EEA geospatial data catalogue
2024 real-world CO2 emissions from cars and vans
The monitoring of the real-world emissions from cars and vans is based on Article 12 of Regulation (EU) 2019/631. It aims to ensure that the CO₂ emissions of vehicles determined during laboratory testing remain representative of real-world emissions of vehicles in circulation.
Real-world for cars and vans is public available both as raw and aggregated data in csv-format.
Simple
Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2026-07-16
- Date (Publication)
- 2026-09-03
- Edition
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01.00
- Citation identifier
- eea_t_real-world-co2-emission_p_2024_v01_r00
Identifier
- Codespace
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doi.org
- Description
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Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
- Status
- Point of contact
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Organisation Individual Electronic mail address Website Role European Environment Agency
Point of contact European Environment Agency
Custodian
- Topic category
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- Environment
- Transportation
Extent
Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2024-01-01 2024-12-31
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Annually
Resource constraints
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
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License CC-BY 4.0 ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Copyright holder: European Environment Agency (EEA).
Associated resource
- Association Type
- Cross reference
- Metadata Reference
Associated resource
- Association Type
- Cross reference
- Metadata Reference
Associated resource
- Association Type
- Cross reference
- Metadata Reference
- Language
- English
- Additional Information
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About this dataset
These datasets contains the real-world CO2 emissions and fuel/energy consumption data as reported by vehicle manufacturers and countries, in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2019/631 and Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/392. For transparency, it is published in full, as reported. As per regulation, the Commission shall each year publish anonymized and aggregated datasets that shall be split between passenger cars and light commercial vehicles.
Datasets contain all the reported data, including a small proportion of outlier entries. These are not corrected or removed from the raw datasets, but flagged by the column ‘Used in calculation’, taking the value of ‘0’ if not retained for the real-world gap calculation, and ‘1’ otherwise.
How anomalous records are treated
The column "Used in calculation" identifies which records are included in the calculation of the official real-world CO2 emissions gap. A value of ‘1’ indicates that the record passed the applicable quality checks and was used in that calculation; a value of ‘0’ indicates that the record was not retained, for example because of an implausible or inconsistent value.
The real-world dataset distinguishes between Raw data per reported vehicle and Aggregated data (arithmetic and weighted averages) per manufacturer, published at the Climate and energy in the EU portal. The Raw data contains all reported vehicles, as reported, and the Aggregated data contains the averages per manufacturer including only the vehicles that were retained after filtering through the outlier flag. More details can be found in the supporting documentation and the metadata file.
Using this dataset
Users conducting their own analysis using the raw datasets should refer to the "Used in calculation" column, and apply their own quality checks appropriate to their purpose of analysis. Users seeking the EEA's official real-world gap figures should refer directly to the calculation results published on the Climate and energy in the EU portal, rather than calculating averages from the raw files without reading the supporting documentation first.
Content Information
- Feature catalogue citation
Distribution Information
- Distribution format
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ascii (.csv, .txt, .sql)
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- Units of distribution
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km
- OnLine resource
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https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/webdav/datastore/public/eea_t_real-world-co2-emission_p_2024_v01_r00
- OnLine resource
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Direct download
- OnLine resource
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Collecting real-world data on the CO2 emissions and fuel consumption of new cars and vans
Article
- OnLine resource
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Real world emissions for cars and vans - statistical metadata
- Units of distribution
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litres
- Units of distribution
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kWh
- OnLine resource
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Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
Resource lineage
- Statement
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The procedures for collecting and reporting the real-world data and for comparing it with the corresponding laboratory ‘WLTP data' are set out in Regulation (EU) 2021/392. The data shows the results of this monitoring exercise, based on the data reported by manufacturers in 2025 and covering vehicles first registered between 2021-2024. They show the average laboratory and real-world CO₂ emissions and fuel consumption as well as the calculated gap between those two values per manufacturer and fuel type.
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- 13e6fad9-149c-4b86-9d83-cdf3569ccfee
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Contact
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Organisation Individual Electronic mail address Website Role European Environment Agency
Point of contact
Type of resource
- Resource type
- Non geographic dataset
- Name
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Tabular dataset
- Date info (Creation)
- 2026-07-16T12:10:38.002788Z
- Date info (Revision)
- 2026-09-10T13:20:55.525446Z
Metadata standard
- Title
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ISO 19115/19139
- Edition
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1.0
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