New registrations of passenger cars and lorries in Sweden, June 2018:
More than 5 million passenger cars on the roads
Statistical news from Statistics Sweden 2018-07-03 9.30
In June 2018, 67 553 passenger cars were newly registered, up 69.4 percent from June last year. This large increase is mainly due to the new bonus malus system that will change the vehicle tax from 1 July 2018. This, according to Transport Analysis’ monthly official statistics on newly registered vehicles.
Among newly registered cars, 66 441 were of the 2016–2018 model year, and 1 112 were older models. During the month, 25 439 passenger cars were deregistered, which means that the total passenger car fleet increased by 41 002 vehicles. The increase also means that there are now more than 5 million passenger cars in traffic.
Seventy-six percent of the cars were registered by businesses and organisations, of which businesses in the car retail trade accounted for 44 percent of total new registrations. Among cars registered by private persons, men accounted for 67 percent of the private persons and women accounted for 33 percent.
In June, 17 658 lorries were newly registered, up 169.0 percent compared with the same month last year. Among the newly registered lorries, 16 997 were light lorries with a weight up to 3.5 tonnes and 661 were heavy lorries with a weight over 3.5 tonnes.
New registrations between January and June 2018
So far this year, new registrations of passenger cars increased by 15.6 percent compared with the same period last year.
A total of 95 560 diesel cars have been registered so far this year, down by 7.7 percent compared with the same period last year.
Passenger cars that can be powered by electricity (hybrid electric and plug-in hybrid), ethanol or gas accounted for 11.7 percent of new registrations this year, compared with 9.5 percent in the same period last year.
Type of vehicle |
January-June
2018 |
January-June
2017 |
Changes percent |
|---|---|---|---|
Passenger cars |
232 187 | 200 872 | 15.6 |
of which petrol |
109 345 | 78 299 | 39.7 |
of which diesel |
95 560 | 103 529 | ‑7.7 |
of which electric |
2 271 | 2 292 | ‑0.9 |
of which hybrid electric |
11 673 | 8 876 | 31.5 |
of which plug-in hybrid |
10 925 | 5 957 | 83.4 |
of which ethanol/ethanol flexi-fuel |
474 | 530 | ‑10.6 |
of which gas /gas bi-fuel |
1 924 | 1 365 | 41.0 |
Motorhomes (subset of passenger cars) |
6 756 | 4 424 | 52.7 |
Lorries |
45 983 | 32 878 | 39.9 |
Busses |
385 | 372 | 3.5 |
Trailers (excl. caravans) |
25 924 | 29 594 | ‑12.4 |
Caravans |
2 439 | 2 769 | ‑11.9 |
Tractors |
4 048 | 3 879 | 4.4 |
Motorcycles |
8 232 | 7 702 | 6.9 |
Class 1 mopeds |
4 833 | 7 850 | ‑38.4 |
Snowmobiles |
4 829 | 4 461 | 8.2 |
Terrain vehicles |
2 088 | 2 483 | ‑15.9 |
Databases containing information for passenger cars on the county/municipality level and fuel for the years 2006–2018 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 behalf. For detailed information on new registrations, please see "Monthly vehicle statistics" available at Transport Analysis or Statistics Sweden.
New registrations comprise all vehicles that were entered into the register during the month. These registrations differ from new registrations in BIL Sweden’s reports. BIL Sweden's data only contains data on cars of the latest three model years and cars that are not directly imported.
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Next publishing will be
New registrations in July will be published on 2 August 2018 at 09:30.
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