New registrations from January to April 2021: Switzerland drives this green

In the last three years there has been a clear trend towards cars with more environmentally friendly alternative drives. Not surprising. The range is becoming wider, the technology is constantly becoming more efficient – and the prices are nevertheless becoming more moderate. The speed of the alternative wave is even more surprising. While the market share of new cars with environmentally friendly hybrid, electric, hydrogen and gas drives was around seven percent in 2018, the share of these vehicles rose to 38.7 percent in the spring. The various alternative drive types are distributed very differently across the various car brands, as the table of all car brands with over 50 sales in Switzerland in the first quarter of 2021, created exclusively for SonntagsBlick by car consultant Guido Biffiger, shows.

Mild hybrids are ahead of the game