GlobalData* said today that the 2023 full-year new car diesel share in Western Europe is confirmed at 15.8% with 1,830,000 units sold for a 15.8% market share. January 2024 was another month of low MoM variation in the share of new car sales in the region that were diesel at a provisional 15.5% share with a few minor markets yet to report. This is ~3% drop year-over-year as diesel engines continue to slowly fade away.

“All markets lost diesel share in January on an annualized comparison basis, but Germany saw volume of diesel sales increase by 2500 units while several other markets also saw modest volume increases,” the GlobalData European Light Vehicle Powertrain Forecasting Team said. AutoInformed notes that Germany is the home of Bosch and Mercedes-Benz, both with long pioneering histories in diesel breakthroughs.