2023 half-year motorcycle registrations data from key European markets
The latest motorcycle registrations data from ACEM, covering the first six months of 2023, shows that all the major European markets fared far better than the UK. While domestic registrations faltered by 0.9%, France, Germany, Spain and Italy all increased, with improvements of up to 19.1%. The overall result was an upswing of 11.3% compared to 2022.
The moped sector had more challenging results for its biggest players – Belgium managed a marginal gain of 2.8%, but all other big markets tumbled: Italy down 12.7%, Spain down 12.8%, France down 18.0%, and Germany and the Netherlands down a whopping 44.3% and 46.6% respectively.
The electric-powered motorcycle market saw an overall decline of 8.1% to 19,375 units for the six months. Germany was the big success story, with a 33.3% increase, but all other markets were in negative territory: France down 7.2%, and Italy and Spain down 19.6% each, but none came close to the UK’s slump in battery-powered sales of 38.4%. E-mopeds fared even worse, with an overall decline of 22.3%. Belgium and Spain saw modest increases, but France and the Netherlands fell – by 55.3% in the latter’s case.
