Diesel is on the decline in passenger cars, but the fuel is still very much alive in delivery vans. Figures from the European trade association ACEA show that more than 90 percent of the delivery vans purchased in the European Union last year have a self-igniter under the hood. However, the market share of diesel is shrinking.
To be precise, diesel in the 2021 European van market accounted for 90.2 percent of all purchases. In 2020, diesel still accounted for 92.4 percent of the market, so that means that the market share is shrinking somewhat. The share of petrol-powered commercial vehicles is 3.8 percent, with the largest increase being seen in ‘electrically rechargeable vans, which include both electric and plug-in hybrid powertrains. That market share rose from 2 percent in 2020 to 3 percent in 2021. The share of hybrid delivery vans also increased: from 0.9 percent in 2020 to 1.6 percent in 2021.
In concrete sales figures, sales of diesel vans rose by 6.2 percent to 1,408,376 vans. With the delivery vans on petrol, it went a lot faster, as witnessed by the increasing market share: sales of these went up by 20.5 percent to 58,757 units. Of the electrically rechargeable vans, 63.2 percent more units were registered in 2021 than in the previous year, representing a number of 46,853 units. The hybrids even more than doubled by 101.5 percent to 25,496 copies.
Sales of commercial vehicles have been on the rise in the past year. Despite the chip shortage, which affects the sale of passenger cars in particular, the number of newly registered delivery vans rose by 8.5 percent in 2021 to almost 1.6 million units.
– Thanks for information from Autoweek.nl