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A ban on all petrol and diesel-powered vehicles made its way through the European Parliament on Tuesday, February 1. Proposed in July 2021, Italy, Portugal, Bulgaria, Slovakia, and Romania all pushed to delay the sales ban in mid-2022.
Of the five-digit sales markets, notable performances were recorded in Hungary (up 19.4%), Romania (up 17.3%) and Portugal (up 13.3%). Diesel carries the market Diesel powertrains carried the EU LCV market in the full year, accounting for 84.5% Diesel volumes increased by 10.5% with 149,119 diesel registrations.
Meanwhile, the Czech Republic (up 8.5%), Romania (up 7.9%), Austria (up 7.6%) and Denmark (up 2.5%) also increased volumes. The gap to petrol shortened too, going from 11.8pp one year ago to 5.5pp. It was the second worst-performing powertrain in the month and was outperformed by diesel in terms of volume. respectively.
Elsewhere, Poland (up 14.8%), Romania (up 8%), Portugal (up 2.5%), the Czech Republic (up 2.3%) and Denmark (up 1.5%) saw growth. The powertrain sat 3.2pp ahead of diesel, compared to 8.6pp 12 months ago. Damaging diesel performance Diesel was the second worst-performing powertrain in the month, declining 26.4%
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Diesel, used by most HGVs, causes more air pollution per kilometer than other fuels such as petrol. Exhaust emissions from diesel engines were recently labelled as carcinogenic by the International Agency for Research on Cancer. Costs are also high in Luxemburg, Germany, Romania, Italy and Austria, at around €0.08/km
The same is true in Eastern Europe, with Poland, Romania and Hungary also seeing lower shares. Instead, diesel was calculated to have the best TCO at the set age and mileage. The fuel type was followed by the BEV option, then petrol, with the PHEV in last place. The BEV option was by far the cheapest choice followed by the PHEV.
In contrast, petrol cars performed almost as well as they did before the Covid-19 pandemic. This success comes at the expense of diesel cars, with the market share of these vehicles falling from 35% of registrations in February 2019 to just 15% last month. in February last year.
Conversely, deliveries dropped in Greece (down 16.4%), Belgium (down 13%), Portugal (down 7.8%), Romania (down 6.4%), Czechia (down 5%), the Netherlands (down 4.6%). Diesels EU drop Diesel was the worst-performing powertrain in January. Diesel took a 10% market share, down by 3.3pp compared to one year ago. year on year.
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