Registered vehicles, June 2017:
New cars increased by 4.3 percent in June
Statistical news from Statistics Sweden and Transport Analysis 2017-07-04 9.30
In June 2017 a total of 39 881 passenger cars were newly registered, an increase of 4.3 percent compared with June last year. This is according to Transport Analysis’ monthly official statistics on newly registered vehicles.
Diesel cars made up 50.7 percent of the new registrations, a decrease of 2.2 percentage points compared with June last year. Passenger cars that can be powered by electricity, ethanol or gas made up 8.6 percent of the new registrations, compared with 7.4 percent in June 2016.
Sixty-nine percent of the cars were registered by businesses and organisations, of which businesses in the car retail trade accounted for 30 percent of total new registrations. Among the cars registered by private persons, men accounted for 67 percent and women for the remaining 33 percent.
Among the newly registered cars, 38 630 were of model year 2015–2017, and 1 251 were older models. During the month, 19 361 passenger cars were deregistered, which means that the total passenger car fleet increased by 20 520 vehicles.
New registrations of lorries increased by 20 percent in June compared with same month last year. New registrations of buses, all-terrain vehicles, motorcycles and caravans decreased compared with same month last year.
Type of vehicle |
June
2016 |
June
2017 |
Changes percent |
|---|---|---|---|
Passenger cars |
38 237 | 39 881 | 4.3 |
of which petrol |
15 178 | 16 237 | 7.0 |
of which diesel |
20 204 | 20 206 | 0.0 |
of which electric |
219 | 429 | 95.9 |
of which hybrid electric |
969 | 1 574 | 62.4 |
of which plug-in hybrid |
1 137 | 1 185 | 4.2 |
of which ethanol/ethanol flexi-fuel |
106 | 77 | ‑27.4 |
of which gas /gas bi-fuel |
417 | 170 | ‑59.2 |
Percent of cars with MB2013 |
15.6 | 14.5 | |
Motorhomes (subset of passenger cars) |
992 | 1 152 | 16.1 |
Lorries |
5 471 | 6 565 | 20.0 |
Busses |
166 | 37 | ‑77.7 |
Trailers (excl. caravans) |
5 338 | 6 142 | 15.1 |
Caravans |
609 | 567 | ‑6.9 |
Tractors |
660 | 906 | 37.3 |
Motorcycles |
1 806 | 1 555 | ‑13.9 |
Class 1 mopeds |
1 670 | 2 058 | 23.2 |
Snowmobiles |
22 | 25 | 13.6 |
Terrain vehicles |
585 | 452 | ‑22.7 |
Databases containing information for passenger cars on the county/municipality level and fuel for the years 2006–2017 are available in the Statistical Database.
Transport Analysis is the government agency responsible for the statistics and Statistics Sweden has produced the statistics at its request. For detailed information on new registrations, please see "Monthly vehicle statistics" available on the Transport Analysis website or Statistics Sweden's website.
The new registrations comprise all vehicles during the month that have been entered into the register. These registrations differ from the new registrations in BIL Sweden’s reports. BIL Sweden's data only contains data on cars with the latest three model years, and cars that are not directly imported.
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Next publishing will be
New registrations for July will be published on 2 August 2017 at 09:30.
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