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BYD and Shell partner on EV charging across China and Europe; R&D on battery performance and advanced charging

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BYD and Shell signed a strategic cooperation agreement to help accelerate the energy transition and improve charging experience for BYD’s battery electric vehicle (BEV) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) customers. The partnership will start in China and Europe and will extend to other regions across the globe.

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Global EV and PHEV sales rocketed in January, but here’s why analysts are gloomy

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The reason for their pessimism is total sales of electrified vehicles actually fell by an alarming 26 per cent compared to December 2023, with subsidy cuts in both France and Germany as well as a poor performance in China blamed for the fall in demand. Chevrolet Blazer EV SS … GM is now investing in PHEVs too.

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Volvo Cars global sales drop 20.2% in January; electrified cars accounted for 31.7% of total

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Sales of Volvo Cars’ Recharge (electrified) models increased by 11.5% In January 2021, Recharge models had a 22.7% Of the Recharge models sold in January 2022, 11,944 were plug-in hybrids (79% of the Recharge total, 25% of overall total), while 3,127 were fully electric (21% of Recharge total, 6.6% of total sales).

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Fraunhofer ISI/ICCT analysis of PHEV data finds real-world CO2 emissions 2-4x higher than official values

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For the study, the authors analyzed a comprehensive dataset of the real-world usage patterns for plug-in hybrid vehicles in Europe, North America, and China. The real-world share of electric driving for PHEVs, on average, is about half the share considered in the type-approval values.

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Volvo Cars global sales grew 30.2% in January; PHEVs and EVs account for 23% of all sales globally, 41% in Europe

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Starting 2021 on a strong note, Volvo Cars reported the best January in its history as Europe, China and the US all reported increasing sales. to 59,588 cars, boosted by a strong year-on-year performance in China where the company more than recovered losses from earlier COVID-19 shutdowns. In China, sales grew by 91.3%

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Efficient Drivetrains awarded bus fleet order for the City of Sheyang, China

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(EDI) has received a major order for its EDI PowerDrive 6000 systems from the city of Sheyang in China. The company’s EDI PowerDrive 6000 PHEV drivetrain system surpassed one million miles in a commercial fleet setting in late 2016. Industry reports expect that bus market will reach more than 200,000 PHEV and EV vehicles by 2020.

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Volvo Car Group exceeds 600,000 vehicles sold on the CMA platform

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Due to its modular design, the platform was used to create the Lynk & Co 01, 02, 03 and 05, as well as the pure electric 2020 Polestar 2 and Volvo’s first all-electric model, the XC40 Recharge. The CMA platform is the foundation for the new Volvo XC40 Recharge; the first of Volvo’s fully-electric Recharge range. billion (US$1.6

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