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Europe’s BEV market is booming, but not fast enough to match China’s industrial shift
By Raphael Wellmann, Ray Wills, and Peter Newman
Europe likes to think of itself as an EV leader. The data tells a more complicated story: Europe is neither leading nor lagging — it sits mid-pack, improving steadily but moving slower than the countries now setting the pace of global electrification.
The timing of that message matters. Europe posted its strongest half-year EV result on record, EU industrial policy chief Stéphane Séjourné warned that the European car industry is in “mortal danger” from Chinese competition. June was stronger again, with BEVs reaching roughly one in four new cars across Europe — real progress, but still well short of the home-market scale China has already achieved. New Transport & Environment analysis showed charging infrastructure now comfortably outpacing EV sales across almost the entire bloc.
