PARIS — Renault Group expects to satisfy its 2021 CO2 emissions targets, due to a 20 % mixture of “inexperienced gross sales” that features full-electric, plug-in hybrid and full hybrid hybrid autos, CEO Luca de Meo stated.
That share has greater than doubled for the reason that first quarter of 2020, as Renault model launched a full vary of E-Tech hybrid choices, each plug-in and full hybrid.
One new-to-Europe mannequin, the Renault Arkana compact crossover, has 40 % of gross sales which might be full hybrids, de Meo advised buyers and journalists in the course of the automaker’s first-half earnings name on Friday.
“We’ve 11 % mixture of EVs with mainly three vehicles, the Dacia Spring, the Renault Zoe and the Twingo ZE, which is clearly past our expectations by way of orders,” he stated.
“On the hybrid aspect, we see E-Tech technically changing the combo of diesel in simply six to eight months” since fashions with the drivetrains had been launched, de Meo stated. “That’s an enormous factor as a result of only a few years in the past we had been fearful about what would exchange the lack of diesel.”
A current report from EV market analyst Matthias Schmidt discovered that Renault model’s full-electric and plug-in hybrid gross sales combine was 18 % in western Europe within the first half of 2021. That determine was greater than all mainstream manufacturers aside from Kia, which was at 20 %.
Compared, Volkswagen model was at 16.4 %, Peugeot was at 14.5 %, Ford was at 12.1 %, Citroen was at 5.2 % and hybrid-focused Toyota was at 3.7 %, in keeping with Schmidt.
Renault model’s full-electric gross sales mixture of 11.9 % within the first half in western Europe was among the many highest exterior of Tesla, amongst quantity automakers, trailing Hyundai at 13.6 % and Nissan at 12.9 %, however forward of Kia (11.3 %) and VW (11 %), Schmidt stated.
Renault Group’s three essential full-electric vehicles, the Renault Zoe, Renault Twingo ZE and Dacia Spring, are promoting effectively. The Zoe, available on the market since late 2012, was the third-best-selling EV in western Europe within the first half, in keeping with Schmidt, trailing the Tesla Mannequin 3 (65,976 gross sales) with 30,126 gross sales, primarily even with the brand new VW ID3, at 30,292 gross sales.
The Twingo ZE, launched final yr as an full-electric model of the rear-engine minicar that has been available on the market since 2014, registered 11,393 gross sales within the first half to complete in 18th place, Schmidt reported, primarily tied with the BMW i3 and Mini Electrical.
And Dacia boss Denis Le Vot stated the Chinese language-built Spring minicar had 16,000 agency buyer orders, regardless that retail deliveries wouldn’t begin till September (about 2,000 Springs have been delivered to European fleet clients, principally for short-term rental packages).