Drop in vehicle registrations in Switzerland

BERN, SWITZERLAND – The number of vehicle registrations in Switzerland fell in 2014, by 1.4 percent, to 396,588 new vehicles on the books. The overall “stock of road motor vehicles further increased, however, and reached a total of almost 5.8 million vehicles”, according to the federal statistics office in Neuchatel.

White cars remained a favourite in 2014, for the seventh year in a row, and diesel fuel vehicles continued to be popular, with growing interest in hybrids and electric cars, although the last two groups remain statistically small.

Switzerland now has 539 vehicles per 1,000 people, a figure that has doubled in the last 30 years. Italy and Liechtenstein have more, Austria nearly the same, and France and Germany have fewer, per population of 1,000.