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Sweden Hits 37% Plugin Share In March, New Policy Boost For Full Electrics

CleanTechnica EVs

Sweden saw a plugin electric vehicle market share of 37% in March 2020, up from 27.2% Plugin hybrids gained share from a last minute pull-forward in March, ahead of a policy change from April 1st which now more strongly favours full electric vehicles, and further penalizes carbon emissions. in March 2020.

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Corvette E-Ray’s Carbon Fiber Wheels Give Us A Peek At Future PHEV & BEV Corvettes

CleanTechnica EVs

While a BEV would have been preferable, GM couldn’t even be bothered to make it a plugin hybrid with real EV range. Here at CleanTechnica, we’re definitely disappointed in the Corvette E-Ray.

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Volvo plug-in hybrid bus with B?sbaar rapid charging to begin field testing in Gothenburg; 75-80% reduction in fuel consumption and CO2

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7900 Volvo Plugin Hybrid Charging at Redbergsplatsen in Gothenburg. Volvo Buses has already sold more than 1,000 of its conventional hybrid units; the plug-in version will facilitate the reduction of fuel consumption and carbon dioxide by 75 to 80%, compared with current diesel buses, the company said. Click to enlarge.

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Plug-In Hybrids (or Plugin Hybrids)

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The main study shows that under all nine scenarios for both rates of market penetration of PHEVs and the evolving power grids characteristics (capacity/carbon intensity), PHEVs will vastly reduce greenhouse gases for the next 40 years. But theyve needed definitive proof that PHEVs wont increase pollution.

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The Role of Power Utilities in Turning EVs into a Grid Asset – Part 1

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Much of the progress to date in EV adoption is linked to government policies favoring EVs as a means of achieving carbon emission reduction goals, including government-funded rebates for EV purchases and funding for EV charging infrastructure. Some manufacturers are pledging to produce only EVs by 2030. That’s the good news.

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Expert panel report finds achieving 1M plug-in vehicles in US by 2015 would require concentrated action to overcome barriers

Green Car Congress

So now finally we have the technology to deliver everything to customers and with things like plugins you don’t have the range anxiety so that does kind of relieve most of the tradeoffs, certainly. As electricity production shifts to lower carbon-emitting sources, the environmental promise of PEVs will be enhanced significantly.

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The Big Picture

Cars That Think

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. Pictured is the factory where electric-vehicle maker BYD, based in Santa Dominguez, Calif.,

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