Renault Double Stellantis on the French market in the first half

Renault has doubled Stellantis in the first half of in a French market in slow motion cars, according to figures published Tuesday by the automotive platform (PFA), which brings together manufacturers and equipment manufacturers.

The Stellantis group has slowed down the drop in sales at -7.98% in June. But he was overtaken by Renault, new leader in new cars on the French market in the first half. The diamond group ( +5.09% in June, +2.21% on the semester), which seeks a successor to its boss Luca de Meo, is notably propelled by the success of its economic brand Dacia.

All brands and energies combined, new car sales recorded a new withdrawal in June in France (-6.72% over a year), with only 169,504 registrations over the first six months of 2025, with 842.203 registrations, the market is down 7.94%.

Tesla slows down her fall

And it was more than a quarter of sales less than in the first half of 2019, last year before the Cavid pandemic that had marked the start of a clear flexibility. “It is the sixth consecutive month of decline, but the start of this sequence dates back more than a year, only interrupted by an artificial rebound in December” commented Marie-Laure Nivot from the AAA Data cabinet.

Sales of electric cars (-12%) have dropped more than the market and caps 17% of transactions in June. They no longer find thanks to individuals (-38% on this channel), while business fleets still accelerate their energy transition and increase their volumes by 51% with this engine, according to AAA Data.

Tesla, whose sales have been in free fall in recent months, especially due to the positions of her boss Elon Musk (-39.59% in the first half), slowed down in June (-10.04%). “The new scale of the ecological bonus which has just been announced and then the electric leasing expected at the start of the school year let hope still hope for a trend reversal for electricity”in Souligné MME Nivot.