<\/p>\n

Total new car sales in Europe rose 2.8% in the month, boosted by double-digit jumps in Britain and Spain, as EV gains offset a fall for petrol and diesel cars, the data showed.<\/p>\n

Tesla’s sales drop in Europe adds to signs that drivers are shunning Elon Musk’s electric car brand as competition from China stiffens and some protest against his political views.<\/p>\n

European carmakers are also fighting competition from China, while battling to bring down high costs in home markets and now grappling with the effects of US President Donald Trump’s 25% tariffs on auto imports, clouding the outlook for the industry.<\/p>\n

Trump’s 145% import taxes on Chinese imports – and Beijing’s retaliatory tariffs – have also pushed global growth forecasts lower, raising new risks for automotive companies.<\/p>\n

March sales in the European Union, Britain and the European Free Trade Association rose to 1.42 million cars, after falling for two months, the ACEA data showed.<\/p>\n

Registrations at Volkswagen and Renault increased by 10.3% and 13% respectively, while they fell by 5.9% at Stellantis.<\/p>\n

Tesla’s sales fell for a third month, down 28.2% year-on-year, and its share of the total market declined to 2% from 2.9% a year ago.<\/p>\n

In the EU, total car sales fell 0.2% year-on-year, declining for a third month even as registrations of battery electric (BEV), hybrid electric (HEV) and plug-in hybrid (PHEV) cars increased by 17.1%, 23.9% and 12.4% respectively.<\/p>\n

Electrified vehicles – BEV, HEV or PHEV – sold in the bloc accounted for 59.2% of passenger car registrations in March, up from 49.1% in the previous year.<\/p>\n

Among the largest EU markets, sales in Spain and Italy increased by 23.2% and 6.3% respectively, while in France and Germany they dropped by 14.5% and 3.9%.<\/p>\n

In Britain, registrations were up 12.4%.<\/p>\n

Market experts say a growing interest in electric cars in Europe, the world’s second-biggest EV market, is largely due to new EU emission targets and the launch of cheaper electric models, although the EU has recently proposed loosening the targets.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tesla’s new car sales in Europe dropped 28.2% in March from a year earlier, even as overall battery electric vehicle sales rose 23.6% in the month, according to data from the European Automobile Manufacturers Association (ACEA). Total new car sales in Europe rose 2.8% in the month, boosted by double-digit jumps in Britain and Spain, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8078,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ocean_post_layout":"","ocean_both_sidebars_style":"","ocean_both_sidebars_content_width":0,"ocean_both_sidebars_sidebars_width":0,"ocean_sidebar":"","ocean_second_sidebar":"","ocean_disable_margins":"enable","ocean_add_body_class":"","ocean_shortcode_before_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_after_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_before_header":"","ocean_shortcode_after_header":"","ocean_has_shortcode":"","ocean_shortcode_after_title":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_bottom":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_bottom":"","ocean_display_top_bar":"default","ocean_display_header":"default","ocean_header_style":"","ocean_center_header_left_menu":"","ocean_custom_header_template":"","ocean_custom_logo":0,"ocean_custom_retina_logo":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_height":0,"ocean_header_custom_menu":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_family":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_subset":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_size":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_unit":"px","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_line_height":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_unit":"","ocean_menu_typo_spacing":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_unit":"","ocean_menu_link_color":"","ocean_menu_link_color_hover":"","ocean_menu_link_color_active":"","ocean_menu_link_background":"","ocean_menu_link_hover_background":"","ocean_menu_link_active_background":"","ocean_menu_social_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_links_color":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_color":"","ocean_disable_title":"default","ocean_disable_heading":"default","ocean_post_title":"","ocean_post_subheading":"","ocean_post_title_style":"","ocean_post_title_background_color":"","ocean_post_title_background":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_image_position":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_attachment":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_repeat":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_size":"","ocean_post_title_height":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay":0.5,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay_color":"","ocean_disable_breadcrumbs":"default","ocean_breadcrumbs_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_separator_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_hover_color":"","ocean_display_footer_widgets":"default","ocean_display_footer_bottom":"default","ocean_custom_footer_template":"","ocean_post_oembed":"","ocean_post_self_hosted_media":"","ocean_post_video_embed":"","ocean_link_format":"","ocean_link_format_target":"self","ocean_quote_format":"","ocean_quote_format_link":"post","ocean_gallery_link_images":"on","ocean_gallery_id":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-news","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharewatch.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharewatch.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharewatch.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharewatch.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharewatch.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sharewatch.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharewatch.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharewatch.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharewatch.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharewatch.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}