More people want their own car because of Corona: electric drive is booming | Tyrolean daily newspaper online

Paris – In the corona pandemic, significantly more people than before prefer to drive their own car. Demand for electric cars in particular is increasing. That was the result of two studies that were published this weekend.

“87 percent of consumers worldwide prefer the use of a private vehicle in order to be safe on the road,” said the management consultancy Capgemini after a survey of 11,000 consumers. At the beginning of the pandemic, it was only 57 percent.

Pandemic makes own vehicle more attractive

According to this, 78 percent of respondents worldwide prefer “their own vehicle to public transport”. 81 percent of those surveyed want to avoid carpooling because of health concerns. 72 percent said that “they appreciate having their own vehicle at any time more than they did before the pandemic”.

The proportion of respondents who would like to buy their own car in the next twelve months has increased from 35 to 46 percent worldwide since April. Cheap car loans, government grants for electric cars and an economic recovery after the pandemic should drive demand, the business consultants said.

China is still the largest market for e-cars

A study by the management consultancy PwC showed that there is increasing demand for electric cars in Europe. China is still by far the largest market for fully electric vehicles – but sales in Europe doubled last year, and sales of plug-in hybrids even tripled. New models are likely to “ensure great sales growth in 2021”, said study director Christoph Stürmer – especially since public and private charging stations are now being promoted.

According to PwC, 466,000 battery cars and 393,000 plug-in hybrids were sold in the five largest European car markets – Germany, Great Britain, France, Italy, Spain – more than half of them in the last quarter. The market share of battery cars rose to 5.5 percent, the share of plug-in hybrids to 4.7 percent.

In China, more than a million fully electric cars were sold, but just under 250,000 plug-in hybrids. This corresponds to an increase of around 15 percent compared to the previous year and a combined market share of a good 6 percent. (APA, dpa)