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Two years in, BMW i3 is the best-selling EV in Germany and the 3rd top seller worldwide; 80% of buyers new to BMW

Green Car Congress

In Norway the BMW i3 has been the best-selling model across the entire BMW range in the current year. In Norway, the i3 accounts for an impressive one in five BMWs sold. In China, customers are now exempt from paying sales tax on the i3. Source for all market data: POLK / IHS per 3Q/2015). In the US, every sixth e-car is an i3.

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Garage Lessons: Charging in The Real World

Plugs and Cars

I participated in the Governor''s Office Conference Coast-to-Coast Workshop on E-Mobility in Sacramento sponsored by the governments of California and the Netherlands on Wednesday. In Norway tax policy has resulted in the the world''s quickest uptake of EVs. I don''t think so. Maybe some day, but not now.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Partnering with Alcoa, Duke Energy, Google.org, Johnson Controls Indiana startup plans to unveil vehicle May 2009 at EVS-24 in Norway; mass production in 2012. August 9, 2007 (Multiple reports on speech and press conference by GM Vice Chairman Bob Lutz) Lutz said his goal is for GM to develop a plug in hybrid on sale by 2010.

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We Need More Than Just Electric Vehicles

Cars That Think

Norway has the highest per capita number of EVs, which represented. Therefore, an EV operated in Shandong imposes a much bigger environmental burden than that same EV would in Yunnan or Norway. Governments have offered subsidies or tax rebates to make EVs more appealing, a policy which the U.S. The International Energy Agency.