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Pike forecasts 26.4% CAGR for electric-drive buses to 2018; hybrid, battery-electric and fuel cell

Green Car Congress

from 2012 to 2018. This latter development is due as much to the fact that developed bus markets may experience a general slowdown, due to austerity measures and the end of stimulus funding, as to any changes in demand for electric drive. would purchase 500 battery electric buses. million kWh by 2018, a CAGR of 42%.

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A New Wildfire Watchdog

Cars That Think

In the case of the 2017 Tubbs Fire, the 2018 Camp Fire, and the 2020 August Complex Fires, high winds blasted flames through populated areas in the early morning hours while residents were sleeping. Once the stimulus is removed, the metal finger reverts to its original shape and the switch opens.

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2020 Top 10 Countries in the Global EV Revolution

EV Sales

The only exception to this geographical intra-Europe rule was Ukraine, entering the Top 10 in 2016-2018 on the power of grassroots-driven lively market of second-hand EV imports, which seems to have stalled in 2019-2020. Personally we will likely make our first outright purchase of an EV this year, after serially leasing 4.5

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