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April 2023 – Plug-in car market share continues to grow in Norway

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All other powertrains lost volume YoY, with petrol-only vehicles at their 2nd lowest volume of the modern era (just 112 units), and 3rd lowest share ever, just 1.25% of the auto market. Looking at unit volumes, against the background of a 7.7% overall market drop YoY, BEVs grew volume by 3.7% to 7,471 units. Let’s see how it gets on.

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Lessons from a year with solar power

EV Info

With two Electric cars, at the time a Nissan Lean and Mitsubishi Outlander, we use a considerable amount of electricity but not much petrol, so already we were a reasonable way down the less CO2 road. The panels generate DC current that varies with the solar power. Tons of CO2. . Help with reducing our carbon footprint.

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Hertz goes big on EVs, now with 100 Polestar 2s in Australian rental fleet

EV Central

“We need to do some work with our landlords in airports so we can charge those cars,” says Macneill, adding that most charging is likely to be done by 22kW AC chargers, with occasional faster DC chargers at some locations. Places such as Norway already have extensive airport EV charging stations to cater for vast electric car fleets.

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Canoo Pickup, Kia EV6, Honda and Mini EV Plans: EV Week in Review – Mar 9-15

EV Adoption

The company recently executed a purchase and sales agreement on an engineering facility in Tunica , according to Yahoo! Together they have formed the Electric Highway Coalition to provide electric car drivers with a seamless network of DC fast charging stations that spans their respective service areas. – March 10, Politico.

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GM Says Chevrolet Volt Won't 'Pay the Rent' | Autopia from Wired.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Ill never purchase one again, no matter what the mpgs. Theyre not trying to send men to the moon, theyre building an ELECTRIC CAR that uses a petrol motor they already make charging batteries supplied by LG all bolted into a vehicle platform they also already have in production. So is the management in Washinton DC. thats right.

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