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Navigant: US to remain largest national plug-in vehicle market over next 10 years; Tokyo to take metro market lead spot from LA

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Navigant expects that Los Angeles, Tokyo, and Paris will be the top cities in all regions examined over the forecast period. The Los Angeles metropolitan area is currently the largest PEV market by unit, with more than 15,000 PEV sales expected in 2014. Electric (Battery) Forecasts Hybrids Plug-ins Sales'

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Tesla maintains control in California as state’s EV sales surge past 1 million

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NEWS: As of Q1 2023, California has now cumulatively surpassed 1 million battery electric vehicle sales. Other interesting statistics released by the California Energy Commission include the incredible disparity in where EVs are sold throughout the state. where Los Angeles, in particular, led the state by an enormous gap.

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Lucid Air Dream gets massive 520-mile range rating in preliminary EPA tests

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Crucially, this landmark has been achieved by Lucid’s world-leading in-house EV technology, not by simply installing an oversize battery pack,” CEO and CTO Peter Rawlinson said. The next generation EV has truly arrived!”. The next generation EV has truly arrived!”. The Dream Edition of the Air sedan is Lucid’s golden egg.

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ABB launches Terra 53 DC fast charger in NA; SAE Combo and CHAdeMO

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This 50 kW DC fast charging station meets both SAE Combo and CHAdeMO standards for battery electric vehicles. ABB was the first company to demonstrate a working prototype of the SAE Combo standard at EVS26 in Los Angeles, and at eCarTec in Munich in 2012.

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Pike Research projects California, New York and Florida to lead US in PEV sales

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The company has now constructed a model for plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) sales at the US state level, metropolitan statistical area (MSA) level and for selected utility company territories. Within the top 10 largest MSAs in the US, New York City and Los Angeles are projected to lead with 116,718 and 96,175 PEVs by 2017.

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Navigant forecasts 18.6% CAGR for plug-ins in North America to 2022; 2.4% new vehicle share in US

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The model for North American PEV sales by US state, metropolitan statistical area (MSA), Canadian province, Canadian city, and selected US utility service area has been updated to better align with actual sales data from the first full year of wide availability of PEVs. Canada Electric (Battery) Forecasts Hybrids Plug-ins'

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Mercedes-Benz reports on 3.3M km of B-Class Fuel Cell testing, looks ahead to next generation

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While Hyundai, Toyota and Honda seized much attention over their presentations of fuel cell rollout plans (in the case of Hyundai) and concepts (in the case of Honda and Toyota) at the Los Angeles and Tokyo auto shows, Daimler used EVS27 in Barcelona as a forum to report on its 3.3 All failures are tracked and statistically evaluated.

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