North Rhine-Westphalia: Demand for electric cars is increasing: Registrations have doubled

Düsseldorf (dpa / lnw) - There are significantly more electric cars on the roads of North Rhine-Westphalia than before. In 2021, around 131,000 electric vehicles were registered in the federal state, almost twice as many as a year earlier (63,000), the state statistics office announced on Monday in Düsseldorf. The reasons for this are likely to have been state subsidies and a larger supply on the market. Not so long ago, electric cars were almost a rarity, in 2018 there were only 9,000 such registrations in NRW. However, the latest figures show that Stromer have become a mass business.