64% of passenger cars have no environmental label or only B, which is the cause of 91.4% of polluting emissions
Cars in Spain are older than in the rest of Europe. The average age of the national fleet has increased again by 3% in 2021 to 13.5 years, two more than the average European age of 11.15 years, according to the latest annual report of Anfac (Spanish Association of Car and Truck Manufacturers ).
At the end of 2021, almost 64% of passenger cars on the road in Spain were older than ten years. According to Anfac, the microchip crisis and economic uncertainty caused by the pandemic have “set the pace of the market recovery”, leading to a further slowdown in the park’s renovation.
The data shows that in 2021, for every new car registered, 1.26 million cars over 10 years old were sold, a figure much higher than the nearly 860,000 new ones, “redirecting the market to older, more polluting vehicles.” In addition, the number of passenger cars sold for more than 20 years exceeded 300,000 units, 32% more than the previous year.
At the end of the year, 31.5% of passenger cars in Spain had a B label (the lowest) and 33.2% had no label due to exceedance or emissions. These vehicles (64% of all vehicles driving in Spain) are responsible for 91.4% of polluting emissions.
José López-Tafall, general manager of Anfac, believes that if the European Union’s goals to reduce emissions are “essential” that in addition to the “ambitious plan to promote electrification”, there are “measures that help rejuvenate and refurbish the fleet.” “If we don’t work on it, the electrification advances we’ve been aiming for in recent years will be minimized by emissions from the aging fleet,” he says.
Source: La Verdad
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