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 [...]
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 [...]