Issue 131 | September 2020

Electric vehicles accounted for a record market share of 18% of all European passenger cars sold in July, while the negative effect of the pandemic continued to ease, with total volumes of new cars sold across Europe down by just 4% year on year.

Accountancy firm Deloitte has predicted that sales of electric vehicles (EVs) will reach 31.1 million by 2030, 10 million more than it originally forecast, while sales of petrol and diesel cars may already have reached their peak during the course of the current pandemic.

This year’s Fleet Europe Summit on November 17 and 18 will be held online, rather than as a physical event – and Fleet Logistics will once again be involved. Registration for the event opened on 7 September.

Growing interest in and sales of electric vehicles have been confirmed by the latest figures from ACEA which show that EVs took a 7.2% share of all European new car sales in the second quarter of this year.