Slovaks buy too many big vehicles and too few clean cars, concludes an analysis by the Institute for Environmental Policy (IEP). Last year, Slovakia recorded the second highest rate of emissions from new cars in the EU. The difference as compared with the EU average is caused mainly by the purchase of heavy fossil fuel-powered vehicles of above-average size, and a low rate of electric vehicles and other alternative-fuel cars. Gasoline cars were 4% heavier than the EU average and diesel cars 8%. The share of newly registered alternative-fuel cars in Slovakia is just 1.15%, placing the country next to last in Europe.
Source: SITA
Romana Grajcarová, Photo: TASR
