Europe keeps buying more electric cars, which now take 29% of new registrations

Battery electric cars took 29% of new car sales in Europe in August, and across the European Union for the first eight months of the year they reached 21.7% of registrations, exactly level with petrol. Hybrids remain the largest single category on 36.6%, and the spread between Norway at 98% and Croatia at 4% is twenty-four fold.

Battery electric cars took 29% of new car sales in Europe in August, according to the International Council on Clean Transportation, InsideEVs reported. Registration data from the industry body ACEA puts the figure at 29.2% across the European Union, Britain and the EFTA countries. A year earlier it was 20.2%.

The year to date is tighter.

Across the European Union alone, battery electric reached 21.7% of registrations over the first eight months, on 1,641,333 cars, ACEA reported. Petrol reached 21.7% as well. The two are level for the year.

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