Trends in specific consumption of cars by country
- Decrease of the average specific consumption of the car stock (l/100km) in all countries, by 0.6%/year on average at EU level since 2000.
- Different trends across countries : from -1.6%/year in Greece, due to the economic recession and large price increases, to -0.2%/year in Poland.
- Large difference between countries regarding the level in this specific consumption, depending of the share of large cars and SUV, motor fuel prices and the share of efficient cars : from 5.8 l/100km in Greece to 8 l/100km in Latvia in 2021..