Western Europe since the 11th century, divided Christianity in Europe, and consequently the world, into Western Christianity and Eastern Christianity. With certain simplifications, Western Europe is thus Catholic or Protestant and uses the Latin alphabet. Eastern Europe is Orthodox and uses the Greek alphabet or Cyrillic script. According to this definition, Western Europe is formed by countries with dominant Roman Catholic and Protestant churches, including countries which are considered part of Central Europe now: Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland
Plug-in electric vehicles in Europe electric vehicles registered was achieved in April 2016. , the stock of light-duty plug-in electric vehicles registered in Norway totaled more than 200,000 units, including used imports, making Norway the European country with the largest stock of plug-in cars and vans, and the fourth largest in the world. Norway was the top selling plug-in country market in Europe in 2016, surpassing the Netherlands, Europe’s top market in 2015. Registrations achieved a market share of 29.1% of all new passenger cars registered in 2016. Again in 2017, Norway was Europe's top selling plug-in country. The segment market share rose to 39.2%