Falling sales figures in 2024: Bad January for electric vehicles

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The new car market in Switzerland and Liechtenstein is pointing in the other direction for the first time in January 2024 after 16 months of continuous growth. Compared to January 2023, 7.3 percent fewer new registrations were recorded. Electric cars were especially affected by this decline. Purely electric vehicles suffered a huge loss of 16.8 percent compared to the same period last year.

To counter this negative trend, the Swiss Automobile Importers Association calls for the framework conditions to finally be improved. “Access to charging infrastructure needs to be more user-friendly throughout Switzerland,” says Peter Grünenfelder, President of Auto Switzerland. The security of electricity supply should be strengthened by the decree and sharp increases in electricity prices in the state-dominated energy market should be combated through consistent liberalization. “Politicians must finally tackle this task so that Switzerland can move towards CO₂-free mobility,” Grünenfelder continues.

Electricity is decreasing, diesel is increasing

Despite the decline in sales of fully electric cars, there are also winners in the first sales month of the new year. Plug-in hybrids increased sharply by 14.1 percent. Together with fully electric cars, they now account for 25.9 percent of the total market. This puts them just behind non-plug-in hybrid drive (30.3%) and petrol (32.6%) cars. Surprising: Diesel vehicles also showed a slight increase in January; 1.2 percentage points. This means that their share in the total market is again 11.1 percent.

Source: Blick