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 have been registered since 2011, consisting of 36,405 plug-in hybrids, 12,223 all-electric cars and 1,676 all-electric utility vans. The Swedish plug-in electric market is dominated by plug-in hybrids, representing 72.4% of the Swedish light-duty plug-in electric vehicle registrations through December 2017. Sweden has ranked among the world's top ten best-selling plug-in markets for two years running, 2015 and 2016, listed in both years as the ninth largest country market. , the Swedish stock of plug-in cars and vans is the sixth largest in Europe. The plug-in passenger car segment achieved a record market share of 5.2% of new