EVs Just Beat Gas And Diesel In Europe’s Biggest Car Market For The First Time
insideevs.com/news/802162/evs-outsold-gas-hybrid-diesel-germany/
Replying to @sanitation@lemmy.today
Splitting gas diesel and hybrids is misleading in this stat. Once EV beats all of the above, true progress is on the horizon.
Replying to @Reality@feddit.org
Not really as they mostly have different rolls.
Diesel is pretty much limited to commercial usage. I’m sure some idiot is driving a diesel truck around but that’s not common.
The remaining are all commuter based yes, but the hybrid at least indicates the market is preferring cost saving measures over traditional gas. I would expect hybrid sales to transition to EVs as they drop in price and as battery tech improves.
Honestly for the average hybrid buyer they likely only pick that over an Eav due to Germany’s insanely high electric prices. Highest in the EU if I recall.
If Germany got there electricity prices under control I’d expect a portion of that market to switch.
Also the last hurdle may be access to charging stations. Charging at home is the most affordable, but there are not many Germans with parking and charging access. I know at my Oma’s apartment they have like 4 parking spots (no charging) per building and then everyone fights for street parking. Infrastructure has a long way to go to make EV viable for the average German.
Replying to @arrow74@lemmy.zip
The hybrids aren’t a consumer choice, companies like BMW, MB and Audi put MHEV technology on their normal diesel and petrol engines these days so they could call them hybrids. It’s a 48V integrated starter-generator, it only really helps when accelerating from a stop, but at the very least it’s cheap to add compared to a proper hybrid battery and extra motors and whatnot.
Diesel is pretty much limited to commercial usage. I’m sure some idiot is driving a diesel truck around but that’s not common.
11.4% pure diesel, but I’d wager a lot of the hybrids are diesel hybrids. From all the big German companies, if you buy a diesel now, it’ll be a diesel mild hybrid at least.
And if you click on the source data link in the article, you’ll find that it was only new Pkw registrations, not Lkw. Personenkraftwagen = people carrying vehicle, Lastkraftwagen = cargo carrying vehicle. And you can even register pickup trucks as N1 instead of M1 making them Lkw rather than Pkw. If you were to register a large American pickup truck, you’d probably better off registering it as a cargo vehicle so you’d be taxed on weight rather than on its gigantic engine.