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In the Netherlands, passenger cars are on average older than in any other Western European country. However, the average age of a Dutch passenger car is just below the average for the entire EU.

From the latest figures from the trade association European Automobile Manufacturers Association (ACEA) shows that the average Dutch passenger car in 2021 was 11.4 years old. This means that passenger cars in the Netherlands are on average older than in other Western European countries. In 2019, an average passenger car in the Netherlands was still 11 years old. Incidentally, it recently appeared that the majority of cars in the Netherlands more than ten years old.

Luxembourg has the youngest cars

In Belgium and Germany passenger cars are on average 9.5 and 10.1 years old. In France, a car is on average 10.5 years old and in the United Kingdom 10 years old. Luxembourg therefore has the youngest cars in Europe, the average age is 7.6 years. In Greece, cars are on average the oldest at 17 years. Also in Estonia (16.8 years) and the Czech Republic (15.6 years) the fleet is on average no longer young.

The average age of a passenger car in the European Union was 12.0 years in 2021, so the Netherlands will remain just above that. According to ACEA, in 2021 the Dutch car fleet will have nearly 4.5 million cars that are ten years old or older. On average, Greece not only has the oldest passenger cars in Europe, but also the oldest commercial vehicles. A light commercial vehicle was no less than 29.8 years old in 2021.

More than half are petrol cars

In the Netherlands in 2021 there were 523 passenger cars for every 1000 inhabitants. That was 520 a year earlier and 517 in 2019. There were an average of 567 cars per 1,000 inhabitants in the entire European Union in 2021. Remarkably enough, Poland has the most cars per 1000 inhabitants: 684 units. Romania the least: 396 pieces.

51.1 percent of all passenger cars driving around in the European Union in 2021 will have a petrol engine. 41.9 percent of the fleet had a diesel engine under the hood that year and only 0.8 percent had an electric powertrain in 2021. So a tiny share was an EV in 2021, but there were even fewer plug-ins. The share of plug-in hybrids in 2021 was only 0.7 percent.



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