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Rental car rarely electric – leader Norway
If you book a rental car, you rarely drive electrically. Especially in typical holiday countries. But there are exceptions, because in the end it also depends on the offer.
Rental cars rarely drive electrically in most countries. A current evaluation of bookings by billiger-mietwagen.de shows a share of only 2.1 percent last year, the portal reports. However, the differences are huge – and compared to 2023 there is a clear increase.
The investigation is based on bookings over a total of ten million days from 2024 and 2023. They came mainly from Germany, Austria and Switzerland. “The offer is decisive for the differences between the countries,” says Frieder Bechtel from Billiger-Mietwagen.de. This is obviously particularly good in Norway and Sweden. Last year there were 20.4 and 16.4 percent of the rental cars Stromer booked over the portal. The two countries – especially Norway – are also clearly above the European average in new electrical approvals.
Other countries with particularly high electric car components at the rental car bookings in Europe are France, Belgium and Switzerland with 8.6 percent, 7.1 percent and 7.0 percent. Germany is 3.7 percent and thus clearly above the average of all bookings over the portal, which also include non -European goals.
Low shares in Spain and Italy
On the other hand, the bookings made in Italy with an electrical share of 0.8 percent, in Spain with 1.1 or the USA and Austria with 1.2 percent are far below average.
The values do not reflect the rental car fleets in these countries one to one, but the bookings give at least a good indication of what the circumstances should look like.
“If you compare the new registrations of electric cars with the bookings, you can see that the Stromer in the rental market is much less common. In Norway, for example, nine out of ten new cars are electrically electrically but only two of the bookings examined.” As a result, rental cars are quite new, unlike in the overall vehicle population, a large number of old vehicles are not flowing into the statistics.
But apparently there are reluctance to both the landlords and customers. “Especially on vacation there is skepticism on the electric cars because people are not ready to deal with the charging stations there, for example in Spain, their location and the payment system,” says Bechtel. For the landlords, the attitude is apparently similar: “On the one hand, this is due to acquisition and repair costs as well as lower resale values, and on the other hand because the advantages of energy costs benefit customers and not to the landlords”.
Bechtel stipulates that the shares still rise: “In the countries in which the electrical shares in the rental cars have increased particularly sharply, prices for them have dropped compared to the burner,” he says. “That should have been a crucial force. Possibly the landlords are trying to strengthen the utilization of their electric cars.”
dpa
Source: Stern
