In the fourth quarter of 2021, new registrations of road vehicles for freight transport fell by 17.1% compared to the fourth quarter of 2020.
In the fourth quarter of 2021, the share of the new registrations of imported used passenger cars in the total new registrations of passenger cars was 73.3%, an increase of 1.6 percentage points compared to the same quarter of 2020.
In the fourth quarter of 2021, new registrations of road vehicles for passenger transport decreased for all categories as follows: for mopeds and motorcycles (-35.1%), for buses and minibuses (-20.7%) and for passenger cars (-16.2%). As regards new registrations of new road vehicles for passenger transport, drops were reported for all categories, namely: mopeds and motorcycles (-42.8%), buses and minibuses (-29.7%) and passenger cars (-21.0%).
New registrations of road vehicles for goods transport recorded declines for all categories, namely: lorries (special purpose road vehicles included) (-20.1%), trailers and semitrailers (-15.3%) and road tractors (-5.3%). The new registrations of new road vehicles for goods transport increased for road tractors (+52.1%) and decreased for trailers and semitrailers (-7.1%) and for lorries (special purpose road vehicles included) (-0.8%).
In the fourth quarter of 2021, new registrations of road vehicles for passenger transport dropped 16.2% compared to the third quarter of 2021 and the new registrations of road vehicles for goods transport decreased by 13.7%.
At the end of the fourth quarter of 2021, 57.6% of the road vehicles registered, classified according to the European emissions standards, were Euro 4, Euro 5 or Euro 6 vehicles and 11.9% were non-euro vehicles.
Within the passenger cars category, the highest share was that of Euro 4 vehicles, namely 35.2%; within the buses and minibuses category, the greatest number of vehicles (namely 25.5%) were Euro 3 vehicles; as regards the mopeds and motorcycles, the greatest number of vehicles within this category (namely 29.6%) were classified as non-euro.
The Euro 3 vehicles prevailed at the lorries category (30.1%), the Euro 6 vehicles prevailed at the road tractors category (34.1%), and the greatest number of vehicles at the category of special purpose road vehicles (namely 26.0%) were classified as non-euro.