Ecological cars are gaining market share; in 2021 enrollments were twice as high as in 2020

By rbj
The registrations of ecological cars (100% electric and plug-in hybrids), as well as full hybrid, doubled in Romania, during 2021, and the market share reached 15.5%, 2.2 times higher compared to the previous year, shows the data of the Association of Automobile Manufacturers and Importers (APIA), published on Thursday.
In the ranking of the best-selling 100% electric cars, in the 12 months of last year, in the first place is Dacia Spring, with 3,068 units, model launched in 2021, followed by Volkswagen Up! – with 435 units (+ 139%) and Hyundai Kona (384 units, + 114.5%).
In terms of Plug-in cars, the top 3 models are driven by Renault Captur – with 269 units (14 times increase compared to 2020), Ford Kuga (261 units, + 203.5%), and Hyundai Tucson ( 229 units, version launched in 2021).
At the same time, the category of hybrid cars, without recharging from external sources, has Toyota Corolla in the first place – with 2,134 units, up 76.2% compared to 2020, followed by Toyota C-HR (2,093 units, +32.7 %) and Toyota RAV4 (1,610 units, + 75.6%).
On the other hand, APIA data show that, overall, car registrations fell by 4.1% in 2021 compared to the previous year, a margin in which light commercial vehicles and minibusses jumped 15.2%, and heavy vehicles and buses an increase of 32.9%.
On the national market, the hierarchy of brands, in cars and commercial vehicles, after 12 months in 2021, is led by Dacia (37,922 units), followed by Ford (11,516), Renault (10,147), Toyota (9,643), Hyundai (9,532), Volkswagen (9,074), Skoda (7,967), Mercedes-Benz (6,962), Suzuki (4,397) and Peugeot (3,965).
In fact, of the total market, cars represent about 82%, and last year as a whole there is a general decrease of 4.1%, compared to the same period in 2020.
Depending on the type of fuel of registered cars, the share of gasoline cars decreased by 0.3 percentage points compared to the same period last year, reaching a share of 65.7%. At the same time, cars with diesel engines recorded a decline of 8.1 percentage points from one to another, with a share of 18.8% of the total.
Most car purchases in the 12 months of 2021 were made by legal entities, which cover 54% of total car purchases, the remaining 46% is for individuals.