End of year motorcycle registrations (classed as any PTW over 50cc) across Europe’s five biggest markets – Italy, France, Germany, Spain and the UK – recieved a strong boost in the last quarter of 2024, boosting total full year registrations by more than 10% to nearly 1.2 million units. It was the seventh consecutive year of increased sales.
ACEM secretary general Anotonio Perlot’s previous prediction of registrations slowing down in the last quarter, despite the consumer interest created by the autumn bike shows, proved to be totally wrong. In the event, last quarter sales were up by 89,069, or more than 50%. This was almost entirely ascribed to an avalanche of pre-registrations for bikes not compliant with the new Euro 5+ emissions regulations, which came into force in January.
Electric-powered registrations for both motorcycle and moped markets continued to slide. The battery moped market is now the smallest it has been for six years, and for motorcycles, electrics make up only 2.45% of the overall market.