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Daimler Buses acquires a 5.25% stake in IVU AG; strategic partnership for integrated mobility

Green Car Congress

As a leading manufacturer, we are already advising our costumers today on how to make the most of our buses and especially our electric buses. In 2018 Daimler Buses saw major sales growth, selling 30,900 buses and chassis worldwide (compared with 28,700 in the prior year). Return on sales was 5.9 percent (compared with 6.2

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SEAT to introduce 500 km MEB-based EV, Leon PHEV in 2020

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SEAT, a member of the Volkswagen Group, will introduce its first fully electric vehicle in 2020. The first two vehicles will be the SEAT Tarraco and the CUPRA Ateca, which are going on sale at the end of 2018. The first two vehicles will be the SEAT Tarraco and the CUPRA Ateca, which are going on sale at the end of 2018.

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The 2021 Audi Q4 Sportback e-tron 4-door, 5-passenger EV coupe crossover is here!

Current EV

Audi sold just over 224,000 vehicles in 2019 and launched the brand’s first fully electric vehicle, the Audi e-tron – one of four fully electric models coming to the U.S. In Norway, which has a huge EV appetite, an incredible 92% of all Audi car deliveries there were e-trons. In the U.S.,

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Software update boosts range of MY2019/2020 Audi e-tron by up to 20 km; capacity, motor control, cooling

Green Car Congress

The software update for all Audi e-tron 55 quattro production vehicles built between mid-September 2018 (model year 2019) and the end of November 2019 (model year 2020) can now be installed free of charge at Audi service partners. In Norway, the model was the best-selling car across all drive types last year.

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This Volvo and Harris Poll Study investigates the state of EVs in America

Current EV

This survey was conducted online within the United States by The Harris Poll on behalf of Volvo from October 11-17, 2018, among 1,510 U.S. The EV sector includes HEVs (Hybrid Electric Vehicles), PHEVs (Plug-In Electric Vehicles), and BEVs (Battery Electric Vehicles). Methodology. Driven largely in China, the U.S.,

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Nearly one in five cars sold worldwide in 2023 was electric: IEA | Autocar Professional

Baua Electric

This is more than six times higher than in 2018, just 5 years earlier. Electric cars accounted for around 18% of all cars sold in 2023, up from 14% in 2022 and only 2% five years earlier, in 2018. These trends indicate that growth remains robust as electric car markets mature. Around 2% of all cars sold were electric.

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We Need More Than Just Electric Vehicles

Cars That Think

Each stage in production matters—mining, refining, and producing the raw materials, manufacturing the components, and finally assembling them into cells and battery packs. Where all this happens matters, too, because a battery factory uses a lot of electricity, and the source for that electricity varies from one region to the next.