In August, more electric cars were registered than diesel. However, one cannot yet speak of a breakthrough in favor of the Stromer – this relationship has already occurred sporadically in the past two years, most recently in May 2023.
There were 3,945 battery-electric cars compared to 3,821 diesel cars. This emerges from the new vehicle registrations published by Statistics Austria on Monday. After May this year, December 2022 and September 2021, it is the fourth month in which electric cars are ahead of diesels. Without electric drives, the Austrian car market would shrink. Incidentally, only ten new hydrogen cars were put on the road this year. The number one drivetrain is still the gasoline engine with 5,545 new registrations in August and 54,068 since the beginning of the year. However, there was a double-digit decline of 14.1 and 13.1 percent for both gasoline and diesel engines in August. For purely electric cars, the increase was 49.5 percent compared to August 2022, and for hybrid models, new registrations rose by 26.9 percent to 5,478. A total of 18,790 cars were registered in August, an increase of 5.5 percent. Since the beginning of the year, 163,046 new cars have appeared on domestic roads, an increase of 14.4 percent. Alternative powered cars recently had a market share of 50.2 percent. The US electric car maker Tesla recorded the strongest growth this year with an increase of over 125 percent, followed by Skoda with 28.2 percent.
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