New car registrations in Germany in August fell by 27.8 percent to 197,322 vehicles compared to the same month last year. Battery electric vehicles (BEVs) were hit even harder. New registrations of BEVs recorded their sharpest ever decline compared to the same month last year. To be more precise, only [...]
This year's summer meeting of the Association of International Motor Vehicle Manufacturers (VDIK) gave a first foretaste of the IAA Transportation. Under the motto “Nutzis go electric”, members of the association showed what is already possible today in the field of alternative drive systems for commercial vehicles. In addition to [...]
André Schmidt takes over as President of the Association of International Motor Vehicle Manufacturers (VDIK) as former Vice President. Michael Lohscheller is moving to Polestar as global CEO and has therefore stepped down as VDIK President. Michael Lohscheller: “The decision to work for Polestar as global CEO is an interesting [...]
In July, 111,724 passenger cars with alternative drive systems (purely electric, hybrids with and without plugs and gas-powered vehicles) were newly registered in Germany. This corresponds to a drop of 4.8 percent compared to the same month last year. The proportion of new registrations with alternative drive systems fell to [...]
New registrations in the German passenger car market fell by 2.1% to 238,263 vehicles in July compared to the same month last year. Registrations of electric vehicles also continued to decline significantly. In July 2024, 30,762 purely battery electric passenger cars (BEV) were newly registered on the roads, which corresponds [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]