ROME – The EU import-export of electric and hybrid cars is gradually increasing despite the general decline in trade following the restrictive measures adopted in response to the pandemic. This was announced by Eurostat, underlining that last year exports increased fivefold compared to 2017, while imports nearly tripled.
In detail, the EU exported 725,000 electric and hybrid cars in 2020, mainly to the United Kingdom (39%), the United States (16%), Norway (10%) and China (9%). Of these, nearly half were non-plug-in hybrids (49%), about a quarter were electric (27%) or plug-in hybrids (24%).
Electric and hybrid vehicles imported into the EU last year were 892 thousand. Of these, almost half come from Japan and the United States (23% each), followed by South Korea (15%), United Kingdom (14%). , Turkey (10%) and China (9%). 50% of the imported cars were non-plug-in hybrids, one-third electric (34%) and the remaining 16% plug-in hybrids.
Overall, the EU exported almost 5.2 million cars last year, mainly petrol (64%), followed by diesel (22%), electric and hybrid (14%) cars. The 27 imported 3 million cars, half of which were petrol, 30% electric and hybrid electric and 18% diesel.
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