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BMW Group sells more than 1M vehicles in first 5 months of 2018; 4.7% electrified; electrified sales up 41%

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The BMW Group sold more than a million vehicles worldwide (1,003,573 / +1.6%) in the first five months of 2018—the Group’s best Jan-May performance to date. These factors contributed to a slight decrease in the company’s monthly sales in May (204,041 / -2.1%). of all BMW brand sales. year-on-year.

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NIO ES8 electric 3-row SUV obtains European whole vehicle type approval

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The EWVTA certification marks an essential foundation for NIO’s entry into Norway and the European market at large. On 6 May, NIO announced its entry into Norway, NIO’s first overseas market. The Regulation (EU) 2018/858, effective since 1 September 2020, has become the new statutory regulation for vehicle type approval in the EU.

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Norway December 2020

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this pace, regular ICE sales will disappear sometime next year! Looking at December model sales by fuel, the Tesla Model 3 interrupted a streak of VW ID.3 A minor surprise comes from the Nissan Leaf, a model that scored 692 registrations last month, its best score in Norway since 2018. 3 by just 16 units.

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EVs market share continues to grow in Norway

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Overall auto sales recovered to close to seasonal norms in February, from the historic low of January. That low came as a hangover effect of new tax policies active from January 1st, which had pulled-forward a large number of auto sales into November and December. Norway’s entire auto fleet is around 2.8 The EL7 is 4.9

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Volkswagen Passenger Cars lifts global deliveries of BEV vehicles by 197% and of electric vehicles overall by 158% in 2020

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Even though it was only introduced in the second half of the year, it ranked in the top of the sales charts in many countries almost right away. —Klaus Zellmer, the board member responsible for Sales of Volkswagen Passenger Cars. 3 was the most frequently delivered BEV in Finland, Slovenia and Norway in December.

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EEA: average CO2 emissions from new cars and new vans in Europe increased again in 2019

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2 -emissions-from-new-cars-vans-2019">According to provisional data published by the European Environment Agency (EEA), average CO 2 emissions from new passenger cars registered in the European Union (EU), Iceland, Norway and the United Kingdom (UK), increased in 2019, for the third consecutive year. g/km more than in 2018.

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GlobalData: growing global electric vehicle market will more than double lithium demand over the next 5 years

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Data and analytics company GlobalData forecasts that the demand for lithium needed for the production of lithium-ion batteries for use in EVs will more than double from 26.7kt in 2018 to 58.3kt in 2022. In Europe, Norway accounted for 5.4% of global sales, followed by Germany (4.8%) and the UK (4.1%). In 2017, 1.1

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