In the first quarter of 2025, the new registrations of road vehicles for passenger transport increased across all categories, namely: mopeds and motorcycles (+36.3%), passenger cars (+10.6%) and buses and minibuses (+1.4%) compared to the first quarter of 2024. In terms of new registrations of new road vehicles for passenger transport, rises were reported for mopeds and motorcycles(+54.4%) and passenger cars (+1.4%), and a 6.1% drop was recorded for buses and minibuses.
In terms of new registrations of road vehicles for goods transport, rises were recorded for trailers and semitrailers (+7.5%) and road tractors (+1.1%), and a fall was reported for lorries (special purpose road vehicles included) (-0.4%). New registrations of new road vehicles for goods transport increased for trailers and semitrailers (+6.0%) and decreased for lorries (special purpose road vehicles included) (-28.4%) and road tractors (-19.1%).
In the first quarter of 2025, the new registrations of road vehicles for passenger transport inched 0.7% higher compared to the fourth quarter of 2024 and the new registrations of road vehicles for goods transport were up 6.3%.
At the end of the first quarter of 2025, 64.4% of the road vehicles registered classified according to the European emissions standards were Euro 4, Euro 5 or Euro 6 vehicles and 10.0% were Non-Euro vehicles.
In the category of passenger cars, the highest share was held by Euro 4 vehicles, namely 33.1%; in the buses and minibuses category, the greatest number of vehicles (namely 22.3%) was recorded by Euro 3 vehicles; while for mopeds and motorcycles, the bulk of vehicles in this category (namely 23.5%) were classified as Non-Euro.
The Euro 3 vehicles prevailed in the category of lorries (27.1%), the Euro 6 vehicles prevailed in the category of road tractors (44.9%), and the bulk of vehicles in the category of special purpose road vehicles (namely 22.3%) were classified as Non-Euro.