Car: CO2 emissions in EU falling, first Dieselgate effects?

Emissions from new cars, registered during 2015 in the EU, are lower than those of 2014 and less even than the target, according to preliminary data published by the European Environment Agency. Only Estonia and Latvia are still higher than average levels of emissions targets, while all other EU countries have already achieved it. The Netherlands, with an average of 101.2 g / km of CO2, reached the lowest level emissivity between EU countries. Manufacturers will have to further reduce CO2 emissions, to achieve the second objective set at 95 g / km by 2021.

In the year just past the numbers of new cars was equal to registered 13.7 million, an increase of 9.3% on 2014. More than half of new cars registered in the EU are diesel. The market for electric cars and hybrid plug-in continues to grow, but only represents 1.3% of all cars registered in 2015.