Big Plus: Car Registrations on the Rise
Domestic car buyers stepped on the gas in August. New registrations increased by a quarter year-on-year, after already rising by a third in July. Overall, 10.7 percent more new cars were registered in the first eight months of this year compared to the same period last year. 189,370 cars hit the road for the first time. Across all vehicles, 260,233 units were newly registered, 3.4 percent more than in 2024.
Hybrid Drives No Rarity
The trend towards hybrid drives continued among cars. Almost 40 percent of all cars newly registered between January and August had a petrol or diesel hybrid drive. The share of pure electric cars was 21.5 percent. Combustion engines, on the other hand, are increasingly ending up on the sidelines: conventionally powered cars reached a share of 40.2 percent from January to August, but this corresponds to a decline of 15.9 percent, Statistics Austria reported on Tuesday.
And once again, it was shown that the typical new car buyer is not the private individual, but the company. Only 37 percent of all new car registrations this year so far were private purchases. Also a constant is the market leadership of the VW Group. 14.1 percent of all new car registrations from January to August were for VW itself, 10.8 percent were claimed by the subsidiary Skoda, and Audi in third place achieved a market share of 6.3 percent. Among purely electric cars, the most popular brands were BMW, followed by VW and Tesla. The US provider Tesla was almost on par with Skoda and the Chinese rising star BYD.
Decline in Semi-Trailer Trucks
The poor economic situation in Austria is also reflected in new truck registrations. In the "Sprinter" class, i.e., small trucks used by craftsmen and delivery services, there was a registration decline of 12.7 percent. For semi-trailer trucks, it was 16.7 percent. Things were much more relaxed for farmers, where tractor registrations have remained almost stable so far this year.
Two-wheeler registrations have slowed down significantly. There was a 9.2 percent decline in motorcycle registrations from January to August, totaling 27,617 vehicles.
And how has the used car market developed? Since the beginning of the year, the average used car price has fallen from 29,727 euros to 29,400 euros, a decrease of 327 euros or 1.1 percent, according to the online platform AutoScout24 in August. Significantly cheaper than at the beginning of the year were especially small cars and electric cars. The segment of the vanishing vans and minibuses was in high demand. They increased by almost 1,780 euros to now 26,793 euros - an increase of 7.1 percent.
(APA/Red)
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