The German car market has not yet fully recovered from the pandemic, but it is still on the up.
When it comes to new registrations, the proportion of e-cars is very different from before Corona.
Berlin - More and more new cars in Germany are purely electric cars: Around 149,000 battery drives came onto the road in the first half of 2021, as the Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA) announced.
That was more than three times as many electric cars as in the same period last year.
More than one in ten new cars had an electric motor.
In the first half of last year, their share was just 3.5 percent of all new registrations.
The Corona crisis caused the entire car sales to collapse at the time.
The Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA) rates the increasing number of alternative drives as a great success.
“However, the charging infrastructure has to catch up,” said VDA President Hildegard Müller.
"By 2030, Germany will need more than one million charging points for e-cars and e-vans, and thus considerably more efforts."
The car market has now recovered, but only slowly. A total of 1.39 million cars were newly registered in the first six months of this year. That is almost 15 percent more than in the same period last year. But: "The new registrations in 2021 will remain well below the level before the start of the corona pandemic," announced the President of the Association of International Motor Vehicle Manufacturers (VDIK), Reinhard Zirpel, on Monday. dpa
