Slight growth for passenger carsThe German passenger car market grew in June. The Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA) registered 297,329 new registrations, 6.1 percent more than in the same period last year. Part of the growth is likely to be due to the introduction of new equipment regulations that will make it more difficult to register older new car types from July. In the entire first half of the year, 1.47 million new cars were registered for the first time across Germany, 5.4 percent more than in the comparable period of 2023. New electric car registrations continued to be in the red in June, falling by 18.1 percent to 43,412 vehicles. For the first six months the decline was 16.4 percent. The plug-in hybrids lost 3.4 percent in June, but recorded an increase of 13.3 percent over the course of the year. The average CO2 emissions of new German cars rose by 3.8 percent in June and amounted to 119.5 grams per kilometer; the average CO2 emissions after the end of the first half of the year were 1.9 percent higher at 123.3 g/km in the comparison period.
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