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EVs Take 27.9% Share In France, & The Peugeot e-208 Is Still On Top

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share in France, growing from a 25.4% Overall auto volume was 180,024 units, marginally down YoY, though well below 2017–2019 seasonal norms (~230,000). Share In France, & The Peugeot e-208 Is Still On Top appeared first on CleanTechnica. March’s auto market saw plugin EVs take a 27.9% share year-on-year.

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ACEA: electric buses made up 4% of new bus registrations in Europe in 2019

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of the EU bus market in 2019, with electrically-chargeable vehicles (ECV) making up 4.0% In 2019, EU demand for diesel buses decreased by 3.1% France was the only market to post modest growth (+2.4%) in registrations of new diesel buses. Across the entire European Union, only eight gasoline buses were sold in 2019.

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France EV Share Grows In May, Fiat 500 Leads

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France, Europe’s second largest auto market, saw plugin electric vehicles take 20.9% Overall auto volumes were down 10% YoY, and down by around a third from May 2019, at 126,811 units. share in April, from 17.3% year-on-year. Full battery electrics grew their share by almost 1.5x YoY, to 12%.

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4Q 2019: EU diesel demand continues to drop while gasoline gains; plug-ins up 80.5% y-o-y

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In the last quarter of 2019, EU demand for diesel cars further decreased , dropping to 29.5% of total new car sales across the region from October to December last year. Overall in 2019, almost 60% of all new cars registered in the European Union ran on gasoline (58.9%, compared to 56.6% from October to December 2019).

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France Plugin EV Share 21.1% In April, New Bestseller

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France saw plugin electric vehicles take 21.1% compared to pre-pandemic April 2019, at a volume of 108,723 units. of the auto market in April, up from 14.8% year-on-year. Full battery electrics continued to dominate over plugin hybrids. The overall passenger auto market was down 22.6% YoY, and down 44.2%

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Sales of chargeable vehicles more than triple in EU in Q3 to take 9.9% new market share

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in July-September 2019 to 75.4% of total passenger car sales in the European Union, with registrations falling by 13.7% Gasoline car sales posted an even stronger drop (-24.3%), going from more than 1.7 Both Germany and France recorded percentage increases of more than 400% each. Diesel cars accounted for 27.8%

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Renault investing > ?1B for development and production of EVs in France

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billion) for the development and production of electric vehicles in France. The acceleration of our investments in France for electric vehicles will increase the competitiveness and attractiveness of our French industrial sites. —Carlos Ghosn, Chairman and CEO of Renault. market share in 2017.

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