COMMENT: List prices have exploded - bring on the middleweights
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Italian new motorcycle registration growth still strongest in Europe ................................................................................ Page 6
BMW: Another record first quarter for Bavaria's 'Big Blue' ....................................................................................................... Page 12
Is Kymco's Ionex system the answer to E-charging and range limitations? ........................................................ Page 14
JUNE/JULY 2018
ISSUE #143
STATZONE 6-8
EU motorcycle registrations up by
+4.7 percent Q1; total PTWs -6.1%
were down by -40.2 percent (37,071
units) due in large part to the moped
Euro 3/Euro 4 transition that became
effective on January 1, 2018. The
largest moped market in Europe was
France (10,102 units, -41.5%),
followed by the Netherlands (8,856
units, -35.3%), Italy (3,867 units,
-19.4%), Belgium (3,458 units, -14.8%)
and Spain (3,107 units, - 21.4%).
Combined registrations of electric
mopeds, motorcycles and quadricycles
reached 8,281 units during the first
three months of 2018. This represents
an increase of +51.2% compared to
the same period of 2017. The largest
European market in terms of volume
was France with a total of 2,150 electric
vehicles, followed by the Netherlands
(1,703 units), Belgium (1,472 units),
Spain (1,258 units) and Italy (592
units).
In motorcycle terms, a total of 1,726
electric motorcycles were registered in
the EU between January and March
2018 (+118.5% on a year-on-year
basis). The largest European markets for
electric motorcycles are France (732
units, +228%), Spain (311 units,
+161%), the Netherlands (202 units,
+304%) and Germany (173 vehicles,
-10.4%).
Registrations of electric mopeds
reached 5,824 units (+50.8%
compared to the first three months of
2017).
2017
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ACEM, the Brussels based
international motorcycle industry
trade association, says that
combined registrations of new
motorcycles and mopeds in the EU
(total
Powered
Two
Wheelers/PTWs) reached 240,924
units during the first quarter of
2018, representing a decrease of
-6.1% compared to same period
of the previous year.
Registrations increased in some of the
largest European markets, including
Spain (32,170 motorcycles and
mopeds, +11.5%) and the UK (24,609
units, +5.6%), remained stable in Italy
(49,993 units, -0.6%) and decreased in
France (47,081 units, -8%) and
Germany (36,788 units, -13.5%).
Motorcycle registrations were up by
+4.7% (203,853 units) during the first
3 months of the year. With 46,126 units
(+1.4%), Italy remains the largest
European motorcycle market, followed
by France (36,979 motorcycles,
+9.1%), Germany (36,058
motorcycles, +1.9%), Spain (29,063
motorcycles, +16.7%) and the UK
(23,485 motorcycles, +7.4%).
Registrations in the moped segment
25 YEARS OF
MONSTERS
MOTORCYCLE
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