Never before have so many Danes, as was the case in 2023, privately leased new cars. The reason is the uncertainty surrounding electric cars sounds.
The prices of new electric cars have been in a constant limbo since Tesla drastically reduced the price for the first time in early 2023.
Since then, it has happened several times, and it causes uncertainty among the Danes. To be on the safe side, several drivers therefore choose to lease privately.
This can be seen in the figures when car sales for 2023 are calculated. Fully 20 percent of the new car market was private leasing, and that has never happened before.
That's what Finance writes.
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Danes privately leased as many as 34,000 factory-new cars last year. To that must be added the drastic price reductions on electric cars in particular. Something we have also already seen this year.
– Car buyers today face a technological uncertainty that they have never experienced before. Therefore, many see leasing as a kind of insurance against being caught between two chairs in changeable times, says Thomas Moller Sorensen, director of DI Bilbranchen.
Tesla opened the ball in 2024 by first significantly reducing the price of Denmark's most popular car, then launched another measure, which caused FDM to warn the Danes, and this week Skoda has tried to shave up to DKK 71,000 off the price of an Enyaq.
