Initial registrations of new passenger cars in Ukraine in 2023 increased by 60.6% compared to 2022, to almost 61 thousand, the Ukravtoprom association reported on its Telegram channel on Tuesday.
Toyota took the lead with 10197 cars (+47%), Renault took second place with 5790 (+46%), and Volkswagen took third place with 5627 (2.5 times more).
The top ten also includes Skoda – 4938 cars (+75%); BMW – 4128 (+139%); Hyundai – 2945 (+29%); Mercedes-Benz – 2543 (+52%); Suzuki – 2396 (+192%); Mazda – 2252 (+ 237%) and Nissan – 1975 (+75%).
According to the association, the bestseller of the year was the Renault Duster compact crossover – 5445 cars of this model joined the fleet.
At the same time, in December, Ukrainians purchased 5.9 thousand new passenger cars, which is 53% more than in the same month in 2022 and 9% more than in November 2023. Toyota (972), Renault (678), and Skoda (600) are in the top three.
For its part, the AUTO-Consulting information and analytical group reports on its website that in 2023, more than 65 thousand new passenger cars were sold in Ukraine, which exceeded the result of 2022 by 62.4%.
At the same time, Toyota also took the lead with a 54% increase in sales to 10.74 thousand cars and a market share of 16.5% (against 17.4% a year earlier), and Volkswagen took the second position (against the third in 2022) with a 2.3-fold increase in sales to 7.09 thousand cars and an increase in market share by 2.2 percentage points to 10.9%.
Renault came in third with 5.83 thousand cars sold (up 45.2%).
According to experts, 6 thousand new cars were sold in December, which is slightly (0.5%) less than in November.
“The consequences of the border blockade were felt, but still, compared to December, the market grew by 45%,” the report states.
At the same time, Toyota was definitely in the lead with sales of more than 1 thousand new cars and 17% of the Ukrainian car market, Volkswagen finished second, but, as AUTO-Consulting notes, both official dealers and suppliers of electric vehicles from the Chinese market worked for this result.
The most popular model in December was the Renault Duster, which managed to bypass the Volkswagen ID.4 electric car, which had been leading the way throughout the fall.
As a result, Renault increased its sales by 40% overall, taking third place in the month’s ranking.
Experts also note the success of the Audi brand, whose dealers managed to outperform competitors among premium brands and take 7th place in the market (against 12th in November 2023).
In general, AUTO-Consulting believes that despite the difficulties at the Polish border, which made it difficult to supply cars in the planned volumes, 2023 was “the year of renewal of the Ukrainian car market and growth of its potential.”
“The recovery of the car market was even better than the trend of 2014-2016. The result is similar to 2016, when 64.5 thousand cars were sold. However, it took seven long years to reach 103.6 thousand cars (as in pre-war 2021),” says Oleg Omelnytsky, director of AUTO-Consulting, on his Facebook page.
He noted that in the last two months of last year, a very high share of electric vehicles in the market was recorded – almost 20% (compared to 10% in 2022 and 1.5% in 2021).
“In addition, the share of so-called “gray” dealers has increased significantly – 21%. The last time I remember this was in the 90s and early 2000s,” he wrote.
As reported, according to Ukravtoprom, in 2022, Ukrainians registered 37.9 thousand new passenger cars, 63% less than a year earlier, and according to AUTO-Consulting, sales decreased by 61.5% to 40.08 thousand units.
Initial registrations of electric cars in Ukraine in January-June tripled compared to the same period of 2022 – up to 12.6 thousand units, including 2.8 thousand were new cars, 9.8 thousand – used , reported “Ukravtoprom” in Telegram channel.
At the same time, the share of new cars increased to 22% from 18% in January-June-2022.
As reported, in January-June 2022, 4.145 thousand electric cars were registered – 14% more than in the first half of 2021.
According to the association, the top 5 new electric cars of the first half of this year were formed by Volkswagen ID.4 (899 units), DongFeng/Honda M-NV (497), Volkswagen ID.6 (168), Honda e (146) and BMW iX – 87.
In the used segment, the Nissan Leaf (1,921 units) leads steadily and by a wide margin. Next are Volkswagen e-Golf (940), Tesla Model 3 (908), Volkswagen ID.4 (724) and Tesla Model Y – 637.
Earlier “Ukravtoprom” also reported in the Telegram channel that in the market of new passenger cars in Ukraine in January-June the share of electric cars increased by 4 p.p. – to 10%, the share of hybrids increased to 18% (by 5 p.p.), while the share of cars with gasoline engines decreased from 57% to 49%, diesel cars – to 22% (by 1 p.p.),
“The growing demand for hybrids and battery-powered cars is rapidly changing the structure of the market,” Ukravtoprom noted.
As reported, Ukrainians in 2022 bought 13.6 thousand electric cars – 1.5 times more than a year earlier, while the share of new ones increased to 17% from 14%.
Registrations in Ukraine of new commercial vehicles (trucks and special vehicles) in June amounted to 1,068 units, which is 12% more than in May this year and 2.5 times more than in June 2022, “Ukravtoprom” reported in Telegram channel.
“This is the best result in the last 17 months,” stated in the message.
At the same time, compared to the pre-war June-2021 registrations of commercial cars decreased by 26%.
The top five commercial vehicles on the market in June were: Renault – 356 units; Scania – 127 units; Volkswagen – 67 units; Peugeot – 60 units and Mercedes-Benz – 53 units.
Total, according to the Association, in the first half of the year 5,190 new trucks were added to the Ukrainian park of trucks and special vehicles, which is 61% more than during the same period last year.
In its turn, analytical group Auto-Consulting, analyzing the segment of trucks on its web-site on Tuesday, points out that in June there is again a record of their delivery to the Ukrainian market – 440 units, which is 2.2 times more than in June last year.
“And it is not a situational jump, because according to the results of six months we record the growth of the market by 89%”, – the experts state.
According to the group’s data, in June this segment of the market was headed by Scania, which managed to take 29% of the market, the second result was gained by DAF with 9%. IVECO, Renault, Volvo and Mercedes-Benz also increase their sales.
“There is a segment of trucks of 3.6-8 tons with a gross weight which is developing powerfully, where European producers are more and more present. But Chinese brands have started to actively develop the segment of communal machinery and have already achieved certain success. Now any tender on this theme consists of at least three or four proposals on the chassis of Chinese manufacturers”, – is noted in the report.
According to analysts, the high rate of recovery of the truck market is primarily due to the fact that businesses are trying to increase their own fleets to transport goods through the new logistics corridors.
As it was reported with reference to Ukravtoprom, in 2022 the market of new commercial vehicles was added 6.9 thousand new cars – 2.3 times less than in 2021.
Primary registrations of used cars imported from abroad in April 2023 increased by almost 8% compared to March 2023 – up to 15.3 thousand units, which was the highest number of registrations per month since the beginning of the year, said the association “Ukravtoprom” in Telegram-channel.
The largest share in this segment of the car market belongs to gasoline cars – 45%, followed by diesel cars – 36%, electric cars – 11%, cars with HFO – 5% and hybrids – 3%.
The average age of used cars that switched to Ukrainian plates in April is 11 years.
According to the Association, the top five of the market of used cars compared to March has not changed: the most popular is still Renault Megane – 1273 units, the second result has Volkswagen Golf – 1180 units, the third – Skoda Octavia – 794 units. Volkswagen Passat (694 units) and Ford Focus (377 units) are at the end of the leading five.
Besides, the TOP-10 of the month includes: Nissan Leaf – 366 units; Nissan Qashqai – 337 units; VW Touran – 320 units; Skoda Fabia – 277 units; AUDI A4 – 270 units.
As reported with reference to Ukravtoprom, 5.16 thousand new cars were registered in Ukraine in April, i.e. almost three times less.
“Ukravtoprom” informs that in January-April, 54.5 thousand used cars, imported from abroad, got the first registration in Ukraine, which is 3.3 times more than the sales of new cars during the same period.
Ukrainians in 2022 registered 388.5 thousand imported used foreign cars, which is nearly a quarter less than a year earlier, but more than 10 times more than the market of new cars.
Primary new passenger cars in March this year increased by 21% compared to February this year – up to 4,511 units, said “Ukravtoprom” in Telegram-channel.
The Association says that the demand for passenger cars increased 8 times compared with March of the last year, but only because of the low comparison base (March 2022 was the first month of full-scale invasion of Russia into Ukraine – IF-U).
Toyota remains the leader of registrations – 648 units, second place again belongs to Renault with 438 cars (in February the brand was 5th), third place – to Volkswagen with registrations of 432 cars.
Fourth place went to BMW with 355 cars, and Skoda was at the bottom of the list in March with 346 cars.
Bestseller of the first month of spring in the Ukrainian market of new passenger cars was the crossover Renault Duster, which was chosen by 414 buyers.
At the same time more than a third of March market was formed by 10 popular models – Renault Duster is followed by Hyundai Tucson (171 units), then Mazda CX5 (171), Volkswagen ID.4 (149), Toyota RAV-4 (131), Toyota Camry (110), Suzuki Vitara (105), Volkswagen Touareg (101), DongFeng/Honda M-NV (100) and BMW X7 (99 units).
In total, 11.2 thousand new cars were registered in Ukraine in the first quarter, which is almost as much as in the past, states Ukravtoprom.
