Turbo boost in the car trade

Turbo boost in the car trade

As Statistics Austria reports, new car registrations had the best start to the year since 2020 this year. A total of 24,818 motor vehicles were newly registered (+11.4%). “The proportion of alternatively powered cars among all newly registered cars in January 2025 will once again be well over 50% - a development that we have been observing for six months,” says Statistics Austria General Director Tobias Thomas. New alternatively operated passenger car registrations have increased by almost a third and reached 10,869 cars in January 2025, an increase of 29.9% (+2,504 cars) compared to January 2024. 3,822 cars with electric drives were newly registered (+35.4%), and new registrations of gasoline hybrid cars increased by 28.8% 5,662 increased and the number of cars with diesel hybrid drives rose to 1,385 (+21.3%). Of all new cars registered on the road in January 2025, purely electrically powered cars accounted for 18.7%, petrol hybrid cars accounted for 27.7% and diesel hybrids accounted for 6.8%. The share of alternative drives was 53.2%.

Diesel on the decline

31.8% of all newly registered cars had a petrol engine and 15.0% had a diesel engine. Compared to January 2024, an overall increase of 4.3% was observed in the number of registrations of conventionally powered cars, with new registrations of gasoline cars increasing (6,505; +14.5%) and those of diesel cars (3,074; −12.3%) decreasing. The most important car brands in January 2025 were VW (share: 14.4%), Skoda (share: 12.2%), Audi (share: 8.6%), BMW (share: 7.5%) and Seat (share: 6.0%). Among the top ten car brands, significant increases were observed in Hyundai (+166.0%), Cupra (+98.3%), Mercedes (+29.5%), VW (+25.2%), Skoda (+21.4%), Audi (+20.6%) and Seat (+14.3%) compared to January 2024. New registrations at Dacia also increased (+1.3%). In contrast, new registrations for Toyota (−10.0%) and BMW (−2.1%) fell.