Slowly but surely? Nearly half of EU's new cars in 2023 were hybrid and electric

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Despite pure petrol cars maintaining the largest individual share, 48.3% of the total 10.7 million new cars registered in the EU for 2023 were hybrid and electric.

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00:00Hybrid and electric cars are now selling almost as much as fuel vehicles in the EU.

00:12In 2023, almost 11 million new passenger cars were registered in the EU.

00:2048.3% of them were hybrid and battery electric, against 48.8% of traditional petrol and diesel cars.

00:32Pure petrol vehicles kept the largest individual share at 34.5%,

00:39followed closely by non-plug-in hybrid petrol-electric cars at 21.1%.

00:47Battery-only electric cars accounted for 14.5%,

00:52surpassing pure diesel cars, which stood at 14.3%.

00:59In nine EU countries, the share of hybrid and electric cars in new registrations exceeded 50%.

01:07Finland reported the highest share of new hybrid and electric vehicles,

01:1278% of new registrations with 44 hybrid and 34 electric.

01:20In contrast, Bulgaria recorded the lowest share with 7%,

01:26followed by the Czech Republic with 20%.

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