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China April 2021

EV Sales

Plugins are a hot item in China, having scored over 175,000 units last month, jumping 173% regarding the same month last year, with BEVs in particular growing an amazing 204% rate. April was the second month in a row that the plugin share reached the two-digits mark, by hitting 10% (8.2% BEV), keeping the 2021 share at 10% (8.1%

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Drive Electric Submission Land Transport (Clean Car) Amendment Bill

Drive Electric

Parliament Buildings. As such, we propose a building in a potential review of the emissions standards beyond 2025, in 2024. 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. Committee Secretariat.

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The Big Picture

Cars That Think

builds its rechargeable transit and charter buses. BYD says it owes its preeminence in the electric-bus market to the fact that its buses’ iron-phosphate batteries can be topped off through the AC or DC plugin ports, via overhead catenaries, and from inductive chargers embedded in road surfaces.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Small long-term evaluation program, including modeling of vehicle-to-grid building benefits and economics, begun with Southern California Edison, joined by EPRI, other utilities, US DOE. 5/17/06 "Plugin hybrids have a lot of promise, especially to displace oil consumption. Establishing dealer network. Ford Escape PHEV-40 around 2012.

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