Electric cars are rushing at falling nybilsmarknad

The rechargeable cars now have a share of all newly registered cars at 12.4 per cent, compared with 6.7 per cent in the last year. In april, the rate was 10.1 per cent.

– It is a welcome development and an important step on the road to reducing emissions, " said Mattias Bergman, president of the organization Car Sweden.

– The increasing number of rechargeable cars on our roads puts the finger on the need for the expansion of the laddinfrastrukturen both for hemmaladdning and fast charge is accelerated. Other measures that should be taken is to introduce the instruments, and also for the use of rechargeable cars, and not just at the time of purchase, " he says.

as a whole shows, however, continued minussiffror. The decline in april was 12 percent to 30.253 cars. Year-to-date case more than 14 per cent to 104.133 cars. The new car market has declined every month since July last year.

a market Leader Volvo has so far this year, lost 28% in volume. The market share has gone down by almost four percentage points to 19 per cent. The runner-up Volkswagen has declined almost two percentage points to 13 per cent.

For diesel cars, it seems as if the long decline started to level off.

– the Proportion of diesels of nybilsregistreringarna was 38.5 per cent in april, which is almost the same proportion as in april last year, to 39.3%. The reduction of dieselandelen has been going on since the peak in 2012, when the proportion was 67 percent, have leveled out and stabilized at a level of 35-40 per cent, " says Mattias Bergman.

the 2030 is the energy-efficient diesel cars, which are increasingly running on an increased share of biofuels in the fuel, an important piece of the puzzle. In recent time, the number of approved models for HVO100 increased, " he says.

In 2018 registered 353.666 new cars, the third highest price so far. the forecast for this year is 335.000 cars and 50,000 light trucks.