EV sales 落ちる in Europe with VW seeing a 24% 減少（する） and Mercedes also 苦しむing a 低迷, with 製造業者s 非難するing high インフレーション and rising energy costs

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Electric 乗り物 (EV) sales have 急落するd in Europe with Volkswagen seeing a 24 per cent 減少（する） and Mercedes also seeing a 拒絶する／低下する as 製造業者s 非難する high インフレーション and rising energy costs for the 低迷.

As drivers flock 支援する to cheaper 石油 models, the 需要・要求する for 殴打／砲列-力／強力にするd 乗り物s has dwindled and popular car 製造業者s are feeling the 攻撃する，衝突する.

Volkswagen and Audi sell some of the UK's most popular EVs, 含むing the Audi e-tron 範囲 and Volkswagen ID.

But 最近の data 示唆するs that 需要・要求する for 石油 in the UK is climbing at a faster 率 than for electric まっただ中に 関心s over price and 非難する 組織／基盤／下部構造.

Car 巨大（な） Mercedes-Benz also yesterday 報告（する）／憶測d an eight per cent 拒絶する／低下する in EV sales, and 非難するd 'the abrupt end of a 税金 incentive' in Germany and the 漸進的な 段階ing out of an electric model from its Smart brand.?

Drivers are flocking 支援する to 石油 and ディーゼル 乗り物s?まっただ中に 関心s over electric car prices and 非難する 組織／基盤／下部構造

The electric Volkswagen ID is one of the most popular EVs in the UK

Audi's e-tron 範囲 is also a popular model?

Vauxhall Stellantis have U-turned on their 初期の 計画（する）s to switch its best-selling city car to all-electric by 2027

Globally, all-electric sales at the owner of Audi, Skoda and Porsche dropped by three per cent to 136,400, while sales of 燃焼 engine cars rose four per cent to nearly two million.

The boss of Aston ツバメ yesterday said it will keep making 石油 cars until it is 軍隊d to stop by regulators まっただ中に the subdued 需要・要求する for EVs.

The company also 延期するd the 開始する，打ち上げる of its first 殴打／砲列 乗り物 from 2025 to 2026 まっただ中に the 早い 拒絶する／低下する in 需要・要求する.?

Chairman Lawrence Stroll said there wo uld 'always' be 需要・要求する for sports cars with 石油 engines ? such as its V8 and V12 models.

Like its 競争相手s, the 111-year-old 製造業者 will have to grapple with a 禁止（する） on new 石油 or ディーゼル cars in Britain from 2035.

But Stroll has 宣言するd that his 商売／仕事 would not give up on the gas-guzzling 乗り物s until it had to.

'We will continue to make them as long as we are 許すd to make them. There will always be 需要・要求する, albeit that will 縮む,' the 億万長者 sportscar 製造者 said.

He also （人命などを）奪う，主張するd the 押し進める に向かって EVs was more about 'hype' than real and 現在の 消費者 需要・要求する.?

His 発言／述べるs contrast with competitors such as Jaguar and Rolls-Royce, which have 誓約（する）d to be fully electric within six years.?

Stellantis, the car 製造業者 that owns Peugeot, Vauxhall, and Maserati の中で others, also followed 控訴 with Stroll.

It 宣言するd it would 延長する 生産／産物 of its popular 石油-力／強力にするd Fiat Panda until 2030 to 会合，会う 需要・要求するs.

But the U-turn comes after the company made 初期の 計画（する）s to switch its best-selling city car to all-electric by 2027.?

The 減少（する）-off in EV 需要・要求する comes as 政治家，政治屋s in the UK roll 支援する 補助金s and 再考する ambitious 的s to 捨てる 石油 and ディーゼル 乗り物s.

In September, the UK 総理大臣 Rishi Sunak 押し進めるd 支援する a 最終期限 to 封鎖する new 石油 and ディーゼル sales in the UK from 20130 to 2035.?

Incentives for drivers buying new EVs were scrapped in 2022.

によれば 人物／姿／数字s 明らかにする／漏らすd by the Society of モーター 製造業者s and 仲買人s last week,?EV 登録s were only 3.8 per cent higher last month than they were a year earlier, while 石油-engine sales climbed 9.2 per cent.

But even with the rising 需要・要求する for 石油 cars, EU 公式の／役人s are deciding whether to to 器具／実施する a 類似の 禁止（する） on 石油 and ディーゼル cars to make way for the use of synthetic 燃料s that can 力／強力にする a 燃焼 engine.

製造業者s such as Volkswagen and Mercedes are feeling the heat regarding their EV sales as carmakers across Europe 直面する a 殺到する in 競争.

Chinese-made electric 乗り物s - 含むing brands like BYD - 申し込む／申し出 殴打／砲列-力／強力にするd cars that are 意味ありげに cheaper than Western 競争相手s.

An 調査 by Bloomberg 明らかにする／漏らすd that 専門家s at Germany's Kiel 学校／設ける est imated that BYD has received over £2.9billion in 補助金s in 最近の years.

'The Chinese carmakers have become predatory in their own 国内の market,' said Matthias Schmidt, an 独立した・無所属 自動車 分析家.?

'ーするために 保持する market 株 western carmakers have to 削除する prices 同様に.'

Almost every model made by? BYD has had its sale price 削減（する）, …を伴ってd by the スローガン 'electricity is cheaper than oil' - as a price war continues to 激怒（する） in 中国, which is the largest EV market in the world.?

Aston ツバメ 押し進めるd 支援する the 解放（する） of the 殴打／砲列-力／強力にするd 乗り物 from 2025 to 2026. It is still planning to 配達する its first plug-in hybrid supercar, the Valhalla (pictured), later this year

Chinese-made electric 乗り物s - 含むing brands like BYD - 申し込む／申し出 殴打／砲列-力／強力にするd cars that are 意味ありげに cheaper than Western 競争相手s?

Several major car 製造者s, 含むing EV market leader Tesla, have pulled 支援する on 投資s

It comes after Tesla sales 急落（する），激減（する）d more than seven per cent at the beginning of the month, after it 報告（する）／憶測d its first year-on-year sales 減少（する） since 2020.

The world's most 価値のある 自動車製造業者 配達するd 386,810 乗り物s in the first three months of the year, 負かす／撃墜する 20 per cent from the previous ４半期/4分の1 and almost nine per cent from the same period in 2023.?

In February, Apple also cancelled work on its electric car 事業／計画（する） dubbed 巨人.

Apple's electric car had been planned since at least 2014, and 噂するs around what it would entail 発展させるd over that period.

Though its 初期の 計画（する）s were to create a fully 自治権のある 乗り物, it 最終的に pared 支援する 計画（する）s.?

(n)役員／(a)執行力のあるs were also 報道によれば 関心d that at the 的 price of $100,000 利益（をあげる） 利ざやs would be precariously わずかな／ほっそりした.

But not all 製造業者s are struggling.

BMW yesterday 発表するd that its EV sales rose by a staggering 28 per cent in the first three months of the year.