Car sales in Denmark fell significantly in January. But it was exactly as expected, says the industry.
Car sales in 2024 got off to a really bad start here at home. In fact, sales of new cars fell by as much as 15 percent last month, i.e. when compared to January 2023.
Just 8,848 new passenger cars were registered during the first month of the year. It shows figures from the various car brands.
This is what the industry association De Danske Bilimportorer writes in a press release .
However, it is not something that should come to the back of either the motorists or the state treasury. Indeed, the industry had expected it to look like this.
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According to De Danske Bilimportorer, the decrease can be explained by the latest agreement to keep the registration fee at bay, which only came into force on 1 February.
So there has been a month with higher tax rates on all new cars here at home, and that has made the Danes hold back to that extent.
– The Danes are price sensitive, and therefore electric car sales are affected by a lower minimum deduction in the registration tax. Fortunately, the deduction will be raised from February, when we expect that electricity will again be put on especially for electric car sales," says the industry association's director Mads Rorvig.
The same Mads Rorvig also believes that it is high time that the Danes correct and only buy electric cars. Read more about it here .
But the declining sales do not come as a surprise at DI Bilbranchen either. Director Thomas Moller Sorensen explains:
– The relatively low sales in January are another reminder to Christiansborg that Danish car buyers are very price conscious. Although it is not a lot of money, the slightly higher basic deduction from 1 February has caused many buyers of electric cars to wait to buy their electric car.
