In the first quarter of 2024, the new registrations of road vehicles for passenger transport increased for all categories compared to the first quarter of 2023, namely: mopeds and motorcycles (+16.1%), passenger cars (+4.2%) and buses and minibuses (+2.8%). In terms of new registrations of new road vehicles for passenger transport, rises were reported for buses and minibuses (+41.2%), mopeds and motorcycles (+17.2%), and a decline of 10.1% was recorded by passenger cars.
As regards new registrations of road vehicles for goods transport, rises were reported for all categories, namely, road tractors (+11.4%), trailers and semitrailers (+9.8%) and lorries (special purpose road vehicles included) (+9.1%). New registrations of new road vehicles for goods transport increased for lorries (special purpose road vehicles included) (+13.2%) and trailers and semitrailers (+11.5%) and decreased for road tractors (-5.6%).
In the first quarter of 2024, new registrations of road vehicles for passenger transport rose by 2.7% compared to the fourth quarter of 2023 and the new registrations of road vehicles for goods transport were up 11.3%.
At the end of the first quarter of 2024, 62.4% of road vehicles registered classified according to the European emissions standards were Euro 4, Euro 5 or Euro 6 vehicles and 10.6% were Non-Euro vehicles.
In the category of passenger vehicles, the highest share was held by Euro 4 vehicles, namely 34.1%; in the category of buses and minibuses, the greatest number of vehicles (namely 23.6%) were Euro 3 vehicles; as regards mopeds and motorcycles, the greatest number of vehicles in this category (namely 25.7%) were classified as Non-Euro.
The Euro 3 vehicles prevailed in the category of lorries (28.2%), the Euro 6 vehicles prevailed in the category of road tractors (41.4%), and the greatest number of vehicles in the category of special purpose road vehicles (namely 23.5%) were classified as Non-Euro.