Green Car Congress
JANUARY 8, 2021
Volvo Cars is tripling electric car manufacturing capacity at its plant in Ghent, Belgium as it prepares to meet fast growing demand for its Recharge line-up of chargeable cars. The share of Recharge cars as a percentage of total sales more than doubled in 2020, compared to 2019. Volvo XC40 Recharge production in Ghent, Belgium.
Green Car Congress
MAY 6, 2020
Recharge is the overarching brandname for all chargeable Volvo models with a fully electric or plug-in hybrid powertrain. The European sales performance was significantly impacted in April due to restriced movement in several key markets including Germany, the UK, France, Italy and Belgium. year-on-year. in same month last year.
Baua Electric
APRIL 11, 2024
The market share of fully electric trucks and buses is growing at an impressive pace in Europe, according to a new report from the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT). of Australia’s bus fleet is electric). According to the ICCT, in Q4 of 2023, 43% of all new city buses sold in Europe were fully electric.
Green Car Congress
MAY 14, 2020
The higher level of recuperation means the electric articulated bus is always highly efficient, regardless of the driver’s driving style or the topography. In the MAN Lion’s City 18 E, the fully electric driveline produces between 320 kW and a maximum of 480 kW. —Rudi Kuchta, Head of Business Unit Bus at MAN Truck & Bus.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 18, 2020
This is because of cheaper electricity, lower EV retail prices and higher purchase incentives in France. The taxi and ride-hailing markets are best positioned to go fully electric first. It kicked off last November in the US, France, Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands and the UK.
Baua Electric
APRIL 4, 2024
Unveiled in 2019, the Polestar 2 put the brand on a new path toward becoming an all-electric automaker. The Polestar 2 is the brand’s first fully electric vehicle after the Polestar 1, a hybrid with up to 78 miles of electric range. It’s sold in 26 markets globally.
Green Car Congress
MAY 15, 2019
In 2017 Volvo Cars committed that all new Volvo cars launched from 2019 would be electrified. The company has since reinforced this strategy, by stating that it aims for fully electric cars to make up 50% of its global sales volume by 2025. Plug-in hybrid variants of the XC40 are already manufactured there.
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