Nearly a quarter of the cars sold in Europe last month were full electric vehicles or plug-in hybrids
of chips for carmakers led to a slump in car sales in Europe in August. Around a third fewer vehicles hit the road than in August 2019, before the pandemic struck, according to JATO, a data firm. That may be bad news for the environment: fewer car sales means drivers are hanging on to older, more polluting cars for longer. But JATO
some good climate news, too. Nearly a quarter of the cars sold in Europe last month were full electric vehicles or plug-in hybrids. Registrations of such cars across 26 European markets outstripped diesel vehicles for the first time.A daily newsletter with the best of our journalismThe switch to EVs had started to accelerate in Europe before the virus struck.
As battery power advances in Europe, diesel is declining. Once seen as the answer to cleaner motoring because more efficient engines make for fewer carbon-dioxide emissions than equivalent petrol-engine vehicles, diesel has been widely demonised since “Dieselgate” in 2015, when Volkswagen admitted cheating on emissions tests and paid billions in fines.
But EVs still have a long way to travel. Although the European Union hopes to match the pronouncements of some national governments and ban sales of internal-combustion engine vehicles by 2035, the plan is sure to stir up opposition in Germany and France, where carmakers argue that they will continue to rely on the profits from cars powered by fossil fuels to fund the transition to battery power.
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