The best-selling electrics triple their market share since 2019

Electrification in Spain advances at a insufficient pace compared to the rest of the European Union. In fact, according to the Electromobility Barometer prepared by the employers’ association of car and truck manufacturers (Anfac), at the end of 2021, Spain was well behind the European Union average in the global electromobility indicator.

And it is not a problem that can be blamed on vehicle manufacturers, which have already developed and put different fully electric models on the market. The slow progress of electromobility is due to the little recharging infrastructure deployedwhich prevents further progress and penetration of the electric vehicle in the market.

In this way, the National Integrated Energy and Climate Plan (PNIEC) establishes a goal of having three million electrified cars in 2030. At the end of 2021, there were 13,411 public access charging points in Spain, when the goals established 28,240. For this year the objective would have to be tripled, until reaching 45,000, while in 2025 it would have to be multiplied by eight, up to 110,000, and by 25 in 2030, until reaching 340,000 public access points.

In the last three years, the market penetration of the five most sold purely electric models in Spain has gone from representing 0.49% of total sales to 1.74% in the first quarter of this year. However, it should be noted that this increase in the share of the five best-selling electric models has been caused by the market crash in 2020, 2021 and in the current year due to the pandemic and the shortage of semiconductors, not due to a firm commitment to fully electric models, which have maintained a sustained pace in sales. Thus, in 2019 the five most commercialized electric accounted for 6,190 units, in 2020 they reached 7,666 units, last year they represented 8,029 sales and in the first quarter of this year they added 2,868 sales.

In the first quarter of this year, a total of 7,252 electric cars were sold, which is more than double that in the same period of the previous year and a market share of 4.41%.

To put these figures in context, the tenth best-selling model in Spain in the first three months of the year, the Citroën C3, has sold a total of 3,246 units, with a penetration rate of 1.9% of the total market. For their part, the five best-selling electric models in Spain in the first three months of the year have added a total of 2,868 units, according to Anfac data. Thus, the best-selling model in Spain quadruples in deliveries to the most commercialized electric. The five best-selling models are: Tesla Model 3, with a market penetration of 0.68%; the Kia Niro, with a 0.47% share; the Fiat 500, 0.20%; the Kia EV6, with a share of 0.19% and the Hyundai Ioniq 5, with a penetration of 0.18%

If there has been an electric model that has repeated in the last three years as the most commercialized model, that has been the Tesla Model 3. Thus, the smallest model of the North American company was in 2019 and in 2021 the best-selling electric in Spain, with a total of 1,687 and 2,853 units delivered, respectively.

In 2019, the five best-selling electric models in Spain reached 6,190 units, 0.49% of the total number of passenger cars and SUVs sold that year, which reached 1,258,260 vehicles. That year, the total number of electric vehicles sold in Spain reached 10,050 units, which allowed this segment to have a market share of 0.8% of the total number of passenger cars delivered that year.

A year later, after the serious impact on vehicle registrations due to the pandemic, a total of 17,925 fully electric passenger cars were sold in Spain, 78.3% more than in the previous year and had a market share of 2.11%, due to the collapse of sales, which fell by 32.3% , up to 851,211 units delivered. Thus, 42.7% of all electric deliveries corresponded to Renault Zoe, Hyundai Kona, Peugeot 208, Tesla Model 3 or Volkswagen ID. 3.

Last year, passenger car sales increased by just 1% due to a lack of semiconductors that caused several stoppages in factories. However, completely electric passenger cars reached 23,686 units sold, 32.1% more in the interannual rate and a market share of 2.76%. For its part, the five best-selling fully electric models last year reached 8,029 units. In other words, one in three electric vehicles marketed in Spain in 2021 were Tesla Model 3, Kia Niro, Renault Zoe, Dacia Spring or Peugeot 208.

Electricity production accounts for 3.2%

The production of electric cars in Spain accounts for 3.2% of national manufacturing, with 9,397 units assembled in the first two months of the year, which is 12.4% less compared to the same period of the previous year. If all electric vehicles manufactured in our country are added, the figure reaches 15,646, which represents 4.2% of all production in January and February 2022, which represents 28.8% more year-on-year, according to data from Anfac.