It’s a known fact that most automakers still use electric cars as halo vehicles, just to show off their green credentials and lure car buyers into showrooms, without a real intention of selling them in high numbers.
Legacy automakers tend to build decent electric cars, but then undermine them with high prices and/or poor availability.
Since only Tesla is doing direct sales, a good way to know if an automaker is somewhat interested in selling electric cars is to check how many units are available at dealerships.
It’s no secret that the Renault ZOE is one of the electric cars with the lowest average delivery time (less than 3 months) in Europe and this is decisive to its sales success (nowadays usually around 10.000 monthly units).
Hyundai is also determined to become the biggest supplier of electric cars in Europe and availability of the Kona Electric vastly improved since its production started in Czech Republic.
Below I compiled a list with the number of new units available for each model at Autoscout24 (Europe’s biggest online vehicle marketplace).
This list shows us how depressing poor the availability is for most electric cars in Europe.
However, some models of this list are newcomers and I expect that availability will gradually improve over the coming months.
Moreover, next year automakers will be forced to sell more electric cars in Europe to comply with EU emissions regulations and avoid hefty fines.
