Market: No boom with the alternatives
EVERYTHING ALMOST AS IT WAS The current climate debate has not yet had any discernible impact on car purchases, as the latest figures from auto-i-dat ag show. Pure petrol cars still make up the majority. At best, there is some momentum in the switch to alternative drive systems: in the first six months of the year, around 6000 electric and [...]
At best, there is some momentum in the switch to alternative drive systems: in the first six months of the year, around 6,000 electrically powered and around 10,237 hybrid-powered passenger cars were newly registered. That is around 3339 more cars with hybrid drives and 3539 more cars with electric drives than in the same period in 2018.
Hardly any impact from the climate debate
René Mitteregger, data specialist at auto-i-dat ag: "We are registering an increase in the number of petrol cars sold at the expense of diesels. Although this is counterproductive in terms of CO2 emissions, it is a consequence of the NOx debate. Based on the data, it is hardly possible to identify the influence of the climate debate, which has intensified in recent months."
Delayed delivery of many vehicles
René Mitteregger does not want to speak of a boom in alternative drive systems despite an increase of 68 percent: "Especially as vehicles are now being delivered, some of which were ordered three years ago. Such a high increase would probably look great, but is only of limited significance because only 3.9 percent of all passenger cars registered in the last six months are actually purely electrically powered."
Tesla contributed to this, selling almost four times as many vehicles in Switzerland in the first six months as in the same period last year. The rapid increase is more likely due to the fact that the Model 3 can only now be delivered.
