Road vehicles - New registrations

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Overview

In 2023, 356 538 motor vehicles were newly registered in Switzerland: 10.6% more than in 2022, but 12.9% less than in 2019, the last pre-covid year.

Passenger cars accounted for almost three quarters of new registrations. A total of 255 981 cars were newly put into circulation on Swiss roads in 2023: 11.6% more than in 2022, but 18.1% fewer than in 2019. Once again there was an increase in electric cars: in 2023, 20.7% of newly registered passenger cars were purely electric, 3.0 percentage points more than in 2022 (17.7%).

New registrations – annual data

	2023	Change 2022/23, as %
Total motor vehicles (excl. mopeds)	356 538	+10.6
Passenger cars	255 981	+11.6
of which petrol-driven	85 205	–1.2
of which diesel-driven	23 940	–10.0
of which conventional hybrid vehicles1	70 732 r	+21,9 r
of which plug-in hybrid vehicles1	23 094 r	+29,7 r
of which all-electric vehicles	52 929	+30.7
Passenger transport vehicles	8 382	+5.1
of which camper vans	7 239	+1.5
Goods transport vehicles	35 032	+21.0
of which light vehicles (up to 3.5 t)	30 529	+21.2
of which heavy vehicles (more than 3.5 t)	4 503	+20.2
Agricultural vehicles	2 911	+5.7
Industrial vehicles	4 835	+7.0
Motorcycles	49 397	+1.2
Total trailers	19 552	–2.1

1) Petrol-electric, diesel-electric
r rectified Source: FSO, FEDRO – New registrations of road vehicles (IVS)

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