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EEB report finds only Belgium and Slovakia on track to meet EU air pollution targets

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However, only eight countries submitted it by the deadline (Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, the Netherlands, Portugal, Finland, Sweden, the United Kingdom), while some other governments submitted theirs more than a year later. Greece, Luxembourg and Romania have still not delivered their program and Italy has only submitted a draft.

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Volvo Cars January global sales up 2%; Recharge models up 31%, for 40.7% of all cars sold

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The increase was led by markets such as the UK, Italy and Belgium. The share of fully electric cars stood at 16.2%. European sales for January reached 21,436 cars, up 14.7% compared with the same period last year. Recharge sales, which in addition to fully electric cars also includes plug-in hybrids, accounted for 59.8%

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

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tonnes) registered in the European Union were fueled by diesel; the market share of gasoline in this segment was close to zero. of the EU bus market in 2019, with electrically-chargeable vehicles (ECV) making up 4.0% France was the only market to post modest growth (+2.4%) in registrations of new diesel buses. Last year, 85.0%

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European EV Policy & Sales Trends — Greece, Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Austria, Belgium, Germany, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, & UK

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In the latest episode of Cleantech Talk, José Pontes of EAFO and EV Volumes provided us with a thorough exploration of varying electric vehicle sales trends and the policies that have driven them in several European countries. While you can indeed listen to the podcast and get the story, José actually brought a lot of charts […].

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Punch Group acquires GM propulsion engineering center in Turin; global center of excellence for diesel

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Belgium-based Punch Group has acquired GM’s propulsion engineering center in Turin, Italy. Punch Group plans to reposition the company with developments for new market segments while continuing to provide engineering services to GM. — Punch Group Founder and CEO Guido Dumarey.

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4Q 2019: EU diesel demand continues to drop while gasoline gains; plug-ins up 80.5% y-o-y

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of the EU market, while electrically?chargeable powered vehicles (APV) combined held a market share of 13.2%. Despite this overall decline, some markets are starting to show signs of recovery. Diesel demand increased again in two of the biggest EU car markets: France (+7.3%) and Germany (+4.3%). All alternatively?powered

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Volvo Cars trucks-to-trains swap significantly cuts emissions in logistics network

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Especially in Europe, where trucks are still ubiquitous in transporting new cars to distribution depots and dealerships in individual markets, the company is in the process of reducing emissions by replacing more and more transports by trucks with rail transport.

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