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No other Swiss canton has more electric cars and plug-in hybrids than in Zug. This is the result of a new study by the online comparison portal Hellosafe. In 2022, 4.6 percent of all passenger cars registered in Zug, or 4370 vehicles, had electric drives. The numbers match a recent study by insurance company Axa, which found that Zug is also the canton with the highest average vehicle value.
This is followed by the canton of Zurich with a 3 percent share of electric cars, Vaud with 2.6 percent and Schwyz and Thurgau with 2.5 percent. The lowest proportion of e-cars in the canton’s vehicle stock is found in Neuchâtel with 1.5 percent, Uri with 1.6 percent and Glarus, Geneva and Jura with 1.8 percent.
In precise numbers, most of the Stromers were on the road in the most populous canton of Zurich last year – Hellosafe reached 22,302. Vaud with 10,879 registered e-cars, Bern with 10,605, Aargau with 9,314 and St. and on the way Glarus (446), Obwalden (463) and Appenzell Ausserrhoden (651).
Gasoline and diesel in decline
Hellosafe also compared how registration numbers for each driver type have evolved over the past few years. According to figures used by the Federal Statistical Office (BFS), more than 192,000 cars with pure gasoline engines and about 80,000 cars with diesel engines were newly registered in 2019. In 2022, BFS had only about 86,000 newly registered gasoline engines and less than 27,000 diesel engines. This corresponds to a significant reduction of 55 percent for pure gasoline engines and even 66 percent for diesel engines!
At the same time, between 2019 and 2022, the number of registrations for hybrid and electric powered (including plug-in hybrid vehicles) cars tripled: in 2019 there were just over 26,000 hybrid cars and about 13,000 electric vehicles, while there were about 76,000 new registrations. hybrids and more than 40,000 electric cars last year!
“Clean” cars are booming
Thanks to the sharp increase in registrations, the number of “clean” vehicles has more than doubled in just three years: in 2020 the number of fully or partially electric cars on Swiss roads was slightly more than 43,000, while last year already more than 110,000. There has also been a significant increase in hybrid drive cars, from around 134,000 vehicles in 2020 to over 284,000 last year. This means that the proportion of “clean” cars in the vehicle population has increased from 3.8 percent (2020) to 8.4 percent (2022).
Hellosafe assumes this development will go even faster this year: While the stock of pure petrol and diesel engines is said to have fallen for the first time in a long time, around 4.3 million vehicles with these two driving types are currently registered in Switzerland, with around 4.3 million vehicles registered for hybrid and electric vehicles. It will reach 600,000 vehicles. This will result in a share of more than 12 percent of the total stock.
Source: Blick
I’m Ella Sammie, author specializing in the Technology sector. I have been writing for 24 Instatnt News since 2020, and am passionate about staying up to date with the latest developments in this ever-changing industry.
