Sales of new electric cars are suffering at the moment. After 8 months of decline on the German market, Sweden is now following suit. Volkswagen loses the most.
The new car market is still bleeding. Outside of Denmark, electric cars are particularly hard hit. That's how it's been in Germany since January, and now it's Sweden's turn.
Sales of electric cars in the country have directly collapsed. While the market as a whole has declined by 20 percent, the registration of new electric cars has fallen by as much as 31 percent.
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In the entire month of August, the Swedish car dealers only managed to send 19,036 cars onto the country's roads. Blue. because every third new electric car has disappeared when compared to the same period of 2023.
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By far the most popular car in Sweden, however, is an electric car. Namely the Tesla Model Y. In fact, the Tesla is twice as popular as the car in second place, the Volvo XC60. However, both models have to look far behind last year's sales figures.
However, things have gone worst for Volkswagen. Here, the Swedish importer can note that 74 percent more copies of the ID.4 were sold last year. A car that is currently topping the sales lists at home.
However, there is also little progress to track. The plug-in hybrid, the Volvo V60, which the Danish importer, together with a number of other models, has completely thrown out of the model range, advances with 29 percent in the statistics.
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