In August 2022, Russians purchased 180 new electric vehicles, 6.7% lower than a year ago, but 31.4% higher than in July. Experts of the agency "AUTOSTAT" came to this conclusion after processing and analyzing the relevant data of JSC "Electronic Passport". But according to the results of eight months of 2022, the market of new electric vehicles in our country, on the contrary, is showing the growth: during this period, 1,595 such vehicles were purchased, which is 30.5% higher than in January-August 2021.
According to the results of August, American Tesla took the first place among the brands in the segment of electric vehicles with a result of 48 units. The German brand Volkswagen (44 units) is practically “stepping on its heels”, it is the second one. Audi is the third one (16 units). The top five also included German BMW (13 units) and Porsche (10 units). It should be noted that the model variety of electric cars purchased in August in our market has increased significantly (23 versus 16 models in August 2021), but at the same time, almost a half of them were purchased in the amount of 1-3 units.
In the model ranking of August, the leader in the segment of electric vehicles has changed. Now the podium belongs to a newcomer - Volkswagen ID.4 with 27 units, followed by two Teslas - Tesla Model Y (20 units) and Tesla Model 3 (19 units). The threshold of 10 units was also crossed by BMW-iX.
