Electric vehicles are gradually gaining an increasing share in the markets of developed countries. They are unlikely to be able to get ahead of cars with a gasoline engine in the coming years, but they have already caught up and surpassed diesel cars - at least in the European market. Such data are given in the report of the research company JATO Dynamic.

The historic moment happened in September 2020. 1.3 million vehicles sold in 27 European countries this month. About 47% of them are gasoline powered cars. The share of electric vehicles and diesel cars is about 25% each, but with an accurate calculation, the first still took the lead: 328 thousand against 323 thousand, respectively.

Interestingly, such figures are associated not only with the growing popularity of eco-cars powered by electricity, but also with a steady decline in sales of diesel cars..

Back in January 2017, cars running on such fuel were the leaders in the European market with a share of almost 50% of the total number of cars sold..

In fairness, it should be noted that in JATO Dynamic, the number of electric vehicles included not only "

Tesla Model 3 turned out to be the best-selling electric cars in Europe: in September, Europeans purchased 15,702 such cars. In second place - Renault ZOE (11023 cars), in third - Volkswagen ID. 3 (7897 pieces).