The number of new passenger cars sold in the European Union in 2021 consisted mainly of petrol cars. About 60 percent of all new cars still run on conventional fuels, European industry association ACEA reports.

The share of hybrid cars, which run on both electricity and petrol, did increase to almost a fifth of the total market share of new cars sold. That was almost 12 percent a year earlier. The market share of fully electric cars also rose sharply, to 18 percent from 10,5 percent a year earlier. The increases were partly due to government subsidies to stimulate electric driving.

At the same time, the European car market still suffered from contraction, partly due to shortages of computer chips and problems in the supply chain caused by the corona pandemic. A lot less were sold of both petrol and diesel cars, respectively almost 18 percent and more than 31 percent less on an annual basis.

In the Netherlands, the number of diesel cars sold fell by almost 47 percent last year to almost 7000 cars. A year earlier, there were almost 13.000. The number of petrol cars fell by more than 28 percent less rapidly, from more than 205.000 units sold in 2020 to almost 147.000 in 2021.

The number of fully electric cars in the Netherlands fell by more than 12 percent last year to more than 64.000 compared to more than 73.000 cars in 2020. More than twice as many plug-in hybrid vehicles were sold, from almost 15.000 in 2020 to more than 31.000 in 2021. 2021. In the Netherlands, the subsidy pot for electric cars in XNUMX was already empty halfway through the year.

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