New registrations in the German passenger car market rose by 6.1% to 297,329 vehicles in June compared to the same month last year. However, June last year had two more working days than June 2024. 1,471,641 new passenger cars were therefore registered in the first half of 2024, which corresponds [...]
New registrations of purely battery electric passenger cars (BEV) fell by 30.6% year-on-year to 29,708 units in May. The BEV share of total new passenger car registrations reached 12.6%. In May 2023, it was still 17.3%. Since the beginning of the year, a total of 140,713 BEVs (-15.9%) have been [...]
Yesterday, Michael Lohscheller became the new President of the Association of International Motor Vehicle Manufacturers (VDIK). Lohscheller had already been unanimously elected VDIK President by an extraordinary general meeting in February. He succeeds Reinhard Zirpel, who did not stand for re-election after eight years in office. On taking office, Lohscheller [...]
The passenger car market in Germany declined slightly in May compared to the same month last year. New registrations fell by 4.3% to 236,425 units (May 2023: 247,000). In the first five months of 2024, a total of 1,174,312 new passenger cars were registered, an increase of 5.2% compared to [...]
In April, 106,041 cars with alternative drive systems (purely electric, hybrids with and without plugs and gas-powered) were newly registered in Germany. This corresponds to an increase of 17.4 percent compared to the same month last year. However, April had three more working days this year than in 2023. The [...]
The passenger car market in Germany grew strongly in April compared to the same month last year by almost 20 percent to 243,102 new registrations. However, there were three more working days in the past month than in April last year. With the same number of working days, growth would [...]
In March, 115,713 cars with alternative drive systems (purely electric, hybrids with and without plugs and gas-powered) were newly registered in Germany. This is 10.6 percent less than in March last year, which, however, had three more working days than this year. In the first three months, a total of [...]
The German passenger car market recorded a year-on-year decline of 6.2% to 263,844 new registrations in March. However, March 2023 had three more working days. In the first quarter of 2024, passenger car registrations rose by 4.2% year-on-year to 694,785 units. In contrast, new registrations of purely battery electric vehicles [...]
New registrations of vehicles with alternative drive systems (pure electric drive, hybrids with and without plugs and gas) grew by 6.2 percent to 98,124 passenger cars in February 2024 compared to February last year. Adjusted for the additional working day compared to February of the previous year, the increase was [...]
The German passenger car market grew by 5.4% in February compared to the same month last year. A total of 217,388 new passenger cars were registered in the country, with February having one more working day than the previous year. Since the beginning of the year, 430,941 new passenger car [...]