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E-car registrations are increasing
Demand from domestic customers for cars with electric drives exceeds the manufacturers' delivery capacity.
E-car registrations are increasing
Increasing deliveries of electric cars and increasing interest in purchasing electric vehicles among drivers are ensuring positive developments in the domestic e-mobility market despite the economic effects of COVID-19: The number of newly registered electric vehicles rose in Austria in April, May and June 2020by 36 percent compared to the same quarter last year. The proportion of electrified vehicles in the total number of new registrations in this country reached 1,000 in the entire first half of 202015 percent a new record. This was particularly important in the second quarterPlug-in hybrids with a massive increase of 234 percent compared to the same quarter last year. These are the central results of the current edition of “E-Mobility Sales Review Q3 2020” by PwC Autofacts and Strategy&, PwC’s strategy consultancy.
“Currently, strong consumer demand is met with limited supply and long delivery times, which is why the effects of government support measures in Austria will only be felt more clearly next year.”says Günther Reiter, Automotive Leader at PwC Austria.
In Europe, conventional drive technologies with diesel and gasoline recorded a significant drop in sales of 57.9 percent during the crisis (Q2-2020 compared to the same period last year). The European e-mobility segment, however, remained comparatively unaffected by the effects of COVID-19 and the corresponding lockdown measures: in the first half of the year, the number of newly registered electric vehicles in the ten European markets examined rose by 25.6 percent. In the second quarter of 2020, new registrations were only possible to a limited extent due to temporary closures of car dealerships and registration offices, but sales figures in the European core markets (Germany, France, Great Britain, Italy, Spain) fell by only one percent compared to the second quarter of 2019. Plug-in hybrids rose sharply with +121 percent in new registrations and battery-electric vehicles also experienced an increase of +35 percent in Europe.