According to the Central Association of the vehicle trade (ZDK), Electric cars over. The demand for electric cars for private buyers and the commercial approvals have been shrinking for two years, the ZDK said on Monday. Only the self -registrations “stimulate the approval statistics”.
Manufacturers, importers or dealers allow vehicles themselves, such as to achieve sales statistics to beautiful or certain sales goals. The cars are then often sold with high discounts because they are considered daily registrations or demonstration cars.
In the past of Chinese car manufacturers Byd,, who even seemed to have overtaken Tesla last April
. A deeper look at the statistics, however, shows that BYD had used some – completely legal – tricks to have their own balance sheet: until April, 4 out of 10 approved vehicles made up so -called self -registrations.
Quadruplating the manufacturer’s own allowances in two years
In the first half of 2025, the self -registration of battery -electric cars by manufacturers and trade compared to the same period in 2023 had more than doubled – to 65,401 vehicles, the ZDK said. The manufacturers’ self -registration alone would have quadrupled in two years.
ZDK President Thomas Peckruhn blamed the “still existing political uncertainty in terms of e-mobility, but also the reluctance of customers in economically uncertain times”.
The mood among Germany’s car dealers is correspondingly bad, according to the result of a survey by the ZDK among around 500 car dealerships and car companies. Almost half (44 percent) of the companies look pessimistic about sales development in the second half of the year – for the larger ones with more than 50 employees, it is 54 percent, 44 percent for the smaller ones with up to 15 employees.
Peckruhn asked politicians to “promote broadly created support in particular private electric cars”. “That would be at least the promised reduction in electricity tax and the network charges for all consumers. The current measures of the coalition are insufficiently and unilaterally geared towards high-priced e-athletes.”
The car companies have been investing in training and equipment for e-mobility for more than ten years. “We fall behind ecologically, technologically and economically if this technology is not running up now,” warned Peckruhn.