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Chevrolet Phones It In With The E-Ray, A Non-Plugin Hybrid Corvette

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In some ways, Chevrolet’s new Corvette E-Ray is pretty cool. “In In 1953, the enthusiastic reaction to the Chevrolet Corvette concept kicked off seven decades of passion, performance and American ingenuity,” said Mark Reuss, General Motors president. “E-Ray,

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20 Top Selling Plugin Vehicles Globally — Charts

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Global plugin vehicle registrations were up 94% last month compared to July 2020, scoring 480,000 units (or 7.1% That made it the plugin market’s third best month ever. Fully electric vehicles (BEVs) represented 66% of plugin registrations in July, in line with the year-to-date (YTD) tally. In total, there […].

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11% Plugin Vehicle Share in China!

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Plugin electric vehicles are a hot item in China right now, and they scored a near-record 211,000 registrations last month. Last month’s plugin vehicle share actually reached the two-digit mark for the […].

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Top 20 Plugin Electric Vehicles in the World — August 2021

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Global plugin vehicle registrations were up 114% in August 2021 compared to August 2020, scoring 516,000 units (or 7.7% That made it the plugin market’s third best month ever, and expect September to be another record month. Fully electric vehicles (BEVs) represented 71% of plugin registrations in August, slightly […].

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Why PHEVs Like GM’s Next Volt Need At Least 60 Miles Of Real EV Range

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With recent news that GM is going to re-introduce plugin hybrids in 2027, it’s likely that the company is still figuring out the design. So, I wanted to offer some unsolicited advice GM and everyone else going back to PHEVs need to think as they put new designs together and.

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Tesla Model 3 & Model Y = #1 and #2 in Global EV Sales in May

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Global plugin vehicle registrations were up an impressive 199% last month compared to May 2020, to some 442,000 units (or 6.6% We should be seeing the plugin vehicle […]. share of the overall auto market). That was the industry’s 3rd best month ever.

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Corvette E-Ray’s Carbon Fiber Wheels Give Us A Peek At Future PHEV & BEV Corvettes

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While a BEV would have been preferable, GM couldn’t even be bothered to make it a plugin hybrid with real EV range. Here at CleanTechnica, we’re definitely disappointed in the Corvette E-Ray.