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Sales of chargeable vehicles more than triple in EU in Q3 to take 9.9% new market share

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of total passenger car sales in the European Union, with registrations falling by 13.7% Gasoline car sales posted an even stronger drop (-24.3%), going from more than 1.7 Gasoline car sales posted an even stronger drop (-24.3%), going from more than 1.7 in July-September 2019 to 75.4% Diesel cars accounted for 27.8%

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ACEA report finds growth of charging points not keeping pace with rising demand for electric vehicles in Europe

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This new report shows that sales of electrically-chargeable cars in the EU increased by 110% over the past three years. During the same period however, the number of charging points grew by just 58% (to less than 200,000)—demonstrating that investment in infrastructure is not keeping pace with increased sales of electric vehicles.

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EU passenger car registrations drop 16.6% in October

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New car registrations in the EU27 (data for Cyprus and Malta unavailable) decreased to 1,027,036 units in October, marking a 16.6% In the US, October sales of light-duty vehicles were up 13.4% For January to October, US sales are up 10.6% to 502,038 units, compared to passenger car sales of 448,127 units, up 3.9%

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

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Sales of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV) and battery-electric vehicles (BEV) continued to increase. With around 150,000 registrations, sales of BEVs increased by 50% compared to 2017. However, the combined share of PHEVs and BEVs in all car sales remains low (2% compared to 1.5% of sales in 2018. In 2018, 1.66

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ACEA: plug-in vehicles take 6.8% market share in Europe in Q1 2020; HEVs at 9.4%

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Gasoline vehicle sales contracted by 32.2%, from almost 2 million units last year to 1.3 With the exception of Cyprus and Lithuania, all EU markets have faced double-digit drops so far this year. ECV sales more than doubled (+100.7%) in the first three months of the year, totalling 167,132 cars registered across the EU.

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ACEA: EU commercial vehicle registrations: down 23.2% in Q1 2020; -47.3% in March

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During the first quarter of the year, heavy truck sales fell in all major EU markets, with France (-27.7%) and Germany (-25.9%) posting the strongest drops. Germany (+11.8%), Austria (+12.3%), Estonia (+800.0%) and Cyprus (+33.3%) were the only markets in the region to post growth last month. less than last year. to 1,905 units.

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Growing Number of EU Countries Levying CO2 Taxes on Cars and Incentivizing Plug-ins

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The seventeen EU countries that levy passenger car taxes partially or totally based on the car’s carbon dioxide emissions and/or fuel consumption are: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Latvia, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom.

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