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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% 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, the number of diesel cars registered across the European Union fell by 3.7%

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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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In 2020, Volkswagen Passenger Cars delivered more than 212,000 electric cars in total (+158 percent versus 2019), including nearly 134,000 battery electric vehicles (+197 percent versus 2019). This brought the share of BEV and hybrid vehicles in Europe up to 12.4% in 2019 to 34.8% The most popular model was the ID.3

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JATO: global vehicle sales fall by 39% in March; electrified vehicles up to 17.4% new registration market share in Europe

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million units in March 2020, down by 39% from March 2019. Overall, the total for the first quarter of 2020 already highlights a reduction of 26% Q1 2019 with sales decreasing to 17.42 The passenger cars registrations for Europe-27 were 848,800 units, down by 52% compared to March 2019. Global vehicle sales totalled 5.55

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Mercedes-Benz will be producing 8 all-electric EQ models in 2022

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In May 2019 production of the EQC (combined power consumption: 21.5 In May 2019, the EQC 400 4MATIC as a purely electric vehicle, was integrated into the ongoing series production of the Mercedes-Benz plant in Bremen. —Jörg Burzer, Member of the Board of Management of Mercedes-Benz AG, Production and Supply Chain. solutions.

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A Smart Artificial Pancreas Could Conquer Diabetes

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All commercial artificial pancreas systems are still "hybrid," meaning that users are required to estimate the carbohydrates in a meal they're about to consume and thus assist the system with glucose control. published the results in the New England Journal of Medicine in October 2019.

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