The European passenger car industry is disarray, with one half focussing on the fact that car sales are going to be down between 20% and 30% for 2020, but others focussed on the Electric Vehicle side of the business, aghast that across Europe EV car sales have doubled. This sudden rise in the percentage of cars that are either Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs) or Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs) seems to be defying expectations. People are used to expressing EV sales as a percentage of the total market and usually in single figures, i.e. 1% to 2% of the car market. But in the UK, Germany and France where showrooms have been closed for most of November, BEVs and PHEVs…