That electromobility is a current trend? Not in the Czech Republic yet. Sales of purely battery cars did not increase last year, on the contrary, they even fell by a fifth compared to 2020. Compared to Western Europe, interest in the Czech Republic is significantly weaker. Rather, they pull hybrids that can combine electricity with combustion. Their sales last year even increased by almost 90 percent.
Last year, over 140,000 new petrol cars, over 51,000 diesel cars and “only” 2,646 pure electric cars were sold or registered on the Czech market. It is even less than in 2020. “Contrary to expectations, registrations of fully electric vehicles did not increase, on the contrary, there was a decrease of 19%,” said the Association of Car Importers, which published the number of registrations of new cars on Thursday.
The share of cars running exclusively on flashlights in all registrations of new cars in the Czech Republic was less than 1.3 percent. “Practically, this is a share close to the V4 countries, but we are significantly losing ground to the European average in this respect,” notes Jindřich Frič, director of the Center for Transport Research (CDV). The European average is around 8 percent of pure battery electric cars.
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Last year, 738 new Škoda Enyaq electric cars were registered in the Czech Republic, and Enyaq sales had the largest share in the annual statistics. In fact, they also signed a one-fifth drop in registrations.
“The almost one-fifth year-on-year decrease in the number of registrations of battery-powered passenger cars did not surprise us in the context of last year’s development. which was registered at Škoda Auto, “explains Jindřich Frič.
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The main increase in 2020 was mainly due to the domestic carmaker. And this year, the number of registrations failed to catch up, even though the Enyaq was by far the most registered new personal electric car.
In second place was the Hyundai Kona with only 206 registrations and the third Tesla Model 3 (201 registrations).
The vast majority of Enyaqs “sold” this year are run by companies and leasing companies. According to CDV data, over 40% directly from Škoda Auto.
Overall – regardless of fuel – the share of company cars registered in our country last year was 75.7%, less than 25% of cars are in private hands. However, the share of company cars in electric cars is 93%
Source: CDV
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Electric cars have so far “crushed” hybrids and plug-in hybrids in the Czech Republic. The number of their registrations grew significantly last year. Last year, 23,074 passenger cars with hybrid-electric drive were registered (+ 82% year-on-year), of which 3,736 (+ 89%) were plug-in hybrids.
Source: SDA
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Gas vehicles are also an area of interest within the National Action Plan for Clean Mobility. And the number of LPG cars has been rising over the past two years. “Last year’s 2,259 LPG vehicles are historically the most,” says Lukáš Kadula from CDV. As many as 88% of LPG vehicle registrations are recorded by the Dacia brand.
Registration of new cars with alternative “fuel” in 2021 (BEV = fully battery electric cars, PHEV = plug-in hybrids, FCEV = cars with hydrogen fuel cells):
Source: CDV
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The opposite, downward trend is in CNG vehicles, last year’s 851 vehicles were at least in 8 years, 78% of registrations were recorded by Škoda with the gas Octavia and Scala.
Last year, nine hydrogen fuel cell electric cars were registered, including 8 Toyota Mirai cars and one Nexo from Hyundai.
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