Self-charging hybrid cars, which operate on both an internal combustion engine and a battery, outsold diesel cars in Europe for the first time in 2021, by only 48 vehicles, data showed on Wednesday.
was one of 11 cars sold battery powerFigures from the European Automobile Manufacturers Association showed that there were a total of 880,000 vehicles.
Self-charging hybrid cars have a battery charged by an internal combustion engine, and can generally only run for a limited distance on electric power.
Plug-in hybrids are powered primarily by an externally charged battery and are thus seen as more environmentally friendly, but are supported by internal combustion engines, whereas battery-electric cars run on batteries alone. Moving on.
A total of 1,901,239 million self-charging hybrid cars were registered in The European Union Throughout the year, a significant jump from the 1.1 million registered in 2020.
Diesel registrations, which have collapsed since the Dieselgate scandal in 2015, fell by a third to 1,901,191 from 2.77 million last year.
New government subsidies for low- or zero-emissions vehicles, which took effect as part of pandemic recovery programs, pushed sales of plug-in hybrid and battery-electric vehicles to more than one million in 2020, two split almost equally between types.
Plug-in hybrids are seen by carmakers as a technology to transition to fully electric cars, but their green credentials have been criticized by environmental groups as studies have shown that drivers hop on internal combustion engines over batteries. Rely more, push vehicular emissions.
In 2021, battery-electric vehicle sales rose 63.1 percent to reach about 878,500 cars, while plug-in hybrid sales rose 70.7 percent to about 867,100.
Petrol remained the most common fuel type, but by a smaller margin than last year, 40 per cent of new registrations accounted for less than 48 per cent in 2020.
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