Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2020

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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Plug-in 2020 Market Europe 243

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Poland, Slovakia, Luxembourg and Lithuania all posted record levels of volume, while it was the best year since 2007 for Spain and Estonia, and the best year since 2008 for Romania, Hungary, Croatia and Latvia. Globally, Europe was the world’s third-largest car market behind China and the US.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Five EU member states don’t offer any incentives at all: Croatia, Estonia, Lithuania, Malta and Poland. Many of the new EU member states with a low ECV market share merely offer an exemption from the annual circulation tax for electric vehicles.

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Greece Market Estonia Malta 150

Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2020

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. The average mass of new cars increased by 30 kg from 2018 to 2019. About half of the BEVs were registered in Norway, Germany and the Netherlands.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2018

But it was the positive economic situation across the continent that boosted results, JATO said, as midsize markets such as the Netherlands, Poland and Sweden all posted increases, and smaller markets like Hungary, Greece, Romania, Croatia and Lithuania similarly posted significant increases.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Signatories by category: Governments: Austria; Azerbaijan; Cambodia; Canada; Cape Verde; Chile; Croatia; Cyprus; Denmark; El Salvador; Finland; Iceland; Ireland; Israel; Lithuania; Luxembourg; Netherlands; New Zealand; Norway; Poland; Slovenia; Sweden; United Kingdom. The declaration is not legally binding and is focused on a global level.

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EV Adoption

MARCH 15, 2021

Another crazy week in the world of EVs, with lots of announcements on the automaker and battery front. The reveals of the Canoo pickup and Kia EV6 have heads turning and yet another automaker, BMW-owned Mini this time announced plans that it would only produce battery-electric vehicles from 2030. Batteries and Charging.

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