The European passenger car market continued its recovery in April, almost reaching one million new registrations .
The plug-in electric car segment expanded slightly faster, gaining a bit of market share. According todata, shared by Jose Pontes, in April over 197,000 new plug-in electric cars were registered in Europe, which is roughly 25 percent more than a year ago. That's also 21 percent of the total volume. For us, an even more important thing is that the all-electric segment expanded by 50 percent year-over-year to over 120,000, taking 13 percent of the total volume. Plug-in hybrids, on the other hand, noted a 4 percent decrease.Total: 197,950 and 21% shareSo far this year, more than 867,000 passenger plug-in electric cars were registered in Europe, which is about 20 percent more than a year ago.PHEVs: about *0.