Auto-enrolments increase in September
Specifically, 6.6 percent more cars were registered in the past month compared to September 2021. With a total of 20,947 new passenger cars, around 1,300 more vehicles came onto the roads than a year ago. “This was the first monthly increase since February 2022,” said the Swiss Auto Import Association on Tuesday.
The growth is also due to a stabilization of the supply chains in the automotive industry. The “difficult supply situation” with supplier products such as cable harnesses has now normalized somewhat, it is said. Therefore, more cars were produced and delivered again. The industry is also struggling with the availability of microchips and other electronic components.
From an annual perspective, the numbers are still well behind 2021. In concrete terms, almost 10 percent fewer new matriculations were registered after the three quarters of the year than at the first same point in the year. However, the cumulative deficit has reduced to 9.7 percent from the previous 13 percent due to the strong month of September.
Share of alternative drives stable
According to Auto Schweiz, the proportion of alternative drive systems in the total number of new registrations has fluctuated around the 50 percent mark for months. In other words, every second vehicle registered in Switzerland and the Principality of Liechtenstein no longer has a pure combustion engine.
According to the association, the number of electric, hybrid, gas and hydrogen drives has made up almost half of the new car market since the beginning of the year with 80,292 new registrations or 49.4 percent. However, compared to the previous year’s value of 41.8 percent, this represents noticeable growth as before.
According to Auto Schweiz, full and mild hybrid drives in particular have grown particularly strongly in these twelve months, which are now quickly claiming a quarter of the market share, including purely electric vehicles, which account for a share of 16.3 percent.
The growing number of alternatives is also primarily at the expense of pure petrol vehicles, which have fallen from a new car share of 43.8 to 38.4 percent compared to the previous year, but still make up the vast majority of new registrations.