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IHS forecasts global EV charger market to grow to more than 12.7M units in 2020

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The global EV Charger (EVC) market is forecast to grow from more than 1 million units in 2014 to more than 12.7 million units in 2020, according to a new EV Charging Infrastructure report by IHS Inc. Japan accounts for roughly 50% of the global total of all CHAdeMO stations, according to the IHS Automotive report.

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JRC: 76.5% of world’s population in urban areas as of 2015

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The focus of the Atlas of the Human Planet 2019 is on key urbanization and human settlements figures and commented global analysis over 40 years’ time (1975 – 2015). of this global population is accounted in settlements of the urban domain (5.6 Second and third are the United Kingdom (85%) and the Netherlands (82%).

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Volkswagen sold around 394,000 battery-electric vehicles in 2023

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the United Kingdom, Sweden, France, Norway and Belgium. 4 units for a 62.9 By comparison, BEV market leader Tesla sold over 1.8 million vehicles globally in 2023 , while BYD reported around 1.6 By comparison, BEV market leader Tesla sold over 1.8 percent jump year over year.

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Researchers find that the global carbon pool in seagrass beds is as much as 19.9B metric tons

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Per unit area, seagrass meadows can store up to twice as much carbon as the world’s temperate and tropical forests, according to a paper this week in the journal Nature Geoscience. The paper, “Seagrass Ecosystems as a Globally Significant Carbon Stock,” is the first global analysis of carbon stored in seagrasses.

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Finding The Wisest Ways To Global AI Regulation

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And that includes academia, which historically has had a very vibrant role in this field, but since 2014, what we’ve seen is this slow decline of academia in the space in comparison to where industry’s really taking off. And that’s a concern.

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Navigant: US to remain largest national plug-in vehicle market over next 10 years; Tokyo to take metro market lead spot from LA

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Navigant Research forecasts that the global LD PEV market will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 24.6% while the global market for LD vehicles will grow at a CAGR of only 2.6% Japan is a distant second, with just under 30,000 sales, followed by the Netherlands (more than 23,000) and China (more than 17,000).

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ICCT study details differences in fiscal policies to support uptake of EVs across 11 major markets

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While the global sales of EVs have about doubled in each of the past two years—from about 45,000 units in 2011 to more than 200,000 in 2013—consumer uptake has been generally limited to less than 1% in nearly every major auto market, with the notable exceptions of Norway, the Netherlands and California.

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