In Lower Austria, the major vehicle manufacturers are asserting themselves on the market. However, electric cars and diesel vehicles smelled bad last year. Which brands are leading the way across the country.
The number of new car registrations in Lower Austria will increase significantly by 2023. “But we are still below pre-Corona levels,” explains Wolfgang Schirak, chairman of the vehicle trade group at the Lower Austrian Chamber of Commerce.
In 2024, 47,107 new vehicles were registered across the country, corresponding to an increase of 8.1 percent – more precise absolute figures for the previous year’s car brands and the changes until 2023 below. VW remained the market leader, ahead of Skoda, BMW and Audi. Peugeot managed to win the most in the ranking of the 15 strongest car brands. The biggest losers in the top field include Ford, Kia and Renault.
Overall, new registrations of petrol vehicles across the country increased by 14.6 percent, while sales of diesel vehicles fell by 6.5 percent.
Electric cars will ‘stink’ by 2024
Three percent fewer electric cars were also sold. “In a comparison of the federal states, this is the smallest decrease after Vienna. Across Austria, the decline is 6.3 percent,” analyzes Schirak, who nevertheless emphasizes that the future of the automotive industry in Europe is electric.
“The path there still needs time for the necessary expansion of the infrastructure, and time for people to see electromobility as such as the mobility of the future,” he says. Especially in rural areas of a federal state, there is still a need for a range of modern, low-emission vehicles.
Source: Krone
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