E-mobility: never before have so many vehicles been registered

Electric mobility is the trend, more and more vehicles are registered across Germany. The market for cars and bicycles is growing.

Electromobility is picking up speed across Germany. Whether two or four wheels – never before have more vehicles been registered in the Federal Republic than today. This is not least due to the expansion of the charging infrastructure, which is progressing more and more – but also to the e-car purchase bonus that the federal government passed as part of the Corona economic stimulus program. This is currently happening in the e-mobility market.

Growing sales of e-cars

According to a study by the energy company Eon, more than 136,000 all-electric cars are now registered in Germany. 53,000 of these were added last year alone – an increase of 64 percent. Depending on the federal state, the number of registered e-cars differs significantly: while in the largest federal states of Bavaria and North Rhine-Westphalia there are over 25,000 purely electrically powered vehicles on the roads, in Schleswig-Holstein, Berlin, Saxony, Hamburg, Thuringia, Brandenburg, Sachens-Anhalt, Saarland, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Bremen each have less than 5,000 registered vehicles that run exclusively on electricity.

Cars drive where there are stations

This trend coincides with the charging stations in the respective federal states. Of the slightly more than 19,000 stations, around a third are in Bavaria (3,800) and North Rhine-Westphalia (3,300). When it comes to charging infrastructure, the countries in which the smallest number of vehicles are registered are at the bottom of the list: So far, they are in Rhineland-Palatinate, Schleswig-Holstein, Saxony, Berlin, Hamburg, Thuringia, Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Saarland and Bremen less than 1,000 charging stations each, as the company's "Energy Atlas" shows.

E-bikes remain strong

The electric trend in bicycles started a few years earlier: According to a press release by the Zweirad-Industrie-Verband (ZIV), the million mark was broken for the first time in 2019 – 1.36 million e-bikes sold correspond to an increase of almost 40 percent compared to Previous year. As a result, the total share of e-bikes in the bicycle market in Germany rose to over 31 percent, and the ZIV is already saying that every second bicycle could soon be electric. However, this tendency is at the expense of non-motorized bicycles. Last year dealers recorded a drop in sales of around eight percent.

Split view of e-scooters

E-scooters have been allowed on the streets in Germany for a little more than a year. According to a field study by the ADAC, these are mainly used by tourists and people who are on their way to public transport. Germans hardly ever use e-scooters privately, which is also due to the fact that the manufacturers usually do not even offer their motorized scooters to private customers. In addition, there is growing skepticism towards scooters: According to a study by Bitkom, 69 percent of those surveyed expect more accidents, 45 percent are even of the opinion that the scooters should be banned.

A generation conflict arises here: 16 to 29-year-olds are open to scooters and use them regularly, while older people have little to do with them. This becomes particularly clear when assessing whether e-scooters can replace cars: only nine percent of those over 65 consider this to be possible, around half of those under 30 are of the opinion that sufficient e-scooter supply would be possible implement that.

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