In the third quarter of 2024, new registrations of road vehicles for passenger transport increased for mopeds and motorcycles (+33.3%) and passenger cars (+3.5%) and decreased for buses and minibuses (-22.7%) compared to the third quarter of 2023. In terms of new registrations of new road vehicles for passenger transport, a rise was reported for mopeds and motorcycles (+46.0%), and drops were recorded for buses and minibuses (-22.5%) and passenger cars (-13.7%).
In terms of new registrations of road vehicles for goods transport, rises were reported for lorries (special purpose road vehicles included) (+8.8%) and trailers and semitrailers (+5.1%), while road tractors saw a 1.5% decline. New registrations of new road vehicles for goods transport increased for trailers and semitrailers (+7.1%) but decreased for road tractors (-22.2%) and lorries (special purpose road vehicles included) (-2.7%).
In the third quarter of 2024, new registrations of road vehicles for passenger transport fell by 7.0% compared to the second quarter of 2024 and the new registrations of road vehicles for goods transport were down 8.6%.
At the end of the third quarter of 2024, 63.4% of the road vehicles registered classified according to the European emissions standards were Euro 4, Euro 5 or Euro 6 vehicles and 10.3% were Non-Euro vehicles.
In the passenger cars category, the highest share was held by Euro 4 vehicles, namely 33.6%; in the buses and minibuses category, the greatest number of vehicles (namely 23.0%) was recorded by Euro 3 vehicles; while for mopeds and motorcycles, the greatest number of vehicles in this category (namely 24.4%) were classified as Non-Euro.
The Euro 3 vehicles prevailed in the lorries category (27.6%), the Euro 6 vehicles prevailed in the road tractors category (43.1%), and the greatest number of vehicles in the category of special purpose road vehicles (namely 22.9%) were classified as Non-Euro.