The latest new registrations data from ACEM, the Brussels based international motorcycle industry trade association, shows new Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) motorcycle registrations at +8.1% for the first nine months of 2019 at 903,586 units, from 836,175 for the corresponding period in 2018.
Italy remains the largest European ICE motorcycle market with 196,956 units (a +5.9% increase on a year-on-year basis), followed by France (159,927 units, +11.2%), Germany (149,726 units, +6.9), Spain (133,491 units, +9.6%) and the UK (84,276 units, +1.5%). Those 'Big Five' markets were worth 80.17% of total ICE registrations in the 28 EU markets in the first nine months of 2019; motorcycle registrations are reported as up in all EU markets.
Among the next largest EU markets, Greece was sixth largest with 30,434 ICE registrations YTD (+12.5% for the period), Austria seventh (25,790 units, +7.1%), followed by Portugal (24,863 units, +7.6%), Belgium (21,198 units, +1.2%) and Poland tenth largest (16,801 new units, +35.3%).
The good news for the small cc market is that Moped registrations in the EU overall continue to increase, having been +7.1% YTD at 196,483 units.
France has been the largest Moped market YTD at 59,000 units (+29.7%), followed by the Netherlands at 40,478 units (-1.8%), Germany third at 21,069 units (+4.6%), Poland fourth at 14,144 units (+8.9%) and Italy fifth at 13,735 units (-7.6%).
The total number of electric units registered in EU markets for the first nine months of 2019 (PTWs - electric Mopeds and Motorcycles) were +66.9% at 56,244 units. However, 46,858 of those units were Mopeds (+64.8%), with Motorcycles growing quickly at +78.31%, but at just 9,386 units, volumes continue to be surprisingly low with price-points, inventory levels, dealer network availability charging point access and increasing use of rental points likely to be the primary reasons for slow take-up.
Some 2,051 electric Quadricycles were registered in EU markets YTD, which is down by -16.4% on the first nine months of 2018.
