What is the average age of cars in Europe?
If you are interested in the average age of the European car fleet by country, this study is sure to interest you. It was developed by the Association of European Automobile Manufacturers ACEA and quite logically shows that old cars usually drive on the roads of Eastern Europe.
In fact, in 2018, Lithuania, with an average age of 16,9 years, is the EU country with the oldest car fleet. This is followed by Estonia (16,7 years) and Romania (16,3 years). Luxembourg is a country with the latest cars. The average age of its fleet is estimated at 6,4 years. The top three is completed by Austria (8,2 years) and Ireland (8,4 years). The EU average for cars is 10,8 years.
Bulgaria does not appear in the ACEA survey because there are no official statistics. According to the traffic police for 2018, more than 3,66 million vehicles of three types are registered in our country - cars, vans and trucks. Most of them are over 20 years old - 40% or more than 1,4 million. There are much fewer new ones up to 5 years old, they make up only 6.03% of the entire fleet.
ACEA also publishes other interesting data, such as the number of car factories by country. Germany is headed by 42 factories, followed by France with 31. The top five also include the UK, Italy and Spain with 30, 23 and 17 plants, respectively.
The Association of European Automobile Manufacturers study also shows that a new car sold in Europe in 2019 emits an average of 123 grams of carbon dioxide per kilometer. Norway ranks first in this indicator with a weight of only 59,9 grams for the simple reason that the share of electric vehicles there is the largest. Bulgaria is the country with the dirtiest new cars with 137,6 grams of CO2 per kilometer.
Our country is also among the 7 in the EU, whose governments do not subsidize consumers for the purchase of electric vehicles. The rest are Belgium, Cyprus, Denmark, Latvia, Lithuania and Malta.
