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Why the Kia EV2 won’t be coming to Australia to fight the MG4, BYD Dolphin, GWM Ora and Tesla Model 2

EV Central

The Kia electric car countdown in Australia will not include the cheapest model it has yet previewed, the entry-level EV2. Kia already has the EV6 and EV9 on-sale in Australia – as well as the Niro – and will follow up with the EV5 medium SUV mid-year and the EV3 compact SUV as soon as 2024 and the EV4 sedan in 2025. 2024 Kia EV5.

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Electric Car Sales: Global Top 20

CleanTechnica EVs

Global plugin vehicle registrations were up 55% in May 2022 compared to May 2021. With the China covid lockdown effects easing, sales have recovered most of their previous pace, reaching 699,000 registrations last month. That represents 12% share of the overall auto market (8.6% BEV share).

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20 Top Selling Plugin Vehicles Globally — Charts

CleanTechnica EVs

Global plugin vehicle registrations were up 94% last month compared to July 2020, scoring 480,000 units (or 7.1% share of the overall auto market). That made it the plugin market’s third best month ever. Fully electric vehicles (BEVs) represented 66% of plugin registrations in July, in line with the year-to-date (YTD) tally.

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Top 5 Automakers For Electric Vehicle Sales Globally

CleanTechnica EVs

Top 5 Automakers For Plugin Vehicle Sales Globally To start, we’ll look at full electrics (BEVs) plus plugin […]. It’s 2023, but we’re still aggregating sales data from the various automakers at the end of 2022. The picture of who will win the annual competition is forming clearly.

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Tesla Model 3 & Model Y = #1 and #2 in Global EV Sales in May

CleanTechnica EVs

Global plugin vehicle registrations were up an impressive 199% last month compared to May 2020, to some 442,000 units (or 6.6% share of the overall auto market). That was the industry’s 3rd best month ever. Fully electric vehicles (BEVs) jumped 190%, to some 295,000 registrations (or 4.4%

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Baidu introduces Apollo 3.5, Apollo Enterprise in major advancements to Apollo autonomous driving ecosystem

Green Car Congress

As of today, the Apollo has grown into one of the largest autonomous driving ecosystems in the world, bringing together more than 130 global partners and used by more than 12,000 developers and partners worldwide. Apollo Enterprise. Open Source V2X and Robo-taxis. Baidu also announced at CES that it has open-sourced its V2X solutions.

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Record EV Sales Month Globally! 12% Share For BEVs!!

CleanTechnica EVs

#TheEVFutureIsNow Yep, the EV disruption many of us were dreaming of for years is finally happening, and the proof is that despite all the stuff happening right now — pandemic(s), war, inflation, material shortages, etc., imagine telling what happened in the past two years to our past selves of June 2020 — they would […].

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