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Europe February 2021

EV Sales

Tesla Model 3 wins in February Despite a depressing overall market (-20% YoY in February), the European passenger plugin market continues on the rise, having registered over 115,000 units in February (+66% YoY), placing last month plugin share at 14% share (5.9% BEV) , keeping the 2021 PEV share at 14% (5.7% for BEVs alone).

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Europe December 2020

EV Sales

While the overall automotive market is still in red (-4% YoY), in December, Europe's passenger plugin market had an historic month, having registered a record 281,000 registrations (+264% YoY!), adding an amazing 115,000 units to the previous record, set in the previous month. Disruption Zone , as the 2020 PEV share ended at 11% share (6.2%

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Europe April 2021

EV Sales

1-2 win for Volkswagen The European passenger plugin market continues on the rise, having registered over 159,000 units in April, and 616,000 units YTD (+136% YoY), placing last month plugin share at 15% share (7.1% BEV) , keeping the 2021 PEV share to 15% (6.7% for BEVs alone). Looking at April Top 5 Models: # 1 Volkswagen ID.4

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Drive Electric Submission Land Transport (Clean Car) Amendment Bill

Drive Electric

The vast majority of new vehicles, a little over 80% by volume, imported into New Zealand are currently built to Australian Design Rules (ADR) standards. Below is a comparison of the number of Hybrid EV, Battery EV and PlugIn Hybrid EV model variants available in both New Zealand and the UK, as at 31 August 2021: HEV BEV PHEV TOTAL.

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BYD Atto3 launch event notes | Key takeaways

Plug In India

exclusively designed for next generation of electric vehicles. In 2018, BYD holds the Worldwide Developers Conference, the first developers conference in the automotive industry's 132-year history. The LFP (Lithium Iron Phosphate) blade cell and battery pack was unveiled in 2020 In 2021, BYD launches the e-Platform 3.0,

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VIDEO: Driving a Tesla-powered Smart

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The first one was the Zytek design you mentioned, but this is a 2nd "new and improved" design from Tesla, with more power, higher speed and greater range. Reply ↓ ↑ report 10 Chris M 1:48AM (4/26/2009) Actually, there are at least two different "smart EV" efforts.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Audi Volkswagen-owned company exploring PHEVs Metroproject Quattro Sub-compact PHEV Concept Car shown October 2007; PHEV of A1 Sportback under consideration Bright Automotive For-profit spin off from Rocky Mountain Institute designing lightweight PHEVs, successor to RMIs 1990s "Hypercar" concept. Red Herring ). Reuters ).

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