With all data now available, March diesel share is confirmed at 15.1% of new car sales in the region with April coming in at the same figure and unlikely to change much, with just three of the smaller markets’ figures unknown at the time of writing.

The subdued BEV market continued into April and while there is growth in that segment it is modest (+8.4% YTD to April) and so isn’t eating into the ICE/hybrid segment in a big way at the moment. The diesel market is down YoY by just 2.0 percentage points while volume of diesel sales (subject to minor change) looks like being down on the year ago month by fewer than 5k units. To date (April) the market looks to have lost circa 55k sales compared with 2023 at just under 600k sold in the first four months of the year. Germany appears to be the only market that saw diesel sales grow (both in April and YTD) with France and Italy seeing the biggest YTD losses at 18.7k and 17.0k respectively in the same period.

In 2024 diesel has once again moved ahead of BEV in popularity, not seen through much of 2023.