According to Schmidt Automotive Research data, Chinese passenger car manufacturers are seeing West European new passenger car volumes hit a 100K quarterly ceiling and are failing to move beyond that.
That equates to just below 400K on an annualised basis, of which just half are pure electric. .
Combined Chinese OEMs' share of the total West European market after nine months?
3.1% or an unchanged 3.5% in Q3 compared to the same quarter last year.
Q3 includes a month that sees a seasonality volume boost from the UK on the registration plate changeover in Chinese OEMs' highest volume regional market, accounting for almost 30% of all Chinese models delivered across the region so far this year.
What caused a slow Q1, a boost in Q2 and a consequential slowdown in Q3?
What role will EU tariffs play?
We go into more detail and analysis in our quarterly European Chinese OEM Study with the latest edition published this coming Monday...
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*Western Europe 18 Markets: EU Member States prior to the 2004 enlargement plus EFTA markets Norway, Switzerland, Iceland, plus UK
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