Even the diesel car, which has been falsely shamed in recent years, is up to 40 percent more expensive in Denmark due to demand.
The diesel car has a bad reputation among the general public. And in Denmark, the bad reputation is helped along by the environmental zones, where some diesel cars are not allowed to drive at all. But now they are getting more expensive.
The diesel cars, that is. In fact, figures from Bilbasen show that diesel cars up to eight years old have increased in price by up to 40 percent.
That's what Berlingske writes.
Petrol cars have not risen in price quite as much. But the owners of used petrol cars today can still add 3 to 4 percent on top of the price they would otherwise be able to charge for the cars.
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The generally increasing demand for used cars with internal combustion engines must be seen in connection with the trends on the European car market.
It is not in all countries that sales of electric cars are kept as artificially high as is the case in Denmark and Norway. In Germany, where all support for electric cars was removed immediately in December to patch a hole in the state coffers, interest in electric cars has now collapsed for 7 months in a row.
And in the other markets – such as in Spain and Italy – the electric car can only record single-digit progress. Even though here we actually find some of the world's cheapest new Teslas. Read more about it here.
The lower growth rate of electric cars must also be seen in light of the changed attitude of many car brands. Most recently, a brand such as Audi has announced that it will not build the last car with a combustion engine in 2033 after all.
Now the boss, Gernot Döllner, says instead that 'we need to be flexible'. His chief colleague at Renault, Luca de Meo, has even asked the EU to reconsider the ban on new petrol and diesel cars from 2035. Read more about it here .
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