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65% Plugin Vehicle Share in the Netherlands! Volkswagen ID.3 Shines!

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The top 10 vehicles in the Netherlands in December in terms of registrations were all 100% electric vehicles. That score was only behind the all-time record set a year ago when the EU’s CO2 fleet rules […].

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ACEA: electric buses made up 4% of new bus registrations in Europe in 2019

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of all new medium- and heavy-buses (over 3.5 All alternatively-powered vehicles (APV) combined accounted for 15.0% of the EU bus market in 2019, with electrically-chargeable vehicles (ECV) making up 4.0% Last year, registrations of new electric buses in the EU increased by 170.5% Last year, 85.0% of total EU bus sales.

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Volkswagen Passenger Cars lifts global deliveries of BEV vehicles by 197% and of electric vehicles overall by 158% in 2020

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In 2020, Volkswagen Passenger Cars delivered more than 212,000 electric cars in total (+158 percent versus 2019), including nearly 134,000 battery electric vehicles (+197 percent versus 2019). This brought the share of BEV and hybrid vehicles in Europe up to 12.4% in Germany in the BEV market and 23% in the Netherlands.

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Corvus Energy to supply batteries for five new electric ferries

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Corvus Energy has been selected by Holland Ship Electric to supply lithium-ion battery-based energy storage systems (ESS) for five new all-electric ferries being built by Holland Shipyards Group, a total system integrator of electric systems for the global marine market, for Amsterdam’s municipal public transport provider, GVB.

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Damen delivers hybrid tugboat to Royal Netherlands Navy; up to 30% lower fuel consumption, 40% fewer emissions

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International shipyard group Damen recently delivered the first of a series of three hybrid tugboats (ASD TUGs 2810 Hybrid) to the Royal Netherlands Navy (RNLN). meter hybrid tug is named Noordzee and is the first standard hybrid tug supplied by Damen that the RNLN will employ.

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ZF and MKR Technology develop hybrid drive for the Dakar Rally

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ZF has developed a new hybrid driveline for the Dakar off-road race. The core of this driveline is a special prototype of ZF’s central electric axle drive, reconfigured in terms of its hardware and software to make it fit for a rally. Besides the extra power, the time advantage is due the recuperation effect of the electric motor.

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Netherlands: 32% Of New Cars Sold Now Plugin Cars

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That’s mostly thanks to pure electrics (21% of all new vehicle sales), which jumped 48% year […]. Chinese Lynk & Co 01 PHEV #1 in May In the context of a falling overall market, down 7% year over year (YoY) in May, the Dutch plugin vehicle (PEV) market has continued to grow, reaching 32% last month.

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