Sales of heat pumps in Europe increased significantly in the first quarter of 2026. According to data from the European Heat Pump Association (EHPA), approximately 575,000 residential heat pumps were sold across eleven European countries between January and March 2026, compared with 494,000 units in the same period of the previous year. This represents an increase of 17 percent. As reported, the Iran war, with its sharply rising oil prices, also caused sales of electric vehicles to rise by more