In the European Union, new car registrations increased noticeably last month. In September, 888,672 new cars were registered, 10.0 percent more than a year earlier, as the manufacturers’ association Acea announced in Brussels on Tuesday.
After the first nine months, the balance turned slightly positive: at 8.06 million cars, there are now 0.9 percent more new registrations than a year before. The association said that new registrations in September were driven, among other things, by new models.
The share of purely electric cars rose further to 16.1 percent. The Brussels lobby association judged that this was still not enough in this phase of the switch to electric drives. Plug-in hybrids – i.e. rechargeable mixed drives – currently have a 9 percent market share.
The remains the undisputed market leader in the EU Volkswagen-Group, whose brands grew by a total of 11.1 percent in September. The sports car manufacturer Porsche AG from the VW Group alone recorded a loss of 6.5 percent.
From the BMW-Group registered 2.8 percent fewer cars, while Mercedes-Benz registered 4.8 percent more. The electric car pioneer Tesla reduced the previously even more significant decline in new registrations in September to 18.6 percent.