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New car registrations in May: minus a third
According to Statistics Austria, 20,211 cars were newly registered in May 2020. That is 33.9% less than in May of the previous year.
New car registrations in May: minus a third
Cars with electric drives recorded an increase of 5.2% (share: 3.6%). Passenger cars with petrol hybrid drives (+83.8%; share: 9.7%) and with diesel hybrid drives (+40.2%; share: 1.9%) also achieved growth. Fewer new registrations were observed for gasoline-powered cars (-41.6%; share: 47.7%) and diesel-powered cars (-37.8%; share: 36.7%). All top 10 passenger car brands recorded declines: Opel -45.5%, Skoda -41.8%, VW -41.0%, Ford -36.7%, Seat -33.8%, Hyundai -32.3%, Audi -32.2%, Renault -29.6%, Mercedes -22.5% and BMW -19.8%.
From January to May 2020, the number of new passenger car registrations fell by 39.9% to 86,111, which was 57,269 fewer new registrations than in the same period in 2019.