Three flashing alerts caught his eye.
Adrian grabbed a coffee and walked to the meeting room, where his colleague Andreea was already annotating a map of Romania’s charging station network. autodata ro
Adrian Ionescu, a data analyst at AutoData RO , stared at his screen in Bucharest. The dashboard before him wasn’t just numbers—it was the circulatory system of Romania’s car market. It was late October, and his team was preparing the quarterly “State of the Fleet” report. Three flashing alerts caught his eye
That was the missing piece.
The next morning, Adrian received an email from a dealership group in Brașov. The subject line read: “We just dropped prices on 2018 diesels and added a hybrid test-drive event. Thank you for the data.” The dashboard before him wasn’t just numbers—it was
Andreea nodded. “I pulled the fiscal incentive data. From July, the Rabla Plus program’s budget for EVs ran out faster than ever—by mid-August. Meanwhile, the ‘Rabla for Used Cars’ (Rabla Clasic) still has funds, but it favors local trade-ins, not direct imports.”
Meanwhile, new car registrations for full-electric vehicles (EVs) in Bucharest had dipped 5% month-on-month. But in Cluj-Napoca and Timișoara, hybrids—especially the Toyota Yaris Cross and Dacia Jogger Hybrid—were flying off dealership lots.