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Porsche flexes e-Motorsport prowess with GT4 ‘ePerfomance’

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Porsche has shown off its electric GT4 ePerformance racecar at an ice track race in Sweden. As a leader in vehicles that put a smile on your face, Porsche is under distinct pressure to bring that same excitement and joy to the EV transition, and it’s clear that it intends to do just that.

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Polestar to Utilize Former Saab Plant as European R&D Facility

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Polestar is reportedly taking over Saab's defunct plant in Sweden to expand upon its European research and development operations. The site was last used by National Electric Vehicle Sweden (NEVS) after Saab folded in 2011. While the Polestar 3 and 4 haven’t yet gone on sale, they’ll also be sharing space.

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EV sales in Norway explode ahead of policy changes

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BEVs saw pull-forward sales, with volume around 2.5x Petrol vehicles also saw a relative sales surge ahead of increased emissions taxes. was completely dominated by full electrics (BEVs), taking 82.8% The reason for the high volume of these two powertrains was pull-forward sales, ahead of looming tax changes in January 2023.

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Europe’s Most Financed Luxury Car Brand

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Latest research from Specialist Car Finance Experts, Forza Finance , has revealed that BMW is the most popular luxury car brand to finance in 16 of Europe’s 44 countries including the UK & Ireland based on finance rather than sales or units. Swedish brand Volvo, fell short against BMW in Sweden – so much for national pride!

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Europe January 2021

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With BMW's plugin hybrid profiting from a fortuity of circumstances, like the fact that the Tesla Model 3 was in an off month , and the Mercedes C-Class arch-rival being close to a generational change ( the new PHEV version has 100 kms (62 mi) electric range! Bring on the popcorn, because the next few months will surely be fun to watch!

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Polestar’s plan to survive and thrive: How an idiosyncratic EV start-up will carve its place in the electric space

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China is firing up with a barrage of brands set to infiltrate Australia – Leapmotor, Xpeng, Zeekr, Lynk & Co among them – and relative newcomers such as BYD, Chery and GWM are forecasting big sales growth as more EVs head our way. The Polestar 2 was the first model offered by the newcomer brand in Australia.

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EVs dominated the UK car market in December

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The UK’s auto market saw plugin electric vehicles take 39.4% share of new sales in December, a new record, up from 33.2% Full electrics alone took almost a third of the market. full battery electrics (BEVs), and 6.5% In terms of volumes , December saw BEVs grow 1.53x from a year ago, to 42,284 sales. BEV, and 7.7%

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