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CARS
not be possible in many cases, particularly for
people living in remote areas, the elderly and those with disabilities.
People living in urban areas may rely on taxis, carsharing or on-demand services instead of, or as a complement to, their own private car.
Passenger car travel enables home care and medical assistance, as well as a range of other emergency services.
Job-related mobility is of particular importance, with about a half of all vehicle kilometres travelled in the EU being related to employment.
The budgets of the EU member states receive 350 billion euros per year from the production and use of passenger cars – this represents about 8% of the total tax revenue in the EU28. WHYARE CARS IMPORTANT?
For over a hundred years, the private car has
transformed modern society by providing independence and freedom of mobility.
Mobility is becoming more and more important due to ever-increasing distances between home, work, educational institutions, shopping and leisure facilities.
Cars are our number one source of mobility, taking the average European almost 13,000 kilometres a year.
Over 70% of journeys are made by car – be it private car, taxi or carsharing.
Without individual mobility, adequate participation in social and economic life would
The European classification system defines
passenger cars as “vehicles designed and
constructed for the carriage of passengers and comprising no more than eight seats in addition to the driver’s seat, and having a maximum mass not exceeding 3.5 tonnes”. They are classified as the ‘M1’ category.
There are many different kinds of cars: including sports, luxury, family-oriented,
small cars and sports utility vehicles (SUVs).
WHAT
ARE CARS?
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IN FIGURES
Alternative fuel cars
(electric, natural gas, LPG) represent 5.6% of the total EU fleet, and 4.2% of new car sales. 24% of all cars produced around the world are built in Europe.
5,498,518
Some 5.5 million European cars were
exported worldwide last year, worth over 125 billion euros. There are 256 million cars on Europe’s roads today.
There are 140 car assembly plants in Europe.
The average age of cars in the EU is more than 10 years. 256 million 140
29
new cars were
registered per 1,000 inhabitants in the EU in 2016.
In 2016, average new car
emissions were 118.1g CO2/km, a 36.5% decrease in just two decades.
14.6 million
In 2016, 14.6 million cars were
registered in the EU, an increase
of 6.8% compared to the previous year. Almost half of
new cars sold are powered by diesel. 16.5 million
passenger cars
were made in
the EU in 2016. 36.5%
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