The share of electric cars in new registrations in Germany plummeted 27.5% in 2024 compared to the previous year. Blackout News has more.
According to the Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA), only 380,600 electric vehicles were newly registered. This corresponds to a decrease of 27.5% compared to the previous year. While 18.4% of new cars were electrically powered in 2023, the share was only 13.5% last year.
There are many reasons for the collapse in new registrations, but the end of Government purchase subsidies at the turn of the year 2023-24 plays a central role. Mobility expert Constantin Gall emphasised that uncertainty among potential buyers has increased massively.
Even if new models come onto the market, they remain financially unattractive for many people. Gall therefore described electromobility as a solution that is currently only accessible to higher earners.
Pierre Gosselin of the NoTricksZone remarks that the “future remains bleak for e-mobility”:
With the bad figures, it’s only natural that e-car proponents are calling for more subsidies in order to entice consumers to opt for e-cars, and higher taxes to punish those who refuse to cooperate by buying diesel or petrol engine vehicles, which are more reliable and cheaper.
So what does the future hold? That of course will depend on the outcome of the coming February 23rd national elections. Currently the (fake) conservative CDU/CSU party are leading in the polls (29%) and are expected to win. But a new Government under chancellor Friedrich Merz would likely continue Angela Merkel’s disastrous green policies, albeit at a slower rate than the current socialist-Green government under Olaf Scholz.
Meanwhile, the Telegraph reports: ‘European electric car market suffers “devastating” collapse after tax breaks scrapped.‘
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Maybe they can give them away, but I don’t want one if they do!
free electric car with every petrol one purchased.
BOGOF
They will give them away, but only after the taxpayer has bought them all.
Councils will find some nonsensical use for them. They’ll stand motionless in town centres with chuggers standing around them chanting about whales or polar bears or some such.
Pray for some spontaneous lithium fires.
I guess by now the affluent techno-enthusiasts will have bought their electric cars. These are also people who will be able to fit a charger at home.
The remaining ordinary citizens, not that well off, maybe living in flats or rented accommodation, who just want something to get from A to B, have other things to worry about and don’t buy the green-net-zero sales pitch, are not interested.
Having an electric car is against my religion!
Car ownership is not compatible with the 20-minute city utopia/dystopia.
Very true, the end game is e-scooters for all.
I share your view. With their high purchase cost and uncertain secondhand value on disposal, electric cars will only appeal to those on generous incomes who see them as a means of virtue signalling, or as a status symbol. If they’ve invested in solar panels and batteries, they’ll be able to boast about charging them up for free too.
“..e-car proponents are calling for more subsidies in order to entice consumers to opt for e-cars..”
Purchase cost is a factor, but not the only one.
What is it with these nitwits who are incapable of understanding that electric cars need… electricity to charge the batteries?
Charging stations are few and far between; charging is time consuming; range is limited; the amount of electricity generated and grid infrastructure are insufficient when/if the number of BEVs increase; reliability of supply (Dunkelflaute) uncertain; maintenance is more expensive; significant depreciation.
The accumulation of these factors means the cons outweigh the pros by a wide margin.
And even the idiotic anal-retentive Germans are figuring out the whole Green nonsense is a fraud.
idiotic anal-retentive Germans
I have friends who purchased electric cars. Journeys of over 100 miles seem to be punctuated with frequent stops to top up the charge, due to range anxiety. When you can travel from one end of the country to the other with maybe one refuelling stop in a diesel or petrol car, taking around 10 minutes, why would you sacrifice so much of your valuable time to queue for a space at a public charging point and then kick around while the battery gets charged? Especially if you need to do it more than once.
Ze Public-Private parnership is not without its problems.
Central planning is highly inefficient and far inferior to free markets whether it’s done by state bureaucrats alone or in cahoots with corporations.
The tempo of these times is amazing. A few short years and these vehicles are beginning to be seen as something ghastly. And the Germans are the biggest nature worshippers so it means something. As if anything to do with these Satanic machines is conducive to environmental well-being. The short unhappy life of the endtimes electric car. Emblematic of the final stage of the feeding frenzy when the sharks are so overcome with bloodlust that they start to bite at their own stomachs.
“Vorspruch durch Technik,” as we Germans no longer like to say.
There’s a longstanding scapyard at Scapa Flow for the doomed technology of the era.
A good voting pledge for the AFD if they haven’t already added this into their manifesto; Vote AFD and protect the ICE into the future!
Difficult for anyone to turn this agenda around now. It would need to involve plans taking decades, the rebuilding of the pipeline for instance. But it is a good start if they can commit to that. Might be certain trust issues to contend with though.
Oh no, the Germans are falling out of love with the BEV, better dial Nein Nein Nein
The top gear effect
If you care to look at motoring on you-tube, you can see a large number of car related channels with a huge number of followers. For many people cars are far more than a utilitarian need for transport. For many people; they can put up with windmills and solar farms but start messing with their cars and that is a net-zero step too far. I think the impact of net-zero on cars and motoring is only just becoming apparent to people and they are not happy.
In my view it is with cars and motoring where we will see the first serious conflicts with the net-zero agenda and the climate zealous politicians. The ludicrous over the top reactions to last year’s riots was like a practice run for how they plan to deal with any ‘peasants’ revolt over cars, net-zero and motoring
Spot on Stevo
I don’t think ICE vehicles had subsidies at the start of the automotive industry, neither were there subsidised filling stations. Indeed the RAC was established to provide motorists with supplies of fuel when there was none. Similarly the power stations at the start of the electricity and gas supply industry were all privately owned. It was only much later that they were taken over by local councils and later still nationalised. It appears solar, wind and EVs are unsustainable without subsidies on the one hand and taxes on their competition on the other. A huge assistance for their already wealthy investors such as Elon Musk
To show how far the brainwashing by the government and media has gone we know an elderly lady with an ultra low mileage but 10 year old VW. She was proposing to buy an EV to do her bit for the environment. Fortunately our local garage talked her out of it.
I wonder how long the German people are going to watch as BMW, Mercedes and VW/Audi go down the drain of the Eco Nutter SCAM?
I think we’ve still got quite a long time to wait. I suspect the French and Italians will revolt first, as Renault/Peugeot and Fiat/Alfa Romeo and Ferrari are hammered.