These e-cars are becoming slow sellers
In 2023, the environmental bonus for e-cars will no longer be what it used to be. The huge rush of enthusiastic customers died down. This applies above all to a type of electric car. The Association of the German Automotive Industry expects a massive crash in plug-in hybrids.
VDA expects a crash: plug-in hybrids have little future
The politically desired breakthrough for e-cars is likely to start to falter in 2023. The Association of the German Automotive Industry (VDA) expects this. Particularly plug-in hybrids would suffer in terms of sales from the funding that was canceled at the turn of the year. Compared to the previous year, the Sales plummet by 30 percent to around 255,000 vehicles, according to the industry association communication.
At the exclusively battery electric cars (BEV) things look different: The association expects a 8 percent increase compared to the sales figures for 2022. This means that around 510,000 purely electric cars will be on the road in Germany in 2023.
However, January has already provided a first impression of the sharp decline in sales: while BEVs are still doing comparatively well with a minus of 13.2 percent compared to the same month last year, things are going downhill quickly with plug-in hybrids. Compared to January 2022, 53.2 percent fewer PHEVs were sold.
No wonder from the point of view of the VDA: It is expected “that the reduction in subsidies for purely battery-electric cars and the cancellation of subsidies for plug-in hybrids will continue have a negative impact on the ramp-up of electromobility be,” explains President Hildegard Müller. It is therefore important “to strengthen people’s trust in electromobility in other ways”.
With the subsidy debacle, the price advantage of e-cars not only wobbles, but collapses:
This requires, among other things, a better developed charging network and secure access to critical raw materials such as lithium, nickel or cobalt. A reduction in electricity prices, for example by adjusting the electricity tax to the European minimum, is also important Not to spoil electromobility for customers. Apparently they should too Offers worry, because according to the Center Automotive Research, there were significantly more of them in January.
In 2023 the number of new e-cars will drop
So far, plug-in hybrids have made up an essential part of the number of registrations for new electric cars, and for a long time even the much larger one. The increase in purely electric cars would therefore have to be strong in order to make the overall figures positive. The VDA expects one accordingly 8 percent decline in e-car sales to a total of around 765,000 vehicles.
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