14 DAY TRIAL // Eco-friendly electric vehicles are becoming increasingly popular in Europe, a report recently produced by the European Environment Agency shows.
Thus, it appears that the overall number of such cars bought by people living in Europe in 2014 exceeded the electric vehicle sales figure reported in 2013 by an astounding 57%.
More precisely, the European Environment Agency's report says that some 38,000 electric vehicles were registered by folks in Europe last year.
It was the French who bought the most electric cars
Of the 38,000 electric vehicles sold and registered in Europe all throughout the year 2014, as many as 10,700 found loving homes in France.
The UK and Germany also witnessed electric cars becoming more popular, with 8,500 and 6,700 such cars being registered in these two countries, respectively.
Even so, diesel vehicles accounted for 53% of the 12.5 million new cars sold in Europe last year, most of them being sent to Ireland, Luxembourg and Portugal.
If you've been keeping an eye on the news these past few days, you might have heard that this year's January-March period was the absolute hottest ever documented since record keeping began well over a century ago.
Researchers say this increase in Earth's average temperature is a clear symptom of climate change and global warming, in turn caused by pollution.
Since cars that run on dirty fuels are a major source of pollutants, it comes as good news that electric vehicles are steadily stepping in to replace them.
Regular cars have gotten somewhat greener too
In addition to the fact that people in Europe bought more electric vehicles in 2014 than they did in 2013, it looks like regular cars driven up and down roads on this continent have gotten greener, Click Green informs.
As detailed in the European Environment Agency's report, regular cars sold in Europe in 2014 correlated with average carbon dioxide emissions about 2.6% lower than the ones reported for vehicles sold in 2013.
This means that Europe has already achieved its drop in car carbon emissions planned for the year 2015 and is well on track to meet its target of having its fleet produce just 95 grams of carbon dioxide per kilometer by 2021.