Alternative drives in June: Only hybrid vehicles without plugs make gains

In June, 132,861 cars with alternative drive systems (purely electric, hybrids with and without plugs and gas-powered) were newly registered in Germany. This corresponds to a decrease of 0.5 percent compared to the same month last year. The proportion of new registrations with alternative drive systems fell to 44.7% in June, down from 47.7% in June 2023. A total of 645,621 new vehicles with alternative drive systems were registered between January and June. This corresponds to an increase of 2.2% compared to the same period last year. In the first half of 2024, the share of alternative drive systems reached 43.9% after 45.2% in the same period in 2023.

New registrations of purely battery electric passenger cars (BEV) fell by 18.1% to 43,412 units in June. The BEV share of total new passenger car registrations reached 14.6%. In June 2023, it was still 18.9%. Since the beginning of the year, a total of 184,125 BEVs (-16.4%) have been newly registered, accounting for 12.5% of all new passenger car registrations.

New registrations of vehicles with plug-in hybrid drives (PHEV) fell slightly in June. 15,391 PHEVs rolled onto the roads, 3.4% fewer than in the same month last year. If the lower number of working days compared to the previous year is taken into account, this would result in a positive single-digit growth rate. The share of new car registrations fell to 5.2% (June 2023: 5.7%). From January to June 2024, 89,549 PHEVs were newly registered, which is 13.3% more than in the first six months of 2023.

Together, electric vehicles (BEVs, plug-in hybrids and fuel cell vehicles) therefore had a market share of 19.8% in June with 58,803 new registrations. This corresponds to a decrease of 14.7 percent compared to June last year. Since the beginning of the year, the market for electric vehicles has fallen by 8.6%. In the first six months, 273,708 new electric vehicles were registered. The share of the total passenger car market amounted to 18.6 percent.

The VDIK regularly updates the list of electric vehicles of its member companies. The VDIK electric list can be accessed here.

Hybrid vehicles without plugs also achieved positive growth of 16.5% in June. 72,579 new registrations correspond to a 24.4% share of passenger car registrations (June 2023: 22.3%). In the first six months of 2024, hybrid vehicles without plugs increased by 12.3% to 363,966 new registrations, taking their share to 24.7% (January-June 2023: 23.2%).

In addition, 1,458 LPG cars (-30.9%) and 8 natural gas cars (-94.9%) rolled onto the roads in June.

New registrations of combustion passenger cars reached 164,456 units in June, of which 111,768 were petrol (+12.1%) and 52,688 diesel (+12.4%). The share of petrol cars in passenger car registrations was 37.6 percent, while diesel cars accounted for 17.7 percent.  Since the beginning of the year, 550,578 petrol cars (+7.4 percent) and 275,352 diesel cars (+8.9 percent) have been newly registered.