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Tesla Model Y takes Europe by storm in Q1, top sold vehicle overall

Teslarati

Tesla has reported that the Tesla Model Y was the best-selling vehicle in Europe overall during the first quarter of the year, but to be fair, it wasn’t all that unexpected. After an incredibly successful production ramp globally in Q1, Tesla reports that the Model Y was the best-selling vehicle in Europe overall.

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Europe Mandates Automatic Emergency Braking

Cars That Think

A case in point is intelligent speed assistance, which Ford has offered in Europe on the S-Max since 2015 and on the more affordable Focus since 2017 , well before the EU had even decided to make it mandatory. “In Formal requirements came long afterwards—in Europe in 2004 and in the United States in 2012. That puts U.S.

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Tesla leads EV sales in Norway, nearly eliminates ICE competition in March

Teslarati

Since the EV transition began, the leader has been Norway, which quickly took to buying electric vehicles ahead of essentially every other country on Earth. Norway’s EV takeoff has seemingly influenced much of Europe, as numerous other countries are seeing similar growth in the year’s first quarter.

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Driving Dystopia: Pickup Sales Are Probably Going to Decline in the UK

The Truth About Cars

But things aren’t quite as simple as that in the United Kingdom. Due to favourable VAT and BIK taxation, the UK is one of the largest markets in Europe for pick-up trucks. The same thing happens for those who elect to buy a larger vehicle with a stouter powertrain. percent] market share in 2023.

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Black carbon is a much larger cause of climate change than previously assessed; about twice previous estimates, and 2/3 the effect of CO2

Green Car Congress

The JGR-Atmospheres Editors decided to provide a platform for this article because we believe that there is great scientific value in reviewing, assessing, and synthesizing a large body of existing literature, and by going beyond the conclusions that any individual paper can reach. In a special comment on the significance of the Bond et al.

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Who Really Invented the Rechargeable Lithium-Ion Battery?

Cars That Think

And yet this transformative invention took nearly two decades to make it out of the lab, with numerous companies in the United States, Europe, and Asia considering the technology and yet failing to recognize its potential. This article appears in the August 2023 print issue as “The Lithium-ion Battery’s Long and Winding Road.”