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EC approves second major battery innovation project; €2.9B (US$3.5B) from 12 member states

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The project, called “European Battery Innovation” (EuBatIn) was jointly prepared and notified by Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland, Slovakia, Spain and Sweden. The project complements the first IPCEI in the battery value chain that the Commission approved in December 2019 with €3.2

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Plug In America joins global alliance

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For example, the market share for plug-in vehicles in Germany grew from 3% in 2019 to 13.5% million in 2019, despite the COVID-19 pandemic and accompanying economic downturn. In addition, the adoption of supportive policies will help boost the shift to electric transportation. in 2020, and the UK market went from 3.2%

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Tesla Model 3 Europe’s best-selling pure EV in February in its first full month on the market

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Overall, the European car market registered its sixth consecutive month of decline in February 2019, as 1.14 It was the best performing SUV in Austria, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, and the second best in Germany, Croatia, Denmark and Italy. million vehicles were registered.

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Study: air pollution causes 800,000 extra deaths a year in Europe and 8.8 million worldwide

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Excess death rates were particularly high in eastern European countries, such as Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania and Ukraine, with more than 200 each year per 100,000 of the population. When they looked at individual countries, the researchers found that air pollution caused an excess death rate of 154 per 100,000 in Germany (a reduction of 2.4

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