Abstract:

Key highlights of the 2019/2020 edition of the report are: In 2018, new car registrations in the EU remained roughly constant at 15.1 million. By far the strongest growth in vehicle sales took place in the sport utility vehicle (SUV) segment. Approximately 5 million new cars in 2018 were SUVs, more than 8 times as many as in 2001. The share of diesel cars sold in the EU dropped considerably from 44 % in 2017 to 36% in 2018. This is significantly less than in 2011-2012, when 55% of new cars were still powered by diesel. The official level of average carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from new passenger cars in the EU, increased to 120 grams per kilometer (g/km) in 2018, which is 2 g/km higher than in the previous year. The market share of hybrid electric vehicles (HEV) in the EU was 3 % of all new car sales in 2018. Plug-in hybrid (PHEV) and battery electric vehicles (BEV) each made up about 1% of new vehicle registrations in the EU.