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    Focussing on the European plug-in passenger car market and its future trajectory, reinforced by exclusively collated high-quality monthly data.

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    Established by Berlin-based European automotive industry market analyst, Matthias Schmidt, delivering exclusive incisive trends and developments in the global automotive industry, to the automotive industry – and stakeholders – for approaching 20-years.

    Offering key strategic insights focussing heavily on the electric car market, including analysis of exclusive collated market data with in-depth guidance, providing you with a strategic advantage over your competitors’.
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    Matthias previously served as the Chief European Analyst, at Automotive Industry Data in the UK, with a demographic including CEOs, product-planners and policymakers among others.

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    Publisher of Europe's most comprehensive data-driven, trend spotting monthly industry flash electric car market report, the European Electric Car Report

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    Matthias Schmidt

    European Automotive Market Analyst @ Schmidt Automotive Research
    Automotive Analyst with 15 years of experience serving the highest-ranking executives and decision-makers in and around the industry Member of @thefactory Berlin Automotive.

    Latest posts from Schmidt Automotive Research

    January 16th update

    Preview: monthly market intelligence

    Live streaming a fast-paced major sporting event while the neighbours next door tune in via a conventional TV connection can often cause a confused picture when screams of jubilation – or groans of anguish – are heard moments before it becomes clear what is happening. Booming electric car deliveries in the final months of 2022, leading to an almost...
    Reported by Schmidt Automotive Research

    Last orders! The EU calls time on patent No. 37435

    On January 29, 1886, Carl Benz applied for a petrol-powered vehicle patent, which effectively democratised personal mobility up until today. With around 90 million new light vehicles fitted with an internal combustion engine entering the world's roads each year, 149 years since its birth, time will finally be called on patent 37435 across Europe. Last month the European Union...

    Matthias Schmidt

    European Automotive Market Analyst @ Schmidt Automotive Research
    3 minute read |

    Mondial de l’Auto – promised little, yet delivered lots

    Look beyond the extremely diluted exhibitor list at only the second European Auto Show to take place since COVID struck in 2020, and the number of manufacturers is thinning out faster than a middle-aged man trying to comb over a receding hairline. Glancing over the attendees at this week's Paris show, one could have been forgiven for avoiding the...

    Matthias Schmidt

    European Automotive Market Analyst @ Schmidt Automotive Research
    3 minute read |

    Is China’s tiger about to bite?

    Coinciding with the year of the tiger, Chinese OEMs, once having been the butt of all automotive jokes following failed crash tests and poor quality standards, now feel confident enough to give it another shot with a fully-charged line-up. The class of 2022 is almost unrecognisable from those models arriving 15 years ago.

    Matthias Schmidt

    European Automotive Market Analyst @ Schmidt Automotive Research
    3 minute read |

    European Electric Car Market Intelligence Study Q2 2022

    Q2 West European BEV volumes fell over opening quarter levels, impacting BEV penetration growth as Tesla witnessed regional quarterly volumes fall to their lowest levels in two years on the back of their Chinese Covid shutdown.
    Reported by Schmidt Automotive Research

    H1 West European electric passenger car market

    Mention the auto industry nowadays, and a relatively young-looking Californian electric car manufacturer will surely be heard. Present on the European market for a decade with a genuine own creation, the Model S (although it shared Mercedes parts thanks to its then shareholder) got the ball rolling.

    Matthias Schmidt

    European Automotive Market Analyst @ Schmidt Automotive Research
    3 minute read |

    Western Europe BEV market continues to witness slow growth

    Provisional Schmidt Automotive Research data suggests that the West European pure electric BEV new passenger car market continued to tread water this year. BEVs accounted for 12.5 per cent of the total new car market across the 18 West European market region monitored by the European Electric Car Study during the opening half of 2022.

    Matthias Schmidt

    European Automotive Market Analyst @ Schmidt Automotive Research
    3 minute read |

    What happens once the government stabilisers are detached?

    Like learning to ride a bike, the European electric car industry has been supported by various stabilisers over the years. These have provided confidence through generous consumer purchase subsidies on the one side and tax incentives on the other, while an additional regulatory stick in the form of CO2 fleet average targets keeps OEMs on their toes. Those stabilisers...

    Matthias Schmidt

    European Automotive Market Analyst @ Schmidt Automotive Research
    3 minute read |

    West EU PEV market hits 0.5 million units after 5-months

    For the 11th consecutive month, monthly registrations of new plug-in passenger cars across W-Europe continued to account for >20% of the total market up to May 2022 according to the monthly European Electric Car Study's data.

    Matthias Schmidt

    European Automotive Market Analyst @ Schmidt Automotive Research
    3 minute read |

    Pause for breath as West EU EV market screeches to a halt?

    Babies learning to take their first steps inevitably take a tumble after making those first initial paces. In a similar vein, Europe's electric car market stumbled slightly in April. Having appeared ever more confident since European CO2 fleet average emissions increased in 2020/21 (95g/km NEDC cycle) – following 130g/km in the half-decade period before that – the market is...

    Matthias Schmidt

    European Automotive Market Analyst @ Schmidt Automotive Research
    4 minute read |

    Nordics on track to wave bye to ICEs first?

    Over 100 different pure electric (BEV) models have entered Europe's most Northern market over the past decade, contributing to nearly every fifth car on Norway's roads today (15.9% BEV parc January 1, 2022) motoring along silently. The half millionth model will enter the 2.9m car market during this year's second quarter.

    Matthias Schmidt

    European Automotive Market Analyst @ Schmidt Automotive Research
    3 minute read |

    West EU BEV market powers on despite hurricane headwinds

    Despite Western Europe's pure electric passenger car market falling on unpredicted times with hurricane headwinds coming in the form of the continued semi-conductor shortage, the Ukrainian wire harness impact, raw material price concerns, and covid shutdowns in China, BEV volumes across the monitored 18 market region achieved the third-best quarter on record. The other two quarters with higher volumes...

    Matthias Schmidt

    European Automotive Market Analyst @ Schmidt Automotive Research
    1 minute read |

    European Electric Car Market Intelligence Study

    This report provides a forecast of the medium to long-term transition to EVs, taking into account the current geopolitical uncertainty caused by the war in Ukraine.
    Reported by Schmidt Automotive Research

    The new normal is the abnormal, but are EVs set to benefit?

    Following on from Covid shutdowns in 2020, the resulting semiconductor shortages in 2021 and now the war in Europe and raw material and fuel price rises as well as wire harness stoppage multipliers, the European auto industry now requires both a plan B, C and not forgetting D.

    Matthias Schmidt

    European Automotive Market Analyst @ Schmidt Automotive Research
    4 minute read |

    The European Electric Car Report Edition 12 Full Year 2021

    This report delivers key and incisive trends and developments in the European EV market, both to the industry and its stakeholders.
    Reported by Schmidt Automotive Research

    The European Electric Car Report Edition 10 – 2021

    This report delivers key and incisive trends and developments in the European EV market, both to the industry and its stakeholders.
    Reported by Schmidt Automotive Research

    The European Electric Car Report Edition 8 – 2021

    This report delivers key and incisive trends and developments in the European EV market, both to the industry and its stakeholders.
    Reported by Schmidt Automotive Research

    The European Electric Car Report Edition 6 – 2021

    This report delivers key and incisive trends and developments in the European EV market, both to the industry and its stakeholders.
    Reported by Schmidt Automotive Research

    The European Electric Car Report Edition 3 – 2021

    This report delivers key and incisive trends and developments in the European EV market, both to the industry and its stakeholders.
    Reported by Schmidt Automotive Research

    The European Electric Car Report Edition 2 – 2021

    This report delivers key and incisive trends and developments in the European EV market, both to the industry and its stakeholders.
    Reported by Schmidt Automotive Research

    The European Electric Car Report Edition 1 – 2021

    This report delivers key and incisive trends and developments in the European EV market, both to the industry and its stakeholders.
    Reported by Schmidt Automotive Research

    The European Electric Car Report Edition 12 Full Year 2020

    This report delivers key and incisive trends and developments in the European EV market, both to the industry and its stakeholders.
    Reported by Schmidt Automotive Research

    The European Electric Car Report Edition 11 – 2020

    This report delivers key and incisive trends and developments in the European EV market, both to the industry and its stakeholders.
    Reported by Schmidt Automotive Research

    The European Electric Car Report Edition 3 – 2020

    This report delivers key and incisive trends and developments in the European EV market, both to the industry and its stakeholders.
    Reported by Schmidt Automotive Research

    The European Electric Car Report Edition 8 – 2020

    This report delivers key and incisive trends and developments in the European EV market, both to the industry and its stakeholders.
    Reported by Schmidt Automotive Research

    The European Electric Car Report Edition 10 – 2020

    This report delivers key and incisive trends and developments in the European EV market, both to the industry and its stakeholders.
    Reported by Schmidt Automotive Research

    The European Electric Car Report Edition 09 – 2020

    This report delivers key and incisive trends and developments in the European EV market, both to the industry and its stakeholders.
    Reported by Schmidt Automotive Research

    The European Electric Car Monthly Study

    ICEbreaker – BEVs accounted for >20% new cars in December – plug-ins 31.6% – in end of year compliance push

    Matthias Schmidt

    European Automotive Market Analyst @ Schmidt Automotive Research
    3 minute read |