Some 36.4 percent of Macau’s newly registered motor vehicles were electric in April, the Macau Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) has announced. According to a DSEC statement earlier this week, the number of newly registered motor vehicles dropped by 5.7 percent year-on-year to 884 last month, with 322 of them being electric.
In the first four months of this year, the number of newly registered motor vehicles decreased by 3.4 percent to 3,887, with 33.9 percent of these being electric. In April, the number of traffic accidents fell by 9.1 percent year-on-year to 1,136, resulting in 388 injuries. In the first four months, 4,762 traffic accidents were recorded, leading to 1,684 injuries.
At the end of April, the total number of licensed motor vehicles was 252,697, an increase of 1.0 percent year-on-year. According to official statistics, Macau’s road length was 496.7 km at the end of March. Last month, cross-border vehicular traffic rose by 23.6 percent year-on-year to 880,495 trips.
Undated file photo of a boy giving the thumbs-up in an electric vehicle in Macau - Photo courtesy of Macau power utility CEM
