2023-04-05 07:00:00
In March, new registrations in Germany increased noticeably compared to the previous year. After weaker previous months, passenger car registrations increased by 16.6 percent to 281,361. According to the Federal Motor Transport Authority, the number of commercial registrations rose by 25.3 percent. Their share was 67.0 percent. Private new registrations (32.9 percent) increased by 2.1 percent. The average CO2 emissions of all vehicles were higher than in the same month last year: they amounted to 120.6 grams per kilometer. This is a slight increase of 1.1 percent and also more than in February (119.8 g/km).
All German manufacturers increased except for Ford. The rates of increase were between 12.8 percent for Opel and 38.1 percent for Mercedes-Benz. VW remained the market leader with 17.7 percent of all newly registered cars.
Among the imported brands, Lynk & Co achieved the largest percentage increase with 356.4 percent and came to a 0.2 percent market share. MG almost tripled to 0.7 percent of all new registrations in March. Among the European brands, Alfa Romeo (+150.7%) and Land Rover (+69.9%) made significant gains. Skoda remained the most successful importer with a share of 5.7 percent and an increase of almost 31 percent compared to March 2022.
According to the KBA, most new cars (29.7 percent) belong to the SUV segment, where sales increased by 23.1 percent. This is followed by the compact class (15.9%/+27.8%) and small cars (11.8%/+3.6%). At 31.2 percent, sports cars achieved the strongest increase compared to the same month last year, their share was 1.3 percent. Only the demand for mini-vans remained below the previous year, all other vehicle types were also up.
Almost every sixth new car (15.7 percent) was an electric car, which increased by 28 percent. Interest in plug-in hybrids fell once more following the end of the subsidy: 16,776 new registrations mean a decline of 38.5 percent compared to the same month last year and a market share of six percent. 36.7 percent of the new cars were equipped with a petrol engine (103,271 cars/+22.8%), 17.3 percent were diesel vehicles (48,597 cars/+7.8%). Sales of LPG vehicles fell by a third to 1,161, while 143 natural gas vehicles were down 8.3 percent. (awm)
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