In the fourth quarter of 2020, new registrations of road vehicles for passenger transport increased for mopeds and motorcycles by 60.6%, and decreased for buses and minibuses by 25.9% and for passenger cars by 3.5%.
In the fourth quarter of 2020, new registrations of road vehicles for passenger transport grew 13.4% compared to the third quarter of 2020, and new registrations of road vehicles for freight transport increased by 4.8%.
New registrations of road vehicles for freight transport saw growth for all categories: trailers and semitrailers (+15.5%), lorries (special purpose road vehicles included) (+9.9%) and road tractors (+4.7%).
“At the end of the fourth quarter of 2020, 55.0% of the road vehicles registered classified according to the European emissions standards were Euro 4, Euro 5 or Euro 6 vehicles and 12.7% were Non-Euro vehicles”, the statistics board also said.
Within the passenger cars category, the highest share was that of Euro 4 vehicles, namely 35.3%; within the buses and minibuses category, the greatest number of vehicles (namely 25.8%) were Euro 3 vehicles; as regards the mopeds and motorcycles, the greatest number of vehicles within this category (namely 31.6%) were classified as Non-Euro.
The Euro 3 vehicles prevailed within the category of lorries (30.9%), the Euro 5 vehicles prevailed within the road tractors category (33.0%), and the greatest number of vehicles within the category of special purpose road vehicles (namely 27.4%) were classified as Non-Euro.