The new registrations of cars with a pure electric motor again increased significantly in February. As the Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA) announced in Flensburg on Wednesday, around 35,949 electric vehicles were re-registered, thus 30.8 percent more than in the same month. According to the consulting company EY, this is also “at the very low level of the previous year”. New registrations of the US manufacturer Tesla, which only builds electric cars, broke up by 76 percent against the trend.
In the meantime, electric cars are coming to a market share of 17.7 percent, according to the Federal Motor Transport Authority. In the previous year, the demand for the abrupt from the state purchase bonus had broken in. Hybrid cars were also more in demand than a year ago and are now the dominant drive type with a 38.2 percent market share (so-called full hybrids and plug-in hybrids).
Classic combustion engines, on the other hand, suffered a significant decline of around a quarter. The proportion of new diesel cars shrank to 15.8 percent of all new cars, pure petrol engines still made 28 percent. For comparison: overall of 49.3 million in Germany Approved cars, the combustion engines were still the clear majority at the turn of the year (60.6 percent petrol engine, 28 percent diesel). Elekl electrically only drove every thirteest car on German roads (3.3 percent).
“From a real ride of electromobility still far away”
According to EY, the level of new registrations in the electric cars was in the area of the previous months. At first glance, the high growth pace at electric cars is currently becoming apparent than stagnation, said Constantin Gall, car market expert at EY. He still saw “no positive trend reversal”. “We are still far from a real ride of electromobility.”
Overall, the car market in Germany suffered a damper in February. 203,434 cars were re -approved across all drive types, which is 6.4 percent less than in the previous year. The minus has been added to 4.6 percent since the start of the year.
Tesla becomes a shopkeeper
The Tesla cars in particular become the shop keeper: In February, only 1429 vehicles from the US electric car manufacturer were sold, which corresponds to a decline of more than three quarters compared to the previous year-although the electric market is attracted again.
Shortly before it had become public that even in the most important sales market China the Sales of the e-car manufacturer broken in are. The US company sold 30,688 vehicles there in February-49 percent less than in February 2024, as the Chinese industry association CPCA reports.
The Tesla share’s course crash continues. The spa value dropped by around 5 percent until Tuesday evening. Tesla has lost more than a third of his market capitalization since mid -December.