Up until April 2025, battery-electric vehicles (BEVs) accounted for 15.3% of the total EU market share, signifying an increase from the low baseline of 12% in April 2024 YTD.
In 2023, 10.7 million new passenger cars were registered in the EU.
OMV Petrom announced a revision of their 2030 strategy, focusing on a bigger push for renewable energy, sustainable fuels, and making electric vehicles more accessible.
The European Commission announced that it would apply additional tariffs of up to 38.1% on imported Chinese electric vehicles from next month.
Battery-electric buses reached 36% of new city bus sales in 2023 in the EU, overtaking diesel as the main bus fuel type for the first time.
Average CO2 emissions from all new cars registered in Europe in 2023 continued to decrease and were 1.4% lower than in 2022.
North America has signifincatly outplaced Europe in attracting investments in electric vehicle (EV) production battery production and charging infrastructure.
The US and Europe will face slowing demand and sales for electric vehicles (EVs) in the near term, while China is set to see steady growth.
Engie Romania and Ford Romania Services have established a national strategic partnership to encourage the use of electric vehicles and promote electric mobility.
The European Union will require widespread adoption of electric vehicles across its member states to meet ambitious CO2 emission reduction targets.
EY predicts that by 2030, there will be over 75 million electric vehicles operating across different charging networks in Europe.
The EC's investigation focuses on assessing subsidies received by Chinese battery EVs and aims to safeguard EU producers through potential tariff measures.
€1 billion is available for the installation of alternative fuel supply infrastructure for road, sea, air, and inland waterway transport.
Gebrüder Weiss is doubling its electric road fleet.
The sales of electric scooters increased in the last year by approximately 10% in Romania. At the same time, the average selling price per unit decreased by at least 10%, due to the cheapening of raw materials. Annually, Romanians buy about 50,000 new electric scooters, according to the evoMAG online store.
The E.ON Group is continuously investing in building new ultra-fast charging points across Europe. The company has ordered 4,500 additional fast charging stations from manufacturer alpitronic. They are to be used in customer-facing projects and public charging areas by 2025.
About $2.8 trillion is set to be invested globally in energy in 2023, of which more than $1.7 trillion is expected to go to clean technologies – including renewables, electric vehicles, nuclear power, grids, storage, low-emissions fuels, efficiency improvements, and heat pumps – according to the IEA's latest World Energy Investment report.
Electric cars will represent almost a fifth of the global market in 2023, according to the report of the International Energy Agency (IEA), dedicated to electric vehicles (EV). Sales of electric vehicles are expected to rise by 35% this year, reaching 14 million units, representing 18% of the market - up from just 4% in 2020.
The number of electric cars registered in the Republic of Moldova by individuals doubled last year, to 700 units. The number of electric and hybrid cars exceeded 27,500 at the end of last year, according to data from the Agency for Energy Efficiency (AEE).
51% of Romanian entrepreneurs see sustainability as a way to reduce operational costs, yet the same proportion say implementation is too expensive, according to a new study by BRD Groupe Société Générale. Conducted among micro and small-to-medium enterprises, the research outlines how Romanian entrepreneurs perceive the opportunities and challenges of transitioning to sustainable business models.
The Annual Water Report, based on over 13.5 billion liters of monitored water usage across 5,370 properties in 36 countries, reveals that 67% of properties experience water leakage yearly. With rising water scarcity, increasing tariffs, aging infrastructure, and stricter regulations, property owners are under growing pressure to better understand their water consumption.
Romanian developer Iulius has launched Europe's largest private bioremediation project, investing €29 million to clean 38 hectares of contaminated land in downtown Constanța. The project will transform the former Oil Terminal platform into an integrated urban regeneration complex worth over €800 million.
The European Union is at risk of missing a key United Nations deadline for submitting updated climate targets, as internal disagreements among member states delay a final decision on emissions goals for 2040.
Solar power has rapidly risen to become Hungary's second-largest source of electricity, overtaking gas for the first time in 2024.
