Data for the “Car Trashing Bonus”
Here is the data for the so called “Umweltprämie”
21995 9.2.2009
34210 10.2.2009
39856 11.2.2009
41619 12.2.2009
44161 13.2.2009
60730 16.2.2009
62806 17.2.2009
76926 18.2.2009
85304 19.2.2009
94691 20.2.2009
104840 23.2.2009
120016 25.2.2009
139964 27.2.2009
150722 2.3.2009
157696 3.3.2009
166238 4.3.2009
180492 5.3.2009
188421 6.3.2009
201469 9.3.2009
217693 10.3.2009
225870 11.3.2009
231533 12.3.2009
241280 13.3.2009
246853 16.3.2009
Using the trivial linear least square fit will now yield the 7th of May.
There is still no real hint to anything different than a more or less linear increase, but the last point may be the first indicator for a saturation – how may cars are out there, willing to be trashed …?
interesting stuff. By now It started to saturate.
After they introduced the online requests, the initial method did stall and it didn’t make much sense to track it further.