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Huk Coburg: Private electric car purchases are increasing strongly
So far, most electric cars in Germany have been purchased by companies, but private car owners are far more hesitant. A new analysis indicates declining reservations.
After a long doldrum, the private electric car market in Germany gets going. According to the “E-Barometer” of the insurer Huk Coburg, so many private car owners switched to a fully electric car, according to the “e-barometer” as since the state purchase bonus was deleted at the end of 2023.
According to this, 5.5 percent of private owners decided in the statistical average between the beginning of April and the end of June when purchasing another car for a battery -operated car. That was a good third more than in the first three months of the year (4.1 percent), as the company said. Vehicles with hybrid engines are not counted in the evaluation.
Company and service cars outside
The old federal government had deleted the electric car subsidy in December 2023, after which the switch rate had dropped from 6.2 to less than 4 percent. The evaluation is based on the company’s own data, the HUK is the market leader of car insurance in Germany with a good 14 million vehicles before the Allianz.
Unlike the Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA), the HUK only evaluates the registrations of private car owners for its “e-barometer”, both used and new vehicles. Company and service cars are not taken into account as well as the vehicle fleets of the car rental companies.
The company wants to gain information about the preferences of the car owners. “Whether the switch to e-mobility in Germany succeeds is decided in the private car market because it includes a good 90 percent of the overall market,” said board member Jörg Rheinländer.
Reservations against electric cars become weaker
The accompanying surveys also indicate that the widespread electric car skepticism becomes weaker among the population. In the current version, a relative majority of 48 percent e-cars with “very good” or “good”, on the other hand, still consider 45 percent, but battery cars still consider less or not at all well. At the beginning of 2024, supporters were still in the minority with 37 percent. The survey institute Yougov surveyed 4,180 people from 16 in the HUK order from May 12th to June 1st.
The preferences, however, differ greatly according to age, gender and federal state: in the age group from 40s from the nationwide average are only 39 percent e-car supporters, but among the younger ones of 16 to 39, however, almost two thirds (65 percent).
Women are therefore more skeptical than men. The latter consider 55 percent of battery -operated cars to be a good thing, for women it is only 41 percent. The shares of e-car owners in Bavaria (3.7 percent) and Lower Saxony (3.6), in Saxony (1.7 percent) are most low.
dpa
Source: Stern
