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Volvo Cars to triple electric car production capacity in Ghent after strong year of electrified car sales

Green Car Congress

Volvo Cars is tripling electric car manufacturing capacity at its plant in Ghent, Belgium as it prepares to meet fast growing demand for its Recharge line-up of chargeable cars. The plant already builds the XC40 Recharge, the company’s first fully electric car, as well as a plug-in hybrid version of the XC40.

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Tesla announces change of plans to build cheaper electric cars

Electrek

Tesla announced that it is changing its product plan to introduce cheaper electric cars to be built on its current production lines.

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NIO Rolls 300,000th Electric Car Off Production Line

Electric Cars Report

On December 12, 2022, the 300,000th electric car of NIO rolled off a production line at its Second Advanced Manufacturing Base. Since the production of its first smart EV in May 2018, NIO has been breaking records of production speed and dedicated to building up its production capacity.

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Volvo Cars global sales up 31% in May; fully electric cars up 196%

Green Car Congress

Volvo Cars reported global sales of 60,398 cars in May, up 31% compared with the same month last year. The company’s fully electric cars were the main contributor to the growth, rising 196% during the period to 10,826 units (). The share of fully electric cars stood at 18%.

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Fossil Fuel Fanatics Ramp Up Attacks On Electric Cars While Ignoring The Dangers Of Their Own Products

CleanTechnica EVs

The post Fossil Fuel Fanatics Ramp Up Attacks On Electric Cars While Ignoring The Dangers Of Their Own Products appeared first on CleanTechnica. Fossil fuel interests are perfectly willing to lie and distort information in order to protect their profits.

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Electric cars and trucks can slash Australia’s $60 billion fossil fuel import bill

The Driven EV News

Australians pay over $60 billion a year to import petroleum products, and tens of billions more for storing, distributing and selling them. Electric transport and sensible urban planning can reduce that. The post Electric cars and trucks can slash Australia’s $60 billion fossil fuel import bill appeared first on The Driven.

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BMW starts production of the i4 electric car

Electrek

BMW announced that it has started series production of the BMW i4 electric car today at its Munich factory. more… The post BMW starts production of the i4 electric car appeared first on Electrek.

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