The number of new car registrations fell by 10.3 percent to 215,050 cars last year. This means that there are fewer new cars registered in Austria than 43 years ago.
Compared to the pre-crisis year of 2019, new car sales fell by more than a third. In the previous year, a total of 305,332 new vehicles were registered, 17.8 percent less than in 2021 and 30 percent less than in 2019.
The average CO2 emissions of the new cars amounted to 134 g/km. This corresponds to a consumption of more than 5.6 l/100 km for petrol engines or more than 5.0 l/100 km for diesels.
E-cars are booming in the niche
Compared to the pre-crisis year of 2019, there was a minus of 61.9 percent for diesel engines and 55.5 percent for petrol engines. Pure electric cars, on the other hand, saw a 269.7 percent increase – although the absolute figures still show their niche existence: in 2022, only 34,165 e-cars were newly registered.
Of all new passenger car registrations in 2022, 66 percent were accounted for by legal entities, companies and municipalities and 34 percent by private owners. VW remained the market leader with a share of 14.9 percent in new cars, ahead of Group subsidiary Skoda (8.7 percent) and BMW (7.6 percent).
In 2022, more tractor-trailers (3,232 units, an increase of 10.5 percent) were registered in the commercial vehicle market. There were significant decreases in tractor registrations (minus 14.4 percent) and also for two-wheelers (minus 2.4 percent).
Source: Krone
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