It is the end of an era: hybrid cars, about to surpass gasoline cars in sales in Spain

Little by little, the Spanish automobile market is transforming. And it does so through the registration of new cars -whether thermal, hybrid cars or electrical -, which month after month is publishing the ANFAC manufacturers’ association.

And although in Spain there are still many vehicles that are more than 10 and 15 years old, with the damage that this means for C02 emissions; Registrations are also showing the trend of marketthat It is advancing inexorably towards the electrification of mobility. Although, for now, this is partial and is transferred to the street mainly in the form of hybrid cars.

Sales of new technology cars, 47.5% of the total

In this way, if in Spain they were sold a total of 83,472 passenger cars and TTs -4.9% more compared to the same period of the previous year-, 47.5% of sales corresponded to hybrid, plug-in hybrid, electric and gas cars.

The hybrid cars They are the big winners within this group of new engines. And, in this way, they have managed to enroll 35,365 units or, what is the same, the 34.06% of the total of passenger cars and TTs sold in Spain in October.

This is a figure higher than the traditional gasoline thermal vehicleswho enrolled in October 28,503 units and reached a share of 27.45%. But this overshoot has been occurring for some months now.

The total surpassing of hybrid cars over gasoline cars, as the

The truly important thing comes when analyzing the market share figures so far in 2024.

And if there gasoline vehicles still maintain, with 323,029 units sold, an accumulated quota of 32.33% %; hybrid cars are about to overtake them.

Specifically, the hybrid cars They have, with the October registrations, some cumulative sales of 314,318, that leave their market share so far this year in the 31.46%.

For this reason, and given the commercial panorama of recent months, it is a mere matter of time – one or two months, perhaps – before hybrids become the best-selling cars in Spain.

Plug-in hybrid cars and electric cars, 12% of the total market

Along with the growth in sales of hybrid cars, it should also be noted the progress, although slight, in the sales of electrified passenger cars. This is, plug-in hybrid cars and electric cars.

In total, and last October, they were sold in our country 9,908 vehicles of this type1.4% less than 12 months ago.

However, that figure, which represented 11.86% of total sales for the month of October; increases the number of these vehicles so far this year to 90,137 units sold. Which represents 0.4% more than in the same period of the previous year and, so far in 2024, leaves the market share of plug-in hybrid and electric cars at 10.88%.

Specifically, last October Sales of electric cars in Spain reached 4,768 units5.7% less than in the same month of 2023. But, in exchange, those of plug-in hybrid cars grew by 3%, registering 5,140 sales in October.