{"id":5620,"date":"2025-02-10T08:50:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T07:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acea.auto\/?post_type=facts&#038;p=5620"},"modified":"2025-03-27T14:11:26","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T13:11:26","slug":"fact-sheet-cars","status":"publish","type":"facts","link":"https:\/\/www.acea.auto\/fact\/fact-sheet-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"Fact sheet: cars"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"intro block-container\"><p>Cars are the number one source of mobility in Europe, transforming society by providing independence and freedom of mobility. Without cars, adequate social participation would be impossible in many cases. <\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"cntnt block-container\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-top-five-insights\">Top five insights<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The average European travels over 12,000 kilometres a year by car<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Drivers make around 82% of inland journeys by car in Europe<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Manufacturers made over 12 million cars in the EU in 2023<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>98 car assembly plants operate in Europe and the UK<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Average CO2 emissions from new cars have decreased by almost 15% since 2013<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Get the bigger picture on cars in our fact sheet below<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"attch block-container\"><div class=\"download-buttons full-list\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.acea.auto\/files\/ACEA_cars_fact_sheet_Feb2025.pdf\" class=\"btn has-file-icon\">ACEA cars fact sheet<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n<div>\n<div class=\"acea-widget someTypeofwidget\"><h2 class=\"widget-title\"><\/h2><div class=\"widget-content\"><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"template":"","priority-tags":[831,764,820,793,738,832,778,762,815,813,742,817,819,829,830,792,795,761],"vehicles":[838,851],"class_list":["post-5620","facts","type-facts","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","priority-tags-production-of-vehicles","priority-tags-alternatively-powered-vehicles","priority-tags-exports-of-vehicles","priority-tags-mobility-as-a-service","priority-tags-green-clean","priority-tags-registrations-of-vehicles","priority-tags-smart-efficient","priority-tags-petrol","priority-tags-consumer-demand","priority-tags-global-competitive","priority-tags-co2-emissions","priority-tags-vehicle-fleet","priority-tags-international-trade","priority-tags-manufacturing-footprint","priority-tags-market-and-economy","priority-tags-mobility-solutions","priority-tags-transport-policy","priority-tags-powertrain-options","vehicles-passenger-cars","vehicles-all-vehicles","sticky"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acea.auto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/facts\/5620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acea.auto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/facts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acea.auto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/facts"}],"version-history":[{"count":84,"href":"https:\/\/www.acea.auto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/facts\/5620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52900,"href":"https:\/\/www.acea.auto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/facts\/5620\/revisions\/52900"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acea.auto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acea.auto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"priority-tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acea.auto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/priority-tags?post=5620"},{"taxonomy":"vehicles","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acea.auto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vehicles?post=5620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}