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In another news the sales of +10 years old diesel cars are not dropping in Romania and Bulgaria and Hungary and the Balkan countries

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New diesel vehicles are 6.4% of sales in Romania, 15.4% in Bulgaria, 9.5% in Hungary, 12.2% in Croatia.

That's a drop except in Bulgaria, where it's the same as last year.

And if those 10+ year old diesels are replacing 15, 20+ year old diesels it's still an improvement.

https://www.acea.auto/pc-registrations/new-car-registrations...

How are diesel cars with a battery counted?

Cars under VAG sell TDI engines with a small battery and call it a hybrid.

pretty much no brands with any relevant sales in Europe besides Mercedes and Mazda produce diesel hybrids

Audi sells 48V diesel mild hybrids, at least where I’m from they make the majority of their sales.

that's what I get for relying on Google, apparently also Audi and BMW sell diesel hybrids in Europe, other brands seem to be max 1 model of private cars

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Diesel_hybrid_vehicle...

The supply of 10+ year old EVs is rather limited, so that is not a very surprising fact.

Chinese EVs are making rapid inroads in the balkans, lots of new brands

True, I see lots of Teslas and BYDs here in Greece (and own a BYD). Wouldn't go back to ICE.

I live in a town in Hungary and would never consider an EV. It is slow and costs about the same to charge as petrol, there is no infrastructure, way more expensive, value degrades more compared a simple (and clean, euro 6) diesel or petrol engine here. If I had a house with solar panels on the roof (thank you govt subsidiaries), maaaybe. I can buy a few years old compact car for 6-10k euros and use it for years with none of the infrastructure cost or battery degradation.

> value degrades more compared a simple (and clean, euro 6) diesel or petrol engine here

why not buy a used EV then?

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