Initial registrations of electric vehicles (new and used) in January-November 2020 decreased by 2% compared to the same period in 2019, to 6,823 units, including 92% of used cars, the Ukrautoprom association reports.
Thus, in the 11 months, the market of electric vehicles turned to negative dynamics, while over the ten months there was still a slight increase (by 1%), despite the drop in sales in October by 15%, and in the seven months, the growth was 7%.
This situation is due to the fact that, according to the association, in November compared to the same month of 2019 the number of registrations of electric cars decreased by almost 28% from November 2019, to 514 units (481 passenger cars and 33 commercial vehicles), which is also almost 22% less than in October 2020.
However, at the same time, the report states, the share of new cars increased to 10% from 6% in November last year, used electric cars from abroad were purchased by 461 persons (31% less than a year earlier), while the demand for new cars rose by 29%, to 53 units.
The most popular passenger electric car remains Nissan Leaf (126 cars were bought in November). The top five cars also include Chevrolet Bolt with 69 units, Tesla Model 3 with 55 units, Tesla Model S with 36 cars, and BMW i3 with 23 vehicles.
Commercial electric vehicle statistics for November were formed by Renault Kangoo Z.E. with 26 vehicles and NISSAN e-NV200 with seven units.
