Plug-in electric vehicles in Germany plug-in electric cars have been registered in Germany since 2010. The country is the largest passenger car market in Europe, however, , ranked as the eighth largest plug-in market in the world and the fifth largest in Europe. About 80% of the new plug-in cars registered in the country through 30 September 2016 were registered since January 2014, with 13,049 units registered in 2014, 23,464 registered in 2015, and 17,074 during the first nine months of 2016. The official German definition of electric vehicles changed at the beginning of 2013, before that, official statistics only registered all-electric vehicles because plug-in
Western Europe and Luxembourg have the highest average wage in the world, in nominal and PPP respectively. Denmark ranks highest in the world on the Social Progress Index. Western Europe Western Europe is the region comprising the western part of Europe. Below, some different geographic, geopolitical and cultural definitions of the term are outlined. Significant historical events that have shaped the concept of Western Europe include the rise of Rome, the adoption of Greek culture during the Roman Republic, the adoption of Christianity by Roman Emperors, the division of the Latin West and Greek East, the Fall of the Western Roman Empire,