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Mercedes-Benz eActros 300 Tractor Ready For Series Production

Electric Cars Report

The eActros 300 Tractor for distribution haulage has covered around 3,000 kilometers from the Mercedes-Benz Wörth plant to Aksaray in Turkey, where the road endurance and reliability testing of the electric truck will be taking place. Test engineers chose a route across Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia and Bulgaria for the trip.

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Half of EU Electric Car Chargers in Just Two Countries!

CleanTechnica EVs

I’ve followed the European electric car and EV charger market for a decade. Nonetheless, I was shocked to see the figure that just came out from an EU EV charging analysis conducted by the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA) — “half of all charging points for electric […].

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EEA: average CO2 emissions from new cars and new vans in Europe increased again in 2019

Green Car Congress

EEA said that one reason for the increase in car emissions is the growing share of the sport utility vehicle (SUV) segment. The market penetration of electric cars remained slow in 2019. g CO 2 /km) and Bulgaria (145.1 Vans registered in the EU, Iceland, Norway and the UK in 2019 emitted on average 158.4 g CO 2 /km).

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ACEA: data show EU market for electric cars highly fragmented; need for inclusive measures

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Lowest ECV market share in EU in 2016. ECV Units sold. GDP per capita. The figures also show that customer incentives for purchasing ECVs, and especially their monetary value, differ greatly across Europe.

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Cooler EV Charging Cables, EV Infrastructure, Irizar e-mobility, EV Fast Charging, Tesla, GM

EV Obssesion

New Mexico utilities to invest more than $11 million in electric vehicle infrastructure and education programs Electric Buses Irizar e-mobility strengthens its position in Bulgaria with a new contract award for Stara Zagora, a city in the centre of the country […].

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EEA: average CO2 emissions from new cars and new vans in Europe increased in 2018

Green Car Congress

The main factors contributing to the increase of new passenger cars’ emissions in 2018 include the growing share of gasoline cars in new registrations, in particular in the sport utility vehicle (SUV) segment. Moreover, the market penetration of zero- and low-emission vehicles, including electric cars, remained slow in 2018.

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New cars sold in Europe in 2011 were 3.3% more fuel efficient than those sold in 2010; increasing diesel uptake

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There were 8,700 pure electric cars registered in 2011. While this number is only 0.07% of new cars registered, so did not significantly influence the EU average emissions, it is a 10-fold increase on 2010. Registrations of vehicles using liquefied petroleum gas fell by 76% between 2010 and 2011.

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