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These are the 2024 World Car of the Year Winners

The Truth About Cars

Brands that were considered from China include BYD, Dayun, Great Wall Motors, Maxus, Nio, Omoda/Chery, Seres, XPeng, and Zeekr. The 2025 Kia EV9 is the World Car of the Year, with the BYD Seal and Volvo EX30 rounding out the top three. KG Mobility from South Korea also made the list of candidates.

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China iCET releases 2014 Green Car China report ranking mainstream cars by green and health impacts

Green Car Congress

SUV: Chery X1 (The segment scores across the range of the smog index). Hybrid: Prius (Hybrids perform well on both smog and green ratings). Small Car: smart (small cars score poorly on the smog index). Compact Car: Sunny. Midsize: Passat. Large: Mercedes-Benz E200. MPV: Meriva. Sports: Scirocco. Luxury: Jaguar XJ.

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Can green cars solve automotive crisis? The Green Piece

Green Cars News

It has established itself as a firm leader in the green car race thanks to the success of the Toyota Prius and Japanese government ecological perks including tax breaks have helped ease the drop in sales with the Prius topping the sales charts in its home country for two successive months.

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Top 20 Plugin Electric Vehicles in the World — August 2021

CleanTechnica EVs

Global plugin vehicle registrations were up 114% in August 2021 compared to August 2020, scoring 516,000 units (or 7.7% share of the overall auto market). That made it the plugin market’s third best month ever, and expect September to be another record month.

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Tesla Model 3 & Model Y Take #1 & #2 In World Record Month For Electric Vehicle Sales!

CleanTechnica EVs

Global plugin vehicle registrations were up an impressive 153% last month compared to June 2020, scoring a record 583,000 units (or 8.7% share of the overall auto market). Add this record performance to the 700,000-plus hybrids and mild hybrids registered last month (their second best month ever) and we get over 1.3

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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% We should be seeing the plugin vehicle […].

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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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