The final monitoring data published by the European Environment Agency showed the average CO2 emissions of new cars registered in Europe fell further in 2022 to a new low of 27 per cent below 2019 levels.
This decrease comes thanks to the stricter emission targets in application since 2020. Vans emissions have also seen a decrease of some 10 per cent over the same period. Only one manufacturer was found to have exceeded its target in 2022 and will be required to pay an excess emissions premium.
In 2022, 9.4 million new passenger cars were registered in the EU, Iceland and Norway. Their average carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions during laboratory testing were 108.1 g CO2/km, which is 5.3 per cent below the 2021 average and 27 per cent below 2019 levels. The main reason for this decrease is the growing share of new electric cars registered, reaching 23 per cent of the new car market in 2022 (19 per cent in 2021), with 13.5 per cent being fully electric.
One million new vans were registered in the EU, Iceland and Norway in 2022. Their average CO2 emissions were 183.8 g CO2/km, which is 4.9 per cent below 2021 levels and a 10 per cent decrease since 2019. The share of electric vans continued to increase from 3.5 per cent in 2021 to 6.2 per cent in 2022, nearly all of them fully electric.