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Audi will phase out gas engines by 2033, reversing past stance of CEO

Teslarati

Duesmann said that “Audi is ready to make its decisive and powerful move into the electric age,” finally accepting the challenge of ditching gas engines for electric ones. Audi, a German company, owned by Volkswagen Auto Group, has sold the e-tron and the Q2L SUV for the powerful Chinese EV market.

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Global auto production may hit 80+ million units this year; hybrids below 2% of total output

Green Car Congress

China, for instance, wants to put 5 million plug-in hybrid-electric and fully electric vehicles on its roads by 2020, which could account for more than 40% of the global EV fleet that year. Automobiles are major contributors to air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. million EVs and a fleet of 3.5

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Can Electric Vehicles Speed Up As The Economy Slows Down?

Wallbox

As a result of the lockdown, automobile production ground to a halt in several leading car manufacturing countries. last month, but battery electric vehicle sales decreased by only 58.1%. Chinese car producer BYD even recorded a 337.25% increase in March sales amongst its fully electric and hybrid car models.

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