Registrations in Ukraine of new and used electric cars in 2022 increased 1.5 times compared to 2021 – up to 13.318 thousand units, including new ones accounted for 16.9% against 14.2%, said the Federation of Automobile Industry of Ukraine (FAU) based on data from the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
According to information on the Federation’s website, including in December compared to the same month-2021, the market increased by 68% to 1,559 units, which was also 9.6% higher than in November-2022.
“The firings, the power outage, the crisis – didn’t bring the market down. It showed another increase. And something happened in the top 10 that seemed impossible a few years ago – the leader has changed. And this is not Tesla, which came on the heels of Nissan – in first place went Volkswagen, rising for the year by four steps, “- said in the FAU.
At the end of the year VW took 20.7% of the market of electric cars, increasing sales by more than five times – up to 2.754 thousand units. The leader of the previous year Nissan with a share of 18.8% became the second, and sales of this brand grew by 13% – to 2,509 thousand units. Tesla, which was in second place in 2021, was the third with an increase in sales by a quarter – to 2,089 cars and the market share of 15.7%.
Fourth place, like a year before, went to Renault – 6,5% of the market, and the fifth place went to Honda (+6 positions) with a share of 5,7%, having increased registration almost five times – to 756 units.
At the same time, Chevrolet, which ranked third in 2021, moved down to #10 with a two-fold decrease in registrations to 397 units by the end of 2022.
The other brands in the top 10 from the sixth to the ninth place (Hyundai, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Audi) increased their registrations.
At the same time, Nissan Leaf continues to hold the first place in the ranking of models with a large gap (the share decreased to 17.8% from 24.6% a year earlier), and VW id4 came in second place with a share of 10.7%. The Tesla Model 3 lost one position in the ranking and took 7.1% of the market. The VW e-Golf and Renault Zoe are on the fourth and fifth positions.
Chevrolet Bolt EV being in the top three in 2021 moved to the ninth position with the market share of 2.6% (against 8.9%).
According to the statistics, the structure of electric vehicle registrations by year of manufacture, last year the most registered cars were 2021 cars – 2,642 units, followed by 2022 cars, 2019 cars – 2,268 units. – 2,268 units, 2019. – 1,490 units, and 2020. – 1281 cars.
As reported with reference to FAU data, in 2021, registrations of electric cars in Ukraine increased by 18.9% compared with 2020 – up to 8,541 units, including new cars accounted for 14.2% against 8.9% a year earlier.
