These days, electrified vehicles (EVs) positively dominate motoring news pages, with the seemingly ever-increasing price of petrol not far behind. So, given these factors, are SA car shoppers lending more consideration to fully electric and hybrid vehicles than in years gone by?
search data for the first quarter of 2021 with the same period this year. The results are crystal clear: searches for used electric vehicles and hybrid vehicles have virtually doubled year on year.
When digging deeper into searches for specific battery-powered models as opposed to the aforementioned broader EV query, we see the arrival of newcomers such as the Audi e-tron drove much of that considerable growth. That said, the dataset furthermore indicates strong year-on-year search increases for established EVs such as the Porsche Taycan and BMW i3 .Searches for Jaguar’s I-Pace and Mini’s Cooper SE, meanwhile, declined slightly in the second reporting period.
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