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European car market logs best year for alternative fueled vehicles, lowest diesel share since 2001

Green Car Congress

The effects of WLTP and the lack of availability of many key versions affected registrations in Q4, which is not surprising given that by late November less than two in three versions available in Europe were homologated. Globally, Europe was the world’s third-largest car market behind China and the US. In total, 5.4

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Carmakers are going green but British motorists are not

Green Cars News

EU regulation is striving to cut the CO2 emitted by cars to an average figure of 130 g/km by 2015. Lithuania / 170 / 177 / 21. Director at the ETA, Andrew Davis, said: “Car makers can build green cars, but they need us to buy them. Great Britain / 158 / 165 / 16. Luxembourg / 160 / 166 / 18. Greece / 161 / 165 / 17.

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