Baua Electric
MARCH 27, 2024
Swedish automaker Volvo has rolled out its last diesel-powered vehicle, after a 45-year relationship with the powertrain and cranking out millions of diesel cars. Between 2012 and 2016, diesel accounted for half of the company’s global sales. Since 1991, Volvo made more than 9 million vehicles with diesel engines.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 18, 2020
Medium-sized battery-electric cars are on average 14% cheaper to run than equivalent diesels today, if slow charging overnight near home and/or fast charging at preferential rates are available. T&E’s lifecycle CO 2 emission calculator estimates that today EVs cut CO 2 emissions by two-thirds on average across Europe compared to diesel cars.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 23, 2019
In France, which liberalized the taxi market in 2015, the number of reported PHV drivers doubled in three years (from more than 15,000 in 2016 to 30,000 in 2019). The number of Uber drivers in London almost doubled in three years (from 25,000 in 2016 to 45,000 in 2018), accounting for roughly half the total PHV licence number.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 4, 2020
As expected, the combination of fewer diesel registrations and more SUVs continued to have an impact on emissions. Despite an increase of EV models contributing positively to emission levels, the move away from diesel had a negative impact, one that the market could not offset. BEVs for every diesel car registered.
Baua Electric
JANUARY 16, 2024
The updated Creta has received 25,000 bookings with 55 percent of the bookings for petrol, and 45 percent for diesel. While the Creta went home to around 40,000 buyers in the first six months (July-December) after its launch in July 2015, and achieved the 100,000 milestone in August 2016, the number was doubled in August 2017.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 30, 2016
For the mobility of the future, we are deliberately not committing ourselves to one solitary form of drive system, but to a coexistence of efficient and clean petrol engines, diesels, plug-in hybrids, battery and hydrogen drive systems. Most powerful passenger-car diesel engine: OM 656.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 26, 2018
Battery electric cars emit less greenhouse gases and air pollutants over their entire life cycle than petrol and diesel cars, according to a European Environment Agency (EEA) report. In 2017, gasoline cars became more popular (53% of new registrations) than diesel cars (45%) for the first time since the monitoring started.
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