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Auto sales drop to new low in Norway

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Norway saw plugin electric vehicles take 76.3% January’s combined plugin result of 76.3% plugin hybrids (PHEVs). The new policies affect both plugins and non-plugins, although the latter are hit much harder. For example, petrol-only vehicles (with relatively high CO2 emissions) are now taxed much higher in Norway.

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

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Norway increased its plugin electric vehicle market share to 91.1% This is the first time Norway has seen 3 consecutive months with combined plugin share staying above 90% (see graph below). This is the first time Norway has seen 3 consecutive months with combined plugin share staying above 90% (see graph below). year-on-year.

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Europe December 2020

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While the overall automotive market is still in red (-4% YoY), in December, Europe's passenger plugin market had an historic month, having registered a record 281,000 registrations (+264% YoY!), adding an amazing 115,000 units to the previous record, set in the previous month. Disruption Zone , as the 2020 PEV share ended at 11% share (6.2%

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Drive Electric Submission Land Transport (Clean Car) Amendment Bill

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The vast majority of new vehicles, a little over 80% by volume, imported into New Zealand are currently built to Australian Design Rules (ADR) standards. Further, in 2020, the Australian car industry signed up to a new voluntary agreement to reduce vehicle CO2 emissions between 2021 and 2030. Vans: 147 g CO2/km. See below 10 ).

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BYD Atto3 launch event notes | Key takeaways

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exclusively designed for next generation of electric vehicles. 76,774,796 kg of CO2 was saved in India as of 2022. In 2018, BYD holds the Worldwide Developers Conference, the first developers conference in the automotive industry's 132-year history. BYD are a tech company and 1.4 B $ was spent on RnD last year.

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Automakers agree on common plug to recharge electric vehicles

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This car was bought in or designed for america! They should have taken more time in designing the standard, and taken the opportunity to add data services. Nuclear waste is a problem much harder to solve than CO2, and dams have quite an impact in the environment. Neutral BloodyHell @ Apr 19th 2009 9:01PM Oi!

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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Audi Volkswagen-owned company exploring PHEVs Metroproject Quattro Sub-compact PHEV Concept Car shown October 2007; PHEV of A1 Sportback under consideration Bright Automotive For-profit spin off from Rocky Mountain Institute designing lightweight PHEVs, successor to RMIs 1990s "Hypercar" concept. Red Herring ). Reuters ).

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