A few hours ago, we released information that the global average sales of new gasoline-engine cars in the first half of this year dropped to 49%, which is an absolute record. Meanwhile, in Russia, even in the automotive sector, they seem to stick to traditional values: in their homeland, the share of gasoline-engine cars has always been 90% or higher, according to August statistics. convey Agency “Autostat-info”, its share is 95.1%.
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It is worth noting that in this regard, the Russians are not particularly worried, if not critical, about fuel logistics: in principle, good old gasoline still does not lose to diesel or electric cars.
In fact, this is not surprising: diesel buses enter Russia mainly from Germany, and our market has been deprived of this luxury for the past four and a half years. As for electric cars, their cost remains prohibitive after all duties and fees, so their sales equal a margin of error in general statistics and continue to do so.
