{"id":333138,"date":"2024-06-17T10:07:13","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T08:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=333138"},"modified":"2024-06-17T10:07:16","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T08:07:16","slug":"germany-may-sales-of-electric-cars-plummet-30-6-compared-to-year-earlier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=333138","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0Germany May Sales Of Electric Cars Plummet 30.6% Compared To Year Earlier"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From NoTricksZone<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0P Gosselin<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Back to fossil fuels!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The figures for the registration of new electric cars in Germany are looking increasingly awful. In May 2024, the\u00a0Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA) reported<\/a>\u00a0that it had registered only 29,708 vehicles with electric motors.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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May e-car sales in Germany plummet more than 30% compared to a year earlier. AI image Chat GPT.\u00a0<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

That is 30.6% down on the result for the same month last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CO2 emissions of new German cars also rose 3.3%\u2026indicating the green transition has stalled and is reversing.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hat-tip: Blackout News<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The KBA also adds that 89,498 passenger cars were equipped with a gasoline engine \u2013 an increase of 2.1 percent compared to the same month last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

44,893 new cars were diesel-powered, an increase of 3.2 percent compared to the same month last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

71,451 new cars had a hybrid drive in May 2024, accounting for a share of 30.2% (-0.3%), including 14,038 plug-in hybrids (+1.7%\/5.9%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the KBA, the average CO2 emissions of new passenger car registrations rose by +3.3% and amounted to 124.0 g\/km.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Back to fossil fuels!<\/p>\n

The figures for the registration of new electric cars in Germany are looking increasingly awful. In May 2024, the Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA) reported that it had registered only 29,708 vehicles with electric motors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":333143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691818076,691818081,691818051,691820837],"class_list":{"0":"post-333138","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-co2","9":"tag-electric-cars","10":"tag-germany","11":"tag-green-transition","13":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/0-electric-cars-46.jpeg?fit=1600%2C1067&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1oFc","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":361920,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=361920","url_meta":{"origin":333138,"position":0},"title":"2024 Registrations of New Electric Cars Plummet 27.5% In Germany\u2026\u201d Petrol Dominates\u201d","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"13\/01\/2025","format":false,"excerpt":"How\u2019s the Green New Deal working out in Germany? 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