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Toyota Europe Q1 hybrid sales up 82.3% for 20% of total sales; Auris Hybrid the leader

Green Car Congress

Cumulative sales of Toyota and Lexus full hybrid models in Europe since 2000 reached 544,184 units at the end of March 2013, contributing to some 10% of Toyota’s global full hybrid sales. As we approach our global 5-million full hybrid sales milestone, the strong sales performance of our hybrid products in Europe is particularly encouraging.

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War in Ukraine: We Need to Talk About Fossil Fuels

Cars That Think

He took the first step in Crimea in 2014 , and in the early morning hours of 24 February he ordered a large-scale invasion of Ukraine. In 1959 the Dutch discovered a giant natural gas field in Groningen ; in 1965 came the discovery of natural gas in the North Sea , soon followed by the first productive oil well. Consumption of E.U.-produced

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Study reports non-US global shale gas recoverable resources of 5,760 Tcf; global shale gas boosts total recoverable natural gas resources by 40%

Green Car Congress

Initial assessments of 48 shale gas basins containing almost 70 shale gas formations in 32 countries suggest that shale gas resources, which have recently provided a major boost to US natural gas production, are also available in other world regions. These include France, Poland, Turkey, Ukraine, South Africa, Morocco, and Chile.

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Cupra Born to be priced about $60K; Tavascan, UrbanRebel confirmed for Australia

EV Central

The company suggests it will sell maybe 1000 or 2000 EVs annually in 2023 and 2024 as part of that plan. “We Cupra Australia’s head of product and planning, Jeff Schafer, said: “I think that price will be pretty similar to what you pay for a similarly-powered Cupra Leon”. We don’t want to be that.