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Fewer cars registered in Berlin and Hamburg
Throughout Germany, the number of cars increases from year to year – two federal states are an exception. The strongest increase is right next to the strongest decline.
Berlin and Hamburg escape the nationwide trend towards more and more cars. While the car population in Germany rose by around 240,000 last year, a good 11,000 went down in Berlin, as the figures from the Federal Motor Transport Authority, which the dpa evaluated. In Hamburg, the minus was almost 2,500, and car stocks rose in the remaining federal states.
In Hamburg it was already the third decline in the year in a row, but the strongest of the recent past. In Berlin, the vehicle population had increased in 2023. The current minus of 0.9 percent in the capital is comparatively large. It exceeds the greatest relative increase, which occurred in Brandenburg at 0.8 percent.
The largest climbs, which was hardly surprising, were – hardly surprising – in the three most populous federal states of North Rhine -Westphalia, Bavaria and Baden -Württemberg with a good 48,000 and almost 46,000.
There is a total of 49.3 million cars in Germany on January 1, 2025. The inventory has been increasing continuously for years.
dpa
Source: Stern
