[HN Gopher] France Hits Record 19.2% EV Share in December - Up A...
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       France Hits Record 19.2% EV Share in December - Up Almost 6x Year
       on Year
        
       Author : finphil
       Score  : 31 points
       Date   : 2021-01-02 21:24 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (cleantechnica.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (cleantechnica.com)
        
       | Animats wrote:
       | Is that new registrations, or total vehicles registered?
        
         | wcoenen wrote:
         | The title of the pie chart in the article is "December 2020
         | France passenger auto registrations".
        
       | pingou wrote:
       | A reason may also be that starting on January 1st, the state
       | gives you 6000 euros if you buy an electric car, compared to 7000
       | in 2020.
       | 
       | Still, there is definitely a trend here.
        
         | rsynnott wrote:
         | Worth noting that the top three cars are all new in 2020 (in
         | the Zoe's case a major improvement on the existing model, in
         | the other two cases brand new). I suspect a big part of it is
         | that electric cars that people actually want have finally
         | arrived.
        
         | da_big_ghey wrote:
         | Another potential factot is that fewer/different people are
         | buying cars these days, and that group may be more prone to buy
         | electric cars. A pie chart can change by growing one piece or
         | by shrinking another.
        
       | valuearb wrote:
       | Is electricity significantly cheaper in France because of the
       | abundance of nuclear? Or are nuclear costs high there as well?
        
         | rsynnott wrote:
         | Not super-cheap, but on the cheaper end for Western Europe:
         | https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...
        
       | hartator wrote:
       | EV or hybrid?
        
         | ggreer wrote:
         | The third sentence in the article:
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         | > The December combined plugin share of 19.2% was dominated by
         | battery electric vehicles (BEVs) at 11.1% of the total auto
         | market, with plugin hybrid vehicles (PHEVs) taking 8.1%.
         | 
         | The article also has a chart showing the breakdown.[1]
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         | 1.
         | https://cleantechnica.com/files/2021/01/December-2020-France...
        
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