Interest in electric vehicles in Ukraine in May (according to users’ responses to announcements) against the backdrop of a shortage of gasoline and diesel grew 7 times compared to May last year, for electric scooters and gyro scooters – three times, for the purchase of electric scooters – 4.7 times, according to the press service of the online service OLX.
“In April, Ukrainians faced a shortage of gasoline and diesel, and since then they have been increasingly asking for “green” modes of transport,” the company said in a press release on Monday.
The supply also increased – if at the end of April sellers offered 226 electric cars and 114 hybrids, then in May the number of such ads increased by almost 3.6 and 4.7 times, respectively.
According to the response to one ad in May, Ukrainians were most interested in Opel – almost 11 potential buyers per electric car, Renault and Nissan received an average of eight responses.
A jump in demand, according to OLX Auto, for motorcycles, scooters and scooters was noted from May 23 to May 29, and the most interested in offers were in Kyiv, Odessa and Lviv regions.
At the same time, 127.6 thousand times responded to advertisements for the sale of an electric scooter or gyro scooter in May (4.7 times more than for electric scooters and 46.5 times for electric motorcycles), the leader in demand is the Kyiv region, followed by Lviv and Odessa.
Earlier, the association “Ukravtoprom” in its telegram channel reported that in May, against the backdrop of the fuel crisis, the Ukrainian fleet of electric vehicles (passenger cars and commercial vehicles) grew by 63% by May 2021 – up to 1016 cars (the best figure since the beginning of the year), with the share of new ones rose to 28% against 11% in May last year.
Of the registered 984 units. new passenger electric cars amounted to 287 units. – 67% more than in May last year, and among 32 units. there were no commercial new ones.
In total, in January-May, 3,090 electric vehicles were registered in Ukraine for the first time, which is 2.5% more than a year earlier (the share of new ones is 20%), and Nissan Leaf remains the most popular (567 cars).
TESLA Model 3 is in second place (263 units), Volkswagen e-Golf is third (156 units).
The RENAULT Kangoo Z.E remains the market leader in commercial electric vehicles. – 77 registrations.
