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BYD offers discounts for Song and Seal as China's auto price war intensifies

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Image from BYD's Weibo) As the price war intensifies in China's auto industry, BYD has also started offering discounts for its two models, even though the official prices remain unchanged. Song family models sold 52,400 units in February , BYD's highest sales in the month, contributing 27 percent of all its passenger car sales.

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EVs Take 55% Of The German Auto Market In December!

CleanTechnica EVs

The tide has turned in the electrification of the German auto market, with plugin electric vehicles taking the majority of sales for the first time in December. of the month’s passenger auto sales, with full electrics taking a third (33.2%), and plugin hybrids taking over a fifth (22.2%). Plugins took 55.4%

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UK Auto Market Struggling But Full Electrics Still Growing

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share of the auto market in August, up from 18.3% Full electrics saw a decent growth in share whilst plugin hybrids lost share, weighing on the combined plugin result. Overall auto volumes were at 68,858 units, a slight YoY improvement, though still 18.8% The UK saw plugin electric vehicles take 20.2% year on year.

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Italy Might Soon Own a Chunk of Stellantis

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Italian car buyers haven’t warmed to EVs with the same enthusiasm of other European countries, but the government looking to change that. The automaker and government have been at odds for a while, as Setllantis has moved away from Italian auto production in favor of less expensive markets. Image: Maserati] Become a TTAC insider.

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Compressed-Air Hybrid Tech: Peugeot To Offer In 2016 On Subcompacts

Green Car Reports

Last year French automaker PSA Peugeot-Citroen launched a whole new take on the hybrid system: Hybrid Air. While previous air-powered cars have had little more substance than the air that drives them along, the French carmaker''s system is set to appear in actual Peugeot production cars over the next few years.

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Plugins EVs Near Third Of Autos In Germany, Recession Forecast

CleanTechnica EVs

of Europe’s largest auto market, Germany, in October, up from 30.4% This in the context of overall auto market growth of 16.8% Plugin electric vehicles (EVs) gained 32.4% YoY, to 208,642 units. This, however, is still down by almost 25% from the pre-2020 seasonal norms.

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Mitsubishi to debut eight xEVs in next five years: hybrids, plug-in hybrids, EVs

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Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC) plans to introduce eight hybrid (HEV), plug-in hybrid (PHEV), and battery-powered (BEV) models by fiscal year 2015 in anticipation that demand for low-carbon, fuel-efficient automobiles will expand worldwide. by Jack Rosebro. Mitsubishi will introduce 8 xEVs by FY 2015. Click to enlarge.