Vehicles New registrations of passenger cars and lorries in Sweden, March 2018:
Registration of new cars decreased by 3.8 percent in March
Statistical news from Statistics Sweden 2018-04-04 9.30
In March 2018, 37 957 passenger cars were newly registered, down 3.8 percent from March last year. The decrease is due to the calendar effect, as in March 2018, there are two less registration days than in the same month last year. This is because Easter was in March this year and in April last year. This, according to Transport Analysis’ monthly official statistics on newly registered vehicles.
Among the newly registered cars, 37 367 were of the 2016–2018 model year, and 590 were older models. During the month, 22 752 passenger cars were deregistered, which means that the total passenger car fleet increased by 15 205 vehicles.
Seventy-one percent of the cars were registered by businesses and organisations, of which businesses in the car retail trade accounted for 35 percent of total new registrations. Among cars registered by private persons, men accounted for 66 percent of the private persons and women accounted for 34 percent.
In March, 6 354 lorries were newly registered, down 3.5 percent compared with same month last year. Among the newly registered lorries, 5 676 were light lorries with a weight up to 3.5 tonnes and 678 were heavy lorries with a weight over 3.5 tonnes.
New registrations between January and March 2018
So far this year, new registrations of passenger cars have decreased by 2.6 percent compared with the same period last year.
In total this year, 37 469 diesel cars has been registered, down by 22.1 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 13,6 percent of new registrations this year, compared with 10.3 percent in the same period last year.
| Type of vehicle | January-March 2018 | January-March 2017 | Changes percent |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Passenger cars
|
89 587 | 91 999 | ‑2.6 |
|
of which petrol
|
39 937 | 34 410 | 16.1 |
|
of which diesel
|
37 469 | 48 075 | ‑22.1 |
|
of which electric
|
1 264 | 1 067 | 18.5 |
|
of which hybrid electric
|
4 774 | 4 573 | 4.4 |
|
of which plug-in hybrid
|
5 044 | 2 780 | 81.4 |
|
of which ethanol/ethanol flexi-fuel
|
218 | 272 | ‑19.9 |
|
of which gas /gas bi-fuel
|
872 | 809 | 7.8 |
|
Motorhomes (subset of passenger cars)
|
912 | 966 | ‑5.6 |
|
Lorries
|
15 170 | 15 454 | ‑1.8 |
|
Busses
|
166 | 193 | ‑14.0 |
|
Trailers (excl. caravans)
|
7 684 | 8 856 | ‑13.2 |
|
Caravans
|
541 | 640 | ‑15.5 |
|
Tractors
|
1 633 | 1 570 | 4.0 |
|
Motorcycles
|
1 838 | 2 254 | ‑18.5 |
|
Class 1 mopeds
|
926 | 1 883 | ‑50.8 |
|
Snowmobiles
|
4 565 | 4 032 | 13.2 |
|
Terrain vehicles
|
844 | 1 137 | ‑25.8 |
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 request. For detailed information on new registrations, please see "Monthly vehicle statistics" available at Transport Analysis or Statistics Sweden.
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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