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European EV Policy & Sales Trends — Greece, Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Austria, Belgium, Germany, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, & UK

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In the latest episode of Cleantech Talk, José Pontes of EAFO and EV Volumes provided us with a thorough exploration of varying electric vehicle sales trends and the policies that have driven them in several European countries. While you can indeed listen to the podcast and get the story, José actually brought a lot of charts […].

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Volvo Cars opens order books for new electric C40 Recharge

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The C40 Recharge will go into production this fall and will be built alongside the XC40 Recharge at the Volvo Cars manufacturing plant in Ghent, Belgium. The company will roll out several additional electric models in coming years and aims for 50% of its global sales volume to consist of fully electric cars by 2025.

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4Q 2019: EU diesel demand continues to drop while gasoline gains; plug-ins up 80.5% y-o-y

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of total new car sales across the region from October to December last year. digit gains were also seen in Belgium (+17.7%), Slovenia (+18.2%), Hungary (+18.4%), Sweden (+30.5%) and Romania (+31.1%). Gasoline car sales grew in all 28 EU countries, with Italy recording the highest percentage increase (+20.9%) of the five major markets.

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EEA: no improvements on average CO2 emissions from new cars registered in 2017 in Europe

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Sales of new passenger cars in the EU increased by 3% in 2017 compared to the previous year. For the first year since monitoring started, gasoline cars became the most sold vehicles in the EU, constituting almost 53% of sales. and 2.6 % respectively of national car sales in 2017. Source: EEA. A total of 15.1 percentage point).

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Europe January 2021

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PHEVs shine in disrupted market The European passenger plug-in market registered 112,000 registrations in January (+50% YoY), with PHEVs (+85%) growing faster than BEVs (+18%), with PHEVs starting the year ahead of BEVs (42% BEVs / 58% PHEVs). reached the 4th place last month. and CCS!), 5 Volkswagen ID.3 4 over the ID.3.

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15 European Countries Have 15%+ Plugin Vehicle Sales (New Car Sales)

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There are now 15 European countries that have 15% or more of new-car buyers buying plugin electric cars (full electric cars or plugin hybrids). There are 12 European countries that have 10% or more of new-car buyers buying full electric vehicles (BEVs). China also passed those milestones in 2021 (15% plugin vehicle share and 12% […].

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Europe April 2021

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Growth came from both plugin fields, with BEVs recovering slightly in the plugin share (46% of sales in April, vs 45% YTD), mostly thanks to the BEV push from the Volkswagen Group, allowing the namesake brand to celebrate a 1-2 win in April, a first for the German maker. Regarding April, the ID.3

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