{"id":445648,"date":"2026-02-20T14:37:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T13:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2026\/02\/20\/auto-calato-il-diesel-e-aumentati-benzina-elettrico-e-carburanti-alternativi-i-dati-di-eurostat-per-il-2014-2024\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T18:04:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T17:04:36","slug":"cars-diesel-sales-down-petrol-electric-and-alternative-fuels-up-eurostat-data-for-2014-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2026\/02\/20\/cars-diesel-sales-down-petrol-electric-and-alternative-fuels-up-eurostat-data-for-2014-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Cars: diesel sales down; petrol, electric, and alternative fuels up \u2014 Eurostat data 2014\u20132024"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels –\u00a0Over the course of ten years – from 2014 to 2024 – the number of\u00a0diesel cars<\/strong>\u00a0(including hybrids) registered in twenty European Union countries (for which data are available)\u00a0decreased by 67 per cent<\/strong>, compared to a 60 per cent<\/strong>\u00a0increase in\u00a0petrol-powered vehicles\u00a0<\/strong>(including hybrids). In terms of alternative fuels, however, the number of\u00a0battery electric cars\u00a0<\/strong>registered in Europe in 2024 was 45 times higher than in 2014, rising\u00a0from 0.3 per cent of the total to 13.9 per cent<\/strong>. Finally, registrations of\u00a0alternative fuel<\/strong>\u00a0vehicles (LPG, natural gas, hydrogen fuel cells, bioethanol, biodiesel, bi-fuel vehicles, and others) also grew by 13 per cent from 2014 to 2024.<\/p>\n

The overview, which covers twenty Member States representing 93 percent of all cars registered in the EU in 2024, comes from a\u00a0report<\/b><\/a><\/span>\u00a0released today by\u00a0Eurostat<\/strong>, the EU’s statistical office. The document is part of the 2025 edition of the\u00a0study<\/a><\/span>\u00a0‘Key Figures on European Transport,’ which is dedicated to analyzing data on European passenger and freight transport and their impacts on the economy, energy, and the environment.<\/p>\n

Although the trend toward a gradual increase in more sustainable passenger cars is common across the entire Union,\u00a0significant differences emerge\u00a0<\/b>between the more virtuous countries and the less virtuous ones.<\/b>\u00a0At the top of the ranking for the percentage of electric cars registered in 2024 are\u00a0Denmark<\/b>\u00a0(51.3 per cent), Malta (37.7 per cent),\u00a0Sweden<\/b>\u00a0(34.9 per cent), and\u00a0the Netherlands<\/b>\u00a0(34.6 per cent). At the bottom of the table are\u00a0Croatia, Slovakia, Poland, Bulgaria,<\/b>\u00a0and\u00a0Italy<\/b>. In all these countries, the percentage of electric cars is less than 5 per cent, and petrol cars still remain the clear majority, with percentages ranging from 60 to over 70 per cent.\u00a0These figures seem to suggest a \u201ctwo-speed\u201d transition to electric vehicles.<\/p>\n

From the published charts, it is clear that\u00a02020<\/b>\u00a0was the turning point, with the decline in new diesel vehicles and the rise in electric cars becoming notably more pronounced at the same time. 2020 was the first year of application of\u00a0Regulation 2019\/631<\/strong><\/a><\/span>, which required European car manufacturers to comply with\u00a0stricter CO2 emission limits<\/strong>\u00a0in the manufacture of new vehicles.<\/p>\n

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According to the EU statistics institute, new diesel car registrations fell by 67 per cent between 2014 and 2024, while petrol car registrations rose by 60 per cent. Alternative fuels are also growing: battery-electric cars are on the rise, accounting for 13.9 per cent of the total, up from 0.3 per cent, and vehicles using alternative fuels increased by 13 per cent. However, there remain wide differences between countries<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7899,"featured_media":388665,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25706],"tags":[33118,33119,25810,33120,28915,31425,33121,33122],"class_list":["post-445648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-green-economy-en","tag-batteria","tag-benzina","tag-auto-en","tag-diesel","tag-electric-en","tag-eurostat-en-2","tag-gasolio","tag-gpl"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7899"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445648"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":445694,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445648\/revisions\/445694"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}