One-fifth fewer new passenger car registrations in September 2021
Vienna, 2021
"Alternative drives are continuing to gain ground. In September 2021, 7 896 new cars registered in Austria were not classic combustion engines. This means that the share of passenger cars with alternative drives in all newly registered cars was 44.2%. This is higher than the share of newly registered petrol-driven cars and more than twice as high as the share of diesel-driven cars," says Statistics Austria Director General Tobias Thomas.
Among the top 10 passenger car makes, VW ranks first
with a share of 13.4%, ahead of Skoda (share: 7.6%) and Hyundai (share:
7.4%). Compared to September 2020, Kia
In September 2021, more tractors used for agriculture
and forestry
New registrations of campers also declined by more
than one third
The number of new registrations of motor vehicles all together fell by 12.3% to 27 964 compared to September 2020. Compared to the pre-crisis month of September 2019, this corresponds to a slight increase of 0.7%.
January to September 2021: New passenger car
registrations +5.1% , share of alternative drive systems at 36.0%
In the first three quarters of 2021, 189 881 new passenger car registrations were observed, 5.1% more than in 2020. Compared to the new passenger car registrations from January to September 2019 (258 272), the 2021 registrations to date are 26.5% lower. A total of 298 643 new motor vehicles were registered during this period. Compared to 2020, this represents an increase of 13.3% and a decrease of 14.4% compared to 2019, respectively.
Compared to the same period last year, fewer petrol-powered
passenger cars (75 088;
The share of alternatively powered passenger cars in the first three quarters of 2021 was 36.0% (2020: 16.9%; 2019: 7.3%; 2018: 4.5%). This puts alternative drive systems 3.5 percentage points behind petrol-powered passenger cars, which reached a share of 39.5% in the period January to September 2021 (2020: 45.3%; 2019: 54.6%; 2018: 54.2%), but well ahead of diesel-powered passenger cars (2021: 24.4%; 2020: 37.9%; 2019: 38.1%; 2018: 41.3%).
Across Austria, one-eighth of all new passenger car registrations from January to September 2021 were delivered with pure electric drive (BEV). This share has been rising steadily in recent years (2018: 1.6%; 2019: 2.9%; 2020: 5.0%; 2021: 12.7%). Private individuals accounted for 16.2% of all new BEV registrations and legal entities, companies and local authorities for 83.8%.
In the commercial vehicle market, from January to
September 2021, more new registrations were observed for lorries class
N1 (45 146 units;
So far in 2021, 3 737 campers have been newly registered,
up 61.8% compared to January to September 2020. More motorcycles (30 354;
For more detailed results and further information concerning statistics of motor vehicles please refer to our website.
Information
on methods, definitions: Motor vehicle statistics (registrations
of new and used vehicles as well as the stock of vehicles) are secondary
statistics, compiled on the basis of daily data files sent to Statistics
Austria by Austria’s association of insurance companies (VVO). VVO,
in turn, receives data by the insurances’ registrations offices, responsible
for registrations, de-registrations and rectifications of motor vehicles
and trailers.
Within motor vehicle statistics, all motor vehicles, once nationally
or internationally registered, are levied, irrespective of the registration’s
duration.
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