We count 141,568 records in February in France, a fall of 0.7% compared to February 2024, which had told a business day more than this year. The score is greater than that of 2023 or 2022, when sales were around 120,000 new private vehicles.
But the trend is not very good: during the first two months of the year, “the French market for new passenger cars has dropped 3.26%,” recalls the automotive platform (PFA), responsible for publishing the figures.
Regarding the composition of sales, electric cars really do not progress: they barely represent 18% of the records, an increase of 1 point compared to January.
“We have clearly assisted two sequences in the month: a wave of electric cars records until 14 from then on the next day, analyzes Marie-Laure Nivot, head of automotive market analysis in AAA data. Therefore, the demand remains largely guided by the purchase aid. These changes in the bonus and the penalties make the market not very readable because you are very readable Early records weigh the dynamics of next month. “
The reform of the ecological bonus is at the source of these variations: vehicles sold until February 14 still benefited from the old most favorable conditions. After this date, it is the new scale (from 2,000 to 4,000 euros to help), imposed by decree at the end of November, which is applied.
Electrical records increased by 59% in the first half of the month, which represents 25% of sales, before falling to 18% at the end of February.
Notable point, it is the professional fleets that extract the figures from the electric, when sales to people fall by 29%, guilt of the social lease that had been very successful last year. It has not been renewed at this time.
Stellantis is back, Renault acts
Renault takes advantage of the acceleration of electricity, with the Renault 5 in particular: the diamond brand still has the greatest volumes in the sector, even if Citroën doubles its volumes in particular thanks to ë-C3.
On the hybrid side, the new large winners (48% of sales), the brands are growing together: microhibited increase by 81% for a year, on the contrary, rechargeable hybrids fall (-45%), due to a more pronounced ecological penalty.
The hardened scale on March 1 should give a new blow to the thermal market: gasoline models decrease 27% for a year and 34% for diesel. These drops affect Peugeot with greater force (- 63 % in gasoline,- 45 % in diesel), Citroën (- 43 % in gasoline,- 37 % in diesel) or Opel (- 54 % in gasoline,- 67 % in diesel).
Logically, Stellantis fell 10.7% for a year, records of 40,667 alec and a market share of 28.7%; Renault is the great winner during this month, with 37,898 sales (+17.6% for a year) and 26.8% market share. It also takes into account that the strong abandonment of Tesla, whose sales fall 26%.
Source: BFM TV
