We buy record number of cars: One brand is particularly popular

Danish car buyers will increasingly have cars in one or other extent, have been electrified. Indeed, both the sales of hybrid cars and plug-in hybrid record in

Ann McDonald
Ann McDonald
09 January 2020 Thursday 21:00
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We buy record number of cars: One brand is particularly popular

Danish car buyers will increasingly have cars in one or other extent, have been electrified. Indeed, both the sales of hybrid cars and plug-in hybrid record in 2019.

In the last year, sold 14.000 ordinary hybrid vehicles, and the clearly largest player in the market is still japanese Toyota. For the first time in history, rounded out the Toyota in the last year, with 10.000 sold hybrid cars in Denmark on a year with a total sales 10.110 hybrid vehicles. This is an increase of 12 percent compared with 2018, which rolled 8993 Toyota-hybrid cars out from the dealers.

at the same time, for the eighth year in a row, a new sales record for the japanese automobile giant. With sales in 2019 accounted Toyota for 71 percent of sales of hybrid cars in Denmark - equivalent to just under three out of four sold-in hybrid electric vehicles.

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Denmark's most popular hybrid car in 2019 was the Toyota Yaris Hybrid, with a total of 2793 registered cars. The Yaris Hybrid has now been the most popular hybrid car in the eight year in a row, but got for the first time really battle to the line by another car, namely the new Toyota Corolla Hybrid.


They are not quite as popular as the regular hybrid vehicles, but the danes have yet to a far greater extent than in the past thrown the money plug-in hybrid cars, where you can connect the car to an electrical outlet to let the built-in battery up. Thus there was in 2019 sold 3885 plug-in hybrid, which is an increase of 24.2 percent compared to the year before. In 2018 were sold 3127 plug-in hybrids, which was already a big leap compared to the 620, which was sold in 2017.

Sales of plug-in hybrid vehicles are really come through on the Danish market. The positive development is due to the market in general is ripe for new and more environmentally friendly solutions. Plug-in hybridteknologien is a sensible stepping stone in the green transition, as the fear of running out of power does not exist, and at the same time you get the opportunity to become familiar with the el-technology. It is therefore a type of technology that fits many mobility needs in everyday life, says Gunni Mikkelsen, director, Danish car importers.

the Most popular plug-in hybridmærke among Danish car buyers in 2019 was Kia, with sales in 1987 of plug-in hybrid vehicles. Second most popular brand was Mitsubishi with 552 cars. Hyundai was number three with 436 cars.

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Updated: 09.01.2020 21:00