(29.03.2023) The proportion of electric vehicles will increase significantly in the coming years. According to the industry association auto-suisse, almost half of all cars in circulation in 2025 will be rechargeable from the electricity grid, compared with about a quarter in 2022.
This anonymously polled survey of auto importers also predicts that 31.8% of vehicles registered in 2023 will be plug-in (i.e., fully electric, or hybrids with a grid-charge option, commonly referred to as "plug-in hybrids"). This rise of nearly 6 points year-over-year is expected to continue to reach 49.7% of the automotive market share in 2025.
Electric propulsion is also expected to gain ground in the light commercial vehicle category, rising from around 10 percent currently to almost a quarter (23.3 percent) by the end of 2025, not including plug-in hybrids (+2.4 percent). Furthermore, the Swiss heavy-duty vehicle fleet is also expected to go electric: by the end of the decade, the association estimates that more than one in two trucks on the road will be electrically powered.
Although the number of newly registered electric delivery vehicles has increased, Switzerland fell to ninth place in the Europe-wide comparison of market share for plug-in vehicles between 2021 and 2022, says Donato Bochicchio, Vice President of auto-suisse and Managing Director of Ford Motor Company (Switzerland) AG.
To encourage further expansion of the electric car market, auto-suisse is calling on the authorities to create the right framework requirements, such as maintaining the tax exemption for electric vehicles beyond 2023, and ensuring the development of the electricity grid.
Last modification 29.03.2023
