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Report: sales of hybrid and electric vehicles in China disappoint automakers

Green Car Congress

In addition, BYD said that it has only sold 54 electric vehicles E6 and 290 F3DM hybrids between January and October. sales manager of a 4S store of Dongfeng Honda said that consumers are not buying new energy vehicles because they don’t trust the new technology and they don’t want to pay extra in order to save petrol.

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New EV electric car calendar

EV Central

BYD e6 – mid-sized SUV confirmed for Australia, sort of… only 15 are coming here. Honda Prologue – first electric SUV from the Japanese brand is very much within the family. Honda electric SUV – Japanese brand is ramping up its EV efforts with the SUV e:concept giving strong clues to a future model.

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Will China win the electric car race? The Green Piece

Green Cars News

Last week the company announced that it would bring its five-seat E6 electric car in small numbers to the US next year. Though China is clearly way behind the US and Japan in terms of producing petrol powered cars, it hopes to get a jump start on the opposition by skipping this technology and focusing on electrics. Our verdict.

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