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10,000 Toyota drivers sign petition urging company to commit to EVs: ‘Put our future before your profits’

Teslarati

Toyota, which pushed against mandates for zero-emissions guidelines by 2035 in the past, committed to a 100 CO2 reduction in Europe by 2035. However, Toyota still maintains the fastest way to reduce CO2 emissions is through hybrid vehicles and not rapid electrification.

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EPA Trends on EVs and PHEVs; beginning of a “measurable and meaningful impact” on new vehicle fuel economy and emissions

Green Car Congress

The EPA report is an authoritative reference for CO 2 emissions, fuel economy, and powertrain technology trends for new personal vehicles in the United States. Of the major manufacturers (production above 100,000 vehicles), Nissan had the highest concentration of AFV production at 2.0%, followed by GM at 1.2%. EPA Trends report.

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EPA annual trends report finds new vehicle fuel economy at record 24.1 mpg; new powertrain technologies rapidly gaining share

Green Car Congress

EPA released the latest edition of its annual report on trends in CO 2 emissions, fuel economy and powertrain technology for new personal vehicles in the US. The EPA report is the authoritative reference for carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions, fuel economy, and powertrain technology trends for new personal vehicles in the United States.

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Global Top 20 - December 2020

EV Sales

3 jumping to the podium for the first time, thanks to a record (and somewhat unexpected) 28.000 registrations in December, such high number could be related to the EU's CO2 emission compliance rules, so we will have to see if the German hatchback will be able to replicate this performance soon.Say, in March?

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What Are The Benefits of Driving an Electric Car?

Drive Electric

That rapid blast of acceleration produces a grand total of 0g/km CO2 emissions. A similar performance saloon car with a sub-5 second 0-60 time emits CO2 in the region of 225g/km. Long-gone are the days where the term ‘electric vehicle’ was synonymous with the Nissan Leaf. Batteries to ICEs. Pick a car, any car. Availability.

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Europe December 2020

EV Sales

Looking at the remaining December Best Sellers , the Nissan Leaf was #7, with the 5,424 registrations of last month representing the hatchback best performance in 33 months(!), A reference also to the Nissan Leaf, that jumped to #7, which was still insufficient to reach the 4th spot it had in 2019.

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Domestic Tesla Model Y dominated the German EV market in January

Push EVs

There may remain some distorting PHEV incentives in, e.g., company tax rates, and similar (beyond simply the lower rated CO2 emissions). Tesla lost 1.5%, Stellantis gained 2.2%, and Renault–Nissan gained 1.1%. It will be several more months before we can begin to detect what the new steady-state market share of PHEVs is likely to be.

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