As many as 1,901,239 million hybrid vehicles will be registered in the European Union in 2021.
Separate combined cars powered by an internal combustion engine and a battery, diesel cars, which were sold for the first time in Europe in 2021, even with only 48 cars, showed data on Wednesday.
One in 11 vehicles sold was battery-powered, according to the European Automobile Manufacturers Association, less than 880,000 vehicles.
Hybrid chargers have a battery that is charged by an internal combustion engine and can usually travel a short distance with electricity.
Add-on hybrids are mostly powered by an external rechargeable battery and are therefore considered environmentally friendly, but are supported by an internal heat engine, while battery-powered vehicles are battery-powered only.
There were 1,901,239 million integrated vehicles registered in the European Union, up 1.1 million from 2020 a year earlier.
Diesel fuel registrations fell by a third from 2.7 million last year to 1,901,191 following the Dieselgate scandal in 2015.
New government subsidies for cheap cars, or zero-emission cars, began as part of a catastrophic recovery that restored plug-in hybrid and battery-powered car sales to more than a million by 2020, with the two divisions split.
Car manufacturers see additional hybrids as an opportunity to switch to full-fledged electric vehicles, but whether groups have criticized their green certifications as research has shown drivers are more confident than expected about the battery’s internal heat engine up manufacture of motor vehicles.
In 2021, sales of battery-powered vehicles increased by 63.1 percent to 8,800 vehicles, data showed, while sales of the auxiliary hybrid increased by 70.7 percent to about 867,100.
Gasoline remained fuel-efficient but declined over the past year, accounting for 40 percent of new registrations, up from 48 percent in 2020.