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European car market logs best year for alternative fueled vehicles, lowest diesel share since 2001

Green Car Congress

Poland, Slovakia, Luxembourg and Lithuania all posted record levels of volume, while it was the best year since 2007 for Spain and Estonia, and the best year since 2008 for Romania, Hungary, Croatia and Latvia. In contrast, it was the worst year for registrations in Switzerland since 2010, the UK since 2013, and Norway since 2014.

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EEA: average CO2 emissions from new cars and new vans in Europe increased in 2018

Green Car Congress

After a steady decline from 2010 to 2016, by almost 22 grams of CO 2 per kilometer (g CO 2 /km), average emissions from new passenger cars increased in 2017 by 0.4 Sales of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV) and battery-electric vehicles (BEV) continued to increase. g CO 2 /km. g CO 2 /km in 2018. In 2018, 1.66 compared with 2017.

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Why Warren Buffett is investing in electric car company BYD - Apr. 13, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

BYD has also begun selling a plug-in electric car with a backup gasoline engine, a move putting it ahead of GM, Nissan, and Toyota. Today BYD employs 130,000 people in 11 factories, eight in China and one each in India, Hungary, and Romania. near Motorola, and another 20 or so work in San Francisco, not far from Apple.

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