It is not only fuel that will be subject to additional tax next year. Diesel and petrol cars will also become significantly more expensive from 1 January 2025.
New diesel and petrol cars will also become significantly more expensive from 1 January 2025. This is due to tighter EU rules.
The EU demands that car brands in Europe sell at least 23 percent electric cars and at least 8 percent hybrids from next year.
Furthermore, the emissions from the cars must not exceed 93.6 grams per vehicle on average. short kilometer. If it happens anyway, there will be large stalls for the car brands.
Therefore, the analysis firm Dataforce , which is behind the report Automobile Market Forecast 2024-2025 , believes that car brands are significantly cutting down on the number of diesel and petrol cars. At least in those that are being marketed to.
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However, this is not exactly because the car industry has something of a jubilee year to look forward to in 2025. Sales of electric cars are not at a level that car manufacturers had expected just a few years ago.
In fact, electric cars are doing so poorly that the vast majority of car manufacturers have stepped back from ceilings to only sell electric cars by 2030 at the latest. This has happened to e.g. Mercedes, Ford and Volkswagen. Read more about it here .
Dataforce believes that the number of newly registered cars in 2025 will only increase by around 4 percent. Which is well below the level of just a handful of years ago.
Nor should electric cars be expected to storm forward in 2025. This has, among other things, higher financing costs, general economic slowdown and a decline in consumer purchasing power caused.
In fact, Dataforce predicts that even before 2024 expires, electric cars will have fallen by 2.4 percent on the sales side. However, they will get a slightly better hold on motorists in line with more and more restrictions on fossil-fuel cars.
Much apropos of restrictions on fossil cars, Germany's Transport Minister Volker Wissing warns that 8 million cars in Germany alone risk being banned from 1 January 2025. Read more about it here .
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