An employee works on the Bluecar electric car assembly line at the Renault factory in Dieppe
Registrations of new cars in France decreased in June by 4.8% at an annual rate, according to data published Monday by the Automobile Platform (PFA), in a market now dominated by gasoline-electric hybrid engines and where electric pure treading water.
There were 181,712 private vehicles registered in France last month, the PFA said. June had 20 working days this year, compared to 22 last year.
Over the first six months of the year, the French automobile market remained up 2.82% with 914,890 registrations.
New car registrations by the Stellantis group, which includes the Peugeot, Citroën, DS and Opel brands, fell by 13.16% last month compared to a year earlier.
The Renault group (Renault, Dacia and Alpine brands) saw its registrations in France decrease by 3.77% at an annual rate in June.
Electric cars, for which demand is currently showing signs of slowing in Europe, have seen their market share in France decline to 17.4% over six months, compared to 17.6% over the first five months of the year. , but while remaining higher than the 15.5% of the first half of 2023.
The energy transformation of vehicles is more spectacular when we look at hybrid models, combining a gasoline engine with an electric motor, which now dominate sales with a market share of 38.7%, ahead of gasoline alone (32 .1%), whereas a year earlier, the balance of power was diametrically opposed.
(Written by Jean Terzian, with Gilles Guillaume)
