Date 4/3/2020
Flensburg, April 3, 2020. 215,119 Passenger cars (Passenger cars) were newly registered in March 2020. Compared to the same month in the previous year, the Corona crisis showed a decline of -37.7 percent. The number of commercial New registrations decreased by -39.6 percent, their share was 61.9 percent, private registrations lost -34.4 percent. After the end of the first quarter of the current year, there was an overall decline in new car registrations of -20.3 percent.
The declines in the number of new registrations had an impact on all Germans compared to March 2019 Brands, where the bandwidth was between -20.7 percent for Mini and -84.4 percent for Smart. VW was the strongest brand with 18.9 percent.
Subaru was the only import brand with +1.6 percent (share: 0.2%) brand register an increase in registrations. The declines, which with the exception of Subaru also showed consistently among importers, ranged from -2.8 percent for Lexus (0.1%) to -63.2 percent for Alfa Romeo (0.1%). The largest share of import brands were Skoda (5.6%), Seat (4.2%) and Fiat (3.2%).
With the exception of the motorhomes, the declines were spread over all Segments. Only the number of mobile home registrations in March was +2.3 percent higher than in the same month of the previous year and reached a share of 3.2 percent. The compact class was the strongest segment at 21.1 percent, despite the -37.2 percent reduction in unit numbers, followed by the SUVs, which accounted for 20.3 percent with a decrease of -37.5 percent. The New registrations off-road vehicles fell by -26.2 percent, their share was 10.9 percent. At -67.3 percent, the drop in registrations for the mini-vans was most pronounced. Their share was 1.2 percent in March.
The alternative drive types sometimes showed three-digit increases compared to the same month in the previous year. Both Hybrids With 28,735 new cars, there was an increase of 62.0 percent, including 9,426 Plug-in hybrids (+207.9%). 10,329 electric vehicles were registered, +56.1 percent more than in the same month last year. Natural gas-powered cars grew by 8.6 percent to 507 units and reached a share of 0.2 percent. 82 liquefied gas-powered cars, on the other hand, caused a minus of -89.8 percent (share 0.0%). The New registration of petrol engines decreased by -48.3 percent, nevertheless their share was 107.057 new cars 50.0 percent. 67,937 cars were equipped with diesel. After a decrease of -39.3 percent, they reached a share of 31.6 percent.
Average CO2 emissions decreased by -4.9 percent in March to 149.0 g / km Buses an increase of +11.8 percent, other Motor vehicles (Motor vehicles) recorded an increase of 5.6 percent. Both Trucks (Trucks) (-26.0%) and the Tractors (-14.8%), including Tractor units (-37.4%) showed up as well Motorcycles (-16.3%) a drop in admission.
In total, 271,164 vehicles (-34.7%) and 23,433Car trailer (-29.7%) newly registered.
A total of 536,463 vehicles (-25.8%) and 23,652 changed vehicles in the reporting monthCar trailer (-32.9%) the holder.
You can find the entire press release here: Press release No. 09/2020
Contact person: Mr. Stephan Immen, phone: +49 461 316-1293