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

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2 -emissions-from-new-cars-vans-2019">According to provisional data published by the European Environment Agency (EEA), average CO 2 emissions from new passenger cars registered in the European Union (EU), Iceland, Norway and the United Kingdom (UK), increased in 2019, for the third consecutive year. g CO 2 /km in 2019, reaching 122.4

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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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in Q1 2019) against the backdrop of the overall decline in passenger car registrations due to the COVID-19 outbreak. for the first quarter of 2019). With the exception of Cyprus and Lithuania, all EU markets have faced double-digit drops so far this year. compared to 2019). to 738,392. million in Q1 2020.

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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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The country with the most infrastructure, the Netherlands, has more than 1,000 times more charging points than the country with the least infrastructure (Cyprus, with 38 charging points). of all cars sold in Europe in 2019 were electrically-chargeable (+2.4 of all cars sold in 2019 were natural gas-powered (-0.3

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

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Demand fell by half (-49.8%) compared to the year before, with registrations dropping from 165,455 vans in March 2019 to 83,141 units this year. Each of the four main EU markets performed worse than in 2019. compared to the first quarter of 2019. In Italy registrations tumbled by 71.2% and Spain saw a 67.2% to 1,905 units.

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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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in July-September 2019 to 75.4% With the exception of Cyprus, all EU markets saw declines in demand for gasoline cars during the three-month period, including the four major markets. Diesel cars accounted for 27.8% of total passenger car sales in the European Union, with registrations falling by 13.7% to 766,146 units.

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Study: air pollution causes 800,000 extra deaths a year in Europe and 8.8 million worldwide

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—Co-author Professor Jos Lelieveld, of the Max-Plank Institute for Chemistry in Mainz and the Cyprus Institute Nicosia. 2019) “Cardiovascular disease burden from ambient air pollution in Europe reassessed using novel hazard ratio functions” European Heart Journal doi: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehz135. Jos Lelieveld, Thomas Münzel et al.

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Travelling after Brexit

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Will my driving licence be valid to drive in the EU after March 2019? Which one you will need will depend on which country you will be driving in: A 1949 Convention IDP covers these EU countries: Spain, Malta and Cyprus; or. This would need to be shown in conjunction with your UK driving licence.

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