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Earth Day 2024: each day is about reducing emissions | Autocar Professional

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Earth Day is now a global event each year, and over a billion people across 192 countries now take part in what is the largest civic-focused day of action in the world. The shift to eco-friendly electric mobility is underway globally. In CY2023, global sales of electric vehicles (EVs) scaled a new high – over 13.6

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A third of Aussies back 2030 ICE ban claims Polestar survey

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A survey commissioned by the electric vehicle maker Polestar has found 34 per cent of Australian drivers support a ban on petrol and diesel cars by 2030. Polestar 3 large SUV with camouflage. “A The Australian response is in line with the global numbers the survey returned. With just 1.5 degrees C]. “We

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Why Hybrids are gaining momentum amid EV frenzy | Autocar Professional

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The hybrid vehicles — dual powered by a petrol engine and an electric motor — are gathering strong traction amongst SUV buyers versus all electric battery-operated passenger vehicles. That number is higher for the global hybrid specialist Toyota Urban Cruiser Hyryder — a third of these sold are hybrids.

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EV gameplan: Strategic tie-ups, fund raising, the way forward | Autocar Professional

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Klaus Zellmer, the global CEO of Skoda Auto, has visited India thrice in the past 18 months. For the global head of an international automaker to devote so much time to one market may seem unusual, but for the Czech brand — that has been around in India for 20 years — the stakes in this country have never been higher.

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Volvo To Go All Electric By 2030 – EV Week in Review: Feb 23-Mar 1

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The Swedish carmaker said 50% of its global sales should be fully-electric cars by 2025 and the other half hybrid models. a collaboration that could see the Taiwanese firm building Fisker electric cars for global markets beginning in 2023. – March 1, via Reuters. ” – Volvo Chief Executive Håkan Samuelsson.

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It’s a green light for electric vehicles! Aussie CO2 standard tough on Toyota, SUVs and utes

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Previewed in an Impact Analysis published on Sunday (February 4), the newly renamed National Vehicle Efficiency Standard (NVES), will impose tough CO2 emissions limit on passenger vehicles, SUVs, utes and vans that ramp up around 12 per cent per year from 2025 to 2029 under the government’s preferred model.

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The EV Transition Explained: Local Policies Shape Global Competition

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This is to try to meet the Paris Agreement of limiting global warming to 1.5 Achieving this transformation will be through what the New York Times describes as “ economic nationalism ” with electric vehicles (EVs) as the tip of the spear for economic, environmental and societal change. Volkswagen’s ID.4 Volkswagen of America, Inc.

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