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Volvo Cars all-electric sales climb to 19% of all sales in February

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Volvo Cars reported global sales of 51,286 cars in February, up 22% compared to the same month last year and a record for the month of February. The sales growth was led by the company’s Recharge line up of fully electric and plug-in hybrid cars.

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Volvo Cars Q1 sales up 10% to 162,938 units; all-electric vehicles took 18% share

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The sales growth was mainly led by the company’s fully electric cars. For the month of March, Volvo Cars sold 63,132 cars globally, up 8% compared with the same month last year. The share of fully electric cars (12,621 units) during the period ended up at 18%.

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BYD Delivers Over 3M Plug-in Vehicles In 2023, Beats Tesla In Quarterly EV Sales

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In 2023, BYD achieved a total yearly sales of 3,024,417 new energy vehicles, which includes battery-only and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, a YoY growth of 61.8%. The Chinese company said it had sold a record 526,000 battery-only vehicles in the final quarter of 2023, up from 431,603 all-electric BEVs in Q3.

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Volvo Cars global sales up 31% in May; fully electric cars up 196%

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Volvo Cars reported global sales of 60,398 cars in May, up 31% compared with the same month last year. The company’s fully electric cars were the main contributor to the growth, rising 196% during the period to 10,826 units (). The share of fully electric cars stood at 18%.

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Beijing show: Stunning BYD Ocean-M is a rear-drive electric hot hatch based on an all-new platform

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New BYD super-brand Leopard shows off 4×4 and supercar concepts READ MORE: Meet BYD’s first ute: Chinese brand’s plug-in hybrid dual-cab caught without camouflage No doubt some rival electric car brands like Cupra will contest that!

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Volvo Cars inaugurates new battery assembly line at Ghent manufacturing plant

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Volvo Cars formally inaugurated a new battery assembly line at its Belgian manufacturing plant in Ghent, where it will start building its first fully electric car, the XC40 Recharge P8, later this year. The XC40 Recharge P8 is the first of a family of fully electric Volvos. Volvo XC40 Recharge powertrain.

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Tech: How do Hybrid & Plug-in Hybrid Batteries Recharge? Do I Need to Plug a Hybrid In?

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A Primer on Hybrid Battery Care This article may contain affiliate links. When the first gasoline-electric hybrids vehicles began arriving in 1999 and 2000, early adopters did their research and were quite knowledgeable about the then-new and revolutionary transportation mode. Just occasionally fill up the gas tank and drive away.