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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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Global vehicle sales totalled 5.55 This represents the largest year-on-year monthly decrease since 1980, when JATO Dynamics started to collect data—even surpassing the global financial crisis in November 2008, which saw a 25% decline in sales. million units in March 2020, down by 39% from March 2019. million units. million units.

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Teijin to establish Teijin Automotive Center Europe to expand capabilities for next-gen automotive components

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Teijin is targeting automotive composite business sales of approximately €1.7 Amid the ongoing shift toward Connected, Autonomous, Shared, and Electric (CASE) automobiles, the automotive industry is transforming its business models to realize more lightweight and multifunctional next-generation vehicles. billion (US$2 billion) by 2030.

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Study finds that EV-specific factors rather than socio-demographic variables better predictors of EV uptake

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This, they suggest, could be because national EV markets were so small relative to overall automobile sales. A second finding is that while the EV-specific factors are significant, broader socio-demographic variables such as income, education level, and environmentalism were not good predictors of adoption levels.

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Frost Sullivan Projects That About 80% of European Vehicle Sales Will Be in the 150 g/km CO2 Band by 2015; EVs as a Strategy of Premium Automakers

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A new report from Frost & Sullivan, Implementation Roadmap of CO 2 Tax Banding in European Countries and Impact Analysis on Powertrain and Green Technology Adoption , finds that about 80% of the European vehicle sales is expected to be in the less than 150 g/km CO 2 emission band by 2015.

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Growing Number of EU Countries Levying CO2 Taxes on Cars and Incentivizing Plug-ins

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At present, 17 of the 27 EU Member States levy CO 2 -related taxes on passenger cars, and 15 governments provide tax incentives for electrically chargeable vehicles, according to the newly published European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA) Tax Guide 2010. Overview of EU CO 2 -based taxes.

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New car sales down in January

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The data, from the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association, shows [.]. It may not be the bleak times of the credit crunch, but demand for new cars slumped dramatically during January. In the first month of the year, new car registrations fell by 7.1 per cent in the EU compared to the same month one year ago.

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This is Volkswagen’s Brilliant Strategy To Dominate The EV Market!

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In the wake of worldwide acceptance which electric cars receiving currently the global automobile giant, Volkswagen had identified electric vehicles as their core business and it’s a huge deal. Volkswagen had tremendous growth in its electric car sales as much as 214% in the last year. Expansion Of Charging Network.

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