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EEA: average CO2 emissions from new cars and new vans in Europe increased in 2018

Green Car Congress

Sales of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV) and battery-electric vehicles (BEV) continued to increase. However, the combined share of PHEVs and BEVs in all car sales remains low (2% compared to 1.5% The combined shares of PHEV and BEV sales were highest in Iceland (15%), Sweden (8.4%) and the Netherlands (6.8%).

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EEA: average CO2 emissions from new cars and new vans in Europe increased again in 2019

Green Car Congress

Several factors affected this emission increase, including an increase in the average mass and only a limited increase of the share of electric vans (BEV sand PHEV) from 0.8% Sales of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV) and battery-electric vehicles (BEV) continued to increase to about 3.5%, compared with 2% in 2018. g CO 2 /km).

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Hybrids shine as EU new-car market sees summer growth

Baua Electric

Compared to other EU member states, only the smaller markets of Greece and Bulgaria could beat this rate of growth. PHEVs poor performance In contrast to hybrids, plug-in hybrids (PHEVs) were the worst-performing powertrain in July. PHEVs accounted for 6.8% PHEVs accounted for 6.8% The technology dropped by 14.1%

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