Chinese manufacturers from the likes of SAIC's MG brand, or BYD, which jointly accounted for two in three of all Chinese new passenger cars entering the West European new passenger car market during the opening month of 2025, witnessed the BEV proportion of those new vehicles sink to a new recent low of just 35.7% according to Schmidt Automotive Research's own exclusive research published in the monthly European Electric Car Study.
While MG saw less than 20% of their opening month's regional new car registrations accounted for by a BEV, BYD saw their share fall to 69% thanks to the roll-out of the Chinese brand's Seal-U PHEV model, which doesn't see the 17% levy applied to those models.
SAIC, which didn't cooperate with the investigation, faces a higher 35.3% tariff on all BEV models imported to the 27-member state single market area.
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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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