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UK sells its millionth electric car, fleet market drives BEV demand | Autocar Professional

Baua Electric

The increase was driven entirely by the fleet market, which rose by 29.9%, while private retail uptake fell -15.8%. Fleets accounted for more than six in 10 (63.2%) new cars registered, up from just over half (52.7%) last year. However, while fleet and business demand for BEVs grew by 41.7%

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France December 2020

EV Sales

Looking at last month Best Sellers, if the winner was the usual Renault Zoe, below it, there was a surprise, with the Peugeot models taking the month off, as the French brand had already complied with the EU's 2020 CO2 rules, the 208 EV runner-up spot was up for grabs, and the taker of it was the VW ID.3, Mmmm.discuss.

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Lessons From Norway’s Journey To Becoming The Global Leader In EV Adoption

Wallbox

To learn from its experience, let’s look back through Norway’s 30-year journey to becoming an EV giant: it all started with a mission to curb the country’s CO2 emissions. Curbing CO2 Emissions with Electric Transport. So how did this largely rural Scandinavian country become the global leader in EV adoption?

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What Are The Benefits of Driving an Electric Car?

Drive Electric

The RAC Foundation reports it currently costs – on average – around £80 to fill up a vehicle with petrol or diesel (based on a 55 litre fuel tank). It’s more expensive to fill up with petrol once, than it is to charge an electric car eight times. Having a fleet of EVs completely avoids all of these charges.

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Why Hydrogen power is not the answer

EV Info

Note the clarification of Zero Co2 at the point of use. Liquified hydrogen may be as light as petrol or kerosene, but keeping it at -257C requires much heavier apparatus. But even with a fleet of HTGRs generating hydrogen, the nasty stuff still needs to be stored and moved, and those costs haven’t gone away. Quote: JCB Blog .

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Electric vehicles trends in India

Electric Vehicles India

Electric vehicles have attracted the attention of India’s policy makers as clean technology alternatives due to their multiple advantages like higher efficiency and lower air pollution in short to medium term and reduced CO2 emissions. The entire bus fleet will be turned to electric vehicles. Market overview. Key market trends.

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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Why grant them the privledge to spend our money in the first place? 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. This is what they do and always have done.

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