Global automotive market report 20182019 International Automotive Consumer Study has been added to your bookmarks. In spite of the emissions scandal and cartel allegations seeing diesel market place share drop from 46.9 % in H1 2016 to 41.three % in H1 2017, new vehicle sales totaled two.4 million in the first six months of the year, up +two.1 percent year-on-year. Sales are forecast to grow +two.two percent in 2017 and +1.7 % in 2018. The flexibility of German companies, which remain amongst the most profitable in the planet, to switch to diesel options will determine medium-term growth, specifically for European sales. As a worldwide leader in engine patents and R&D spending – in 2015, the German automotive market invested $37. billion compared to Japan’s $29.four billion – electromobility and hybrid driving systems have been a major concentrate of this shift. Electric vehicle sales, boosted by the diesel scandal, surged by +115.five % to 22,453 cars in H1 2017 and are forecast to exceed 50,000 this year.

However, the fat years” in the automotive sector are over for now. Rather, technological, economic and political modifications are now announcing hard instances for the industry, which ought to substantially minimize profits and returns over the coming years. In specific, new players from the digital and mobility planet will in future increasingly compete with established automotive producers with new company models,” CAM mentioned.

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