Mobility: approved significantly more electric cars

The sales of electric cars in Germany made a clear leap up last month. A total of 34,498 battery -operated cars (BEV) came to the road in January – an increase of 53.5 percent compared to the previous year. The proportion of all new registrations was 16.6 percent, as the Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA) announced.

The plus for electric cars was expected by experts. The reason for this is therefore that manufacturers have postponed BEV new approvals from 2024 to 2025 in order to get better at the CO2 fleet limit values ​​at the beginning of the year. Manufacturers would have to pay a penalty for too much CO2.

“The increasing electric car registrations show: The European limit values ​​work,” said Marion Tiemann, mobility expert at the Environmental Organization Greenpeace. “If the car lobby now saws on them with all its might and even tries to tip the decided exit date, it harms the climate, health and people are expensive.”

In 2024 the sales of electric cars had broken into

In total, 207,640 cars were approved across all drives and segments. That was 2.8 percent less than in January 2024. Almost every third new car (30.6 percent) was a city off -road vehicle (SUV.)

The sales of electric cars in Germany broke out last year. Only around 380,600 e-vehicles were re-registered over the course of the year and thus almost 27.5 percent less than in the previous year. Their share of all new registrations was 13.5 percent.