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UK April Plugin Electric Vehicle Share Over 13% Even After Grant Cuts

CleanTechnica EVs

The UK saw plugin electric vehicle market share at 13.25% in April 2021, with full electrics at a healthy 6.5% despite recent cuts in the government’s plugin car grant. The overall auto market continued to recover on showroom reopening, but remained down 13% from typical seasonal volume.

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JATO Dynamics: 17% of new passenger car registrations in Europe in April were electrified

Green Car Congress

For instance, in Scandinavia, citizens were granted more freedom of movement, thus registrations fell by 37%, the lowest decrease. Demand fell by 46% compared to April 2019 but it was mostly due to the hybrid cars, which saw a decline of 66% to 18,900 units.

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China’s largest carmaker to cut thousands of jobs at its joint ventures with GM and Volkswagen

Baua Electric

3 electric car (Source: SAIC-VW) Amid an intense price war and lost market share to BYD and Tesla, China’s state-owned automaker SAIC Motor is reportedly making drastic job cuts this year at its joint ventures with General Motors and Volkswagen and at its EV unit – with mass layoffs a rare move for a China-owned company. SAIC-VW ID.3

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Ford F-150 Lightning charges five EVs overnight, survives with battery to spare

Teslarati

That’s a lot of energy that can be used to power a variety of things, including other electric cars. . This was highlighted by the fact that Ford included a Tesla adapter with the vehicle, just in case owners of the all-electric pickup truck encounter a stranded Tesla.

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Europe’s Most Financed Luxury Car Brand

EV Info

This help to show that BMW is more of a bank than a car company. It’s a 3-way tie for 2nd place as Porsche, Tesla & Mercedes-Benz are the most popular luxury car brands in 3 countries each. Audi is 5th place with 2 countries. Both in the UK and Ireland, Audi and BMW are joint first place (18.1k

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New EV electric car calendar

EV Central

All the new electric cars, electric SUVs and electric utes arriving in Australia in 2021, 2022 and 2023. READ MORE: Every electric ute and pick-up coming soon! READ MORE: Every new electric car coming to Australia in 2022. Audi RS e-Tron GT. Likely to arrive in Australia late in 2021.

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VW and BMW EV Plans, Rivian Charging Networks – EV Week in Review: March 16-22

EV Adoption

Another week with automakers sharing plans to either curtail development of internal combustion engines or share their EV sales goals – in this case German luxury OEMs, Audi and BMW. The government also lowered the price cap for cars eligible for the subsidy from £50,000 to £35,000. Automakers and Models.

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