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2021 Q1 Sales by OEM

EV Sales

The BMW Group ended the first quarter of the year in the 4th place, improving on the #5 of 2020, benefiting from the implosion of the Renault-Nissan Alliance (a year ago, the Alliance had 11% share, now it has 5%.) and the popularity of its PHEV lineup. All bets are on. it had 12 months ago.

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How do Chinese language EV makers roll out unutilized merchandise so temporarily?

Baua Electric

In the meantime, in Europe, BMW was once pushing the concept that consumers want to have a call and that they’d trade in their usual vehicles with ICE or BEV choices. They create PHEVs and in addition ICEs. Alternative examples may well be Brilliance-BMW, Dongfeng-Honda, and FAW-Toyota. Lynk&Co Any other Geely model.

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Pike Research makes 10 electric vehicle predictions for 2013

Green Car Congress

Battery swapping pioneer Better Place, which saw key executives leave in 2012, has failed to capture the expected number of subscribers to its EV service in the initial launch market of Israel and borrowed money to continue the expensive build-out of battery swap stations in Denmark. BMW will begin to sell its long awaited BEV (the i3).

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Greenlings: Benefits of charging stations vs. battery swaps vs. home charging

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Therefore, until we get quick-charge batteries -- based on new breakthroughs, Ill take a WAG and estimate that we will have real 5-minute quick-charge batteries in perhaps 10 years -- we are likely to get our juice mostly from our home chargers. for 2012 Featured stories Feed Greenlings: What is regenerative braking?