Registration of New Vehicles

The number of newly registered electrically powered passenger cars increased by 36.8% to 9 242, the share related to all new registered passenger cars rose from 2.0% to 2.8%. Electric cars were mostly registered in Vienna (share: 19.9%), followed by Lower Austria (17.8%), Upper Austria (16.8%) and Styria (14.8%). Their registrations were predominantly undertaken by legal persons, companies and regional authorities (80.9% of new electric passenger car registrations), the share of private registrations declined from 19.9% in 2018 to currently 19.1%.

A comparison of the ten most important passenger car makes 2019, representing about two thirds of all new car registrations, shows that VW remained market leader with a share of 16.0%, although registration numbers decreased by 7.5%. VW was followed by Skoda (share: 8.3%) and Seat (share: 6.0%), whose new registrations rose by 7.3% and 5.7% respectively. Registrations of Ford declined (-2.8%), whereas BMW reported a plus of 3.2%. The other top ten makes developed negatively: Renault -4.5%, Opel -10.8%, Hyundai -9.4%, Mercedes -6.8% and Fiat -8.9%.

In 2019, registrations of new lorries developed slightly positive (+0.2%), reaching a new high of 48 042. Heavy lorries (category (cat.) N3; above 12 t gross vehicle weight (gvw) as well as lorries from 3.5 t to 12 t gvw (cat. N2) documented increases of 7.9% and 2.5%, respectively. Whereas the light commercial vehicles (lorries up to 3.5 t gvw; cat. N1) – the most important category – faced minor losses of 0.5%. For tractors used for agriculture and forestry (6 031 vehicles) an increase of 11.2% was reported. In 2018, new registrations had fallen by 19.3%. The number of new registrations of articulated lorries fell by 11.1% to 3 465

Newly registered two-wheelers showed an overall increase of 6.6% to 40 660 vehicles in 2019. The number of new motorcycle registrations increased by 6.4%, that of scooters by 7.1%. The two-wheelers had reached the highest value in 2008 with a total of 53 255 new registrations. Of the 12 964 newly registered scooters, 1 902 or 14.7% had an electric drive (share: +4.7%), while only 2.0% of the new motorcycles were powered electrically (550 vehicles; +75.2%).

Average CO₂-emissions of newly registered passenger cars 2000 to 2019 (provisional results)

On behalf of the Environment Agency Austria (Umweltbundesamt GmbH) and in accordance with the regulation (EC) No 443/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 April 2009 setting emission performance standards for new passenger cars, Statistics Austria evaluates the CO₂-emissions of newly registered passenger cars compiled on basic data transferred by Austria’s association of insurance companies (VVO).

Provisional results 2019 showed that the average CO₂-emissions - based on measurements within the framework of the New European Driving Cycle (NEDC) - of petrol and diesel driven passenger cars amounted to 128 g/km and 133 g/km. According to the new „Worldwide Harmonised Light Vehicles Test Procedure“ (WLTP), the average value for newly registered petrol cars in 2019 was 150 g/km, for diesel cars it reached 163 g/km.