At the proposal of the Executive Board, an extraordinary general meeting of the Association of International Motor Vehicle Manufacturers (VDIK) today elected Michael Lohscheller as the new VDIK President. He will take office on June 12, 2024. Lohscheller succeeds Reinhard Zirpel, who had already announced in June 2023 that he [...]
Due to statistical base effects, new registrations of passenger cars with alternative drive systems (pure electric drive, hybrids with and without plugs and gas) recorded a strong increase at the beginning of the year. In January, 90,888 vehicles with alternative drive systems were newly registered in Germany, 29.7% more than [...]
The German passenger car market started the year with a plus characterized by special effects. Compared to the same month last year, new registrations grew by 19.1% to 213,553 units. The growth can be explained primarily by the extremely weak January 2023, when sales of electric registrations collapsed due to [...]
Despite weak December figures, significantly more purely electric cars were sold in Germany in 2023 than in the previous year. New registrations of purely battery-electric passenger cars (BEV) rose by 11.4 percent to 524,219 units for the year as a whole. This corresponds to 18.4% of all new passenger car [...]
With 241,883 new passenger car registrations, December closed with a significant drop of 23% compared to the same month last year. A total of around 2.84 million new passenger cars were registered in 2023, meaning that the market as a whole still recorded growth of 7.3% compared to the previous [...]
Zirpel: Federal government should reconsider decision on environmental bonus "2024 will be a year of uncertainty for electric mobility in Germany. With the abolition of the e-car subsidy, the framework conditions for electric cars will unfortunately deteriorate in the coming year. This creates the risk that electric cars will become [...]
Hesse is the federal state in which the most new electric cars were registered in 2023 in relation to the population. Between January and November, 8.6 new electric cars per 1,000 inhabitants were registered there. This is significantly higher than the national average of 5.6 new electric cars per 1,000 [...]
New registrations of passenger cars with alternative drive systems fell by 15.9 per cent in November compared to the same month last year. A total of 245,701 new passenger cars were registered by the Federal Motor Transport Authority, 124,494 of them with alternative drive technologies. This corresponds to an overall [...]
With 245,701 new registrations, the passenger car market in November was unable to reach the level of the same month last year. According to the Federal Motor Transport Authority, 5.7 percent fewer new passenger cars were registered. The VDIK market share in November was 38.5 percent. A total of 2,602,726 [...]
New car registrations rise to 2.85 million in 2023 | E-cars increase by 16 per cent | Market expected to remain stable in 2024 | Clarity on framework conditions for electromobility urgently needed Car manufacturers will succeed in delivering more new cars to customers in 2023 than last year. The [...]