Registered road motor vehicles and trailers, 2024

Key statistics on passenger cars for 2024:

• almost 1.3 million registered,
• on average 11.3 years old,
• 53,000 new first-time registered,
• the renewal rate 4.2%,
• 26% of new ones on hybrid drive.

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At the end of 2024, almost 1.8 million road vehicles were registered in Slovenia. There were over 1.7 million motor vehicles and 59,000 trailing vehicles. Almost 1.3 million registered passenger cars  represented 73% of all motor vehicles. The number of all these listed types of vehicles increased by 2% over the previous year.

The average age of passenger cars in Goriška exceeded 13 years

Passenger cars registered in Slovenia were last year on average 11.3 years old. On average, they were the least old in the Osrednjeslovenska statistical region (10.5 years) and still the oldest in Goriška (13.1 years).

Last year, used passenger cars registered for the first time in Slovenia, i.e. those that had already been registered abroad, were on average 6 years old.

In every month among first-time registered passenger cars more new than used ones

According to the balance at the end of 2024, over 134,000 road vehicles were registered in Slovenia last year for the first time. Compared to the previous year, the number was 6% higher. Over 92,000 passenger cars were registered for the first time, also 6% more.

Almost 82,000 or 61% of all road vehicles registered for the first time in 2024 were new, i.e. they had not been registered abroad before. The number of first-time registered new road vehicles was 6% higher than a year earlier, while the number of new passenger car registrations was 8% higher. In the same comparison, the number of used cars registered for the first time increased as well, but less (by 3%).
The renewal rate of passenger cars at the annual level increased by 0.3 of a percentage point to 4.2%.

The largest number of first-time registered passenger cars, both new and used, was recorded in March, the lowest in December. In every month, the number of first-time registered new passenger cars exceeded the number of first-time registered used passenger cars. The highest increase in all first-time registrations of passenger cars was in July, when the total number of first-time registrations went up by a fifth.

Significantly fewer first-time registered new electric passenger cars

Almost a half (48%) of registered passenger cars were using diesel and 45% petrol fuel. Compared to 2023, the number of diesel cars went down by 1%, while the number of petrol ones went up by 1%. In addition, 4% of passenger cars were hybrids and 1% were electric cars. The number of hybrids increased by 44% and of electrics by a third.

As regards first-time new passenger car registrations, the ratios by type of drive and fuel are different from all registered passenger cars. Out of all first-time registered new passenger cars in Slovenia in 2024, 26% were hybrid cars and 6% were electric cars. In one year, the number of first-time registered new hybrid passenger cars went up by 23%, while new registrations of electric cars went down by 27%. 

New in the SiStat Database

In the SiStat Database, we are publishing a new table with data on all kinds of first registrations by cohesion and statistical regions. The table shows, for example, that from 2015 to the last year the share of first-time registered new motorcycles used by natural persons increased the most in the Obalno-kraška statistical region.

Tables with the latest data are available in the SiStat Database.