January 18 (SeeNews) - New passenger car registrations in Slovenia rose by a marginal 0.6% in 2021, to 53,988, following a 27% drop in 2020, provisional data from the European Automobile Manufacturers' Association, ACEA, showed on Tuesday.
In December alone, new passenger car registrations in Slovenia increased by 8.3% on the year, to 2,543, ACEA said in a statement.
Slovenia, Croatia, Bulgaria and Latvia were the only EU car markets that expanded last month.
New passenger car registrations in the EU, excluding Malta, fell by 2.4% to 9.7 million in 2021 despite the record low base of comparison of 2020.
“This fall was the result of the semiconductor shortage that negatively impacted car production throughout the year, but especially during the second half of 2021,” ACEA said in the statement. Last year total EU car registrations were still 3.3 million units below pre-crisis sales in 2019, it added.