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Minerals used in electric cars: How much does the US import and from where?

Green Car Congress

This post focuses on minerals used uniquely in the manufacture of electric cars. The table below lists the weight (in kg) of the minerals used in a typical electric car and a typical conventional car. Electric cars. Conventional cars. Canada, Norway, Finland, Russia. Rare earths.

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Volkswagen Group Is #1 BEV Seller In Sweden, Dominates BEV Market In Denmark & Finland — Charts!

CleanTechnica EVs

Following up on our quarterly UK electric vehicle sales report and Norway electric vehicle sales report, as well as earlier monthly sales reports for Europe overall (see here, here, here, and here), the Netherlands, Italy, Germany, France, and China, it’s time to jump into a few more Nordic markets.

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Half of EU Electric Car Chargers in Just Two Countries!

CleanTechnica EVs

I’ve followed the European electric car and EV charger market for a decade. Nonetheless, I was shocked to see the figure that just came out from an EU EV charging analysis conducted by the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA) — “half of all charging points for electric […].

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Neste testing renewable gasoline in Sweden for possible commercialization internationally

Green Car Congress

The final phase will complete commercial tests of the fuel, thereby enabling significant reductions of greenhouse gas emissions from gasoline and hybrid cars. There are also ambitious national targets in Sweden and Finland, for example, including separate emissions reduction mandates for the gasoline pool.

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Tesla captures top spot as Norway’s best-selling carmaker in 2021

Teslarati

Tesla has captured the top spot as Norway’s best-selling car company in 2021, capturing 11.6% of the country’s market share, led by the Model 3 all-electric sedan. Electric vehicles are Norwegians preferred mode of transportation, at least that is what the data suggests. Norway has a population of 5.4

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10 European Countries: Volkswagen ID.4 & ID.3 Top EV Sales List In April, Tesla Model 3 & VW ID.4 In January–April

CleanTechnica EVs

April sales figures are in for electric vehicle models in 10 European countries — Norway, the Netherlands, Spain, France, Germany, Switzerland, Finland, Ireland, Sweden, Denmark. The site EU-EVs.com have pulled the figures together, and I’ve created some charts of the April and January–April figures for this article.

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Tesla helps catapult EV sales past diesel in Europe for first time ever

Teslarati

For the first time in the history of the European automotive market, electric vehicles outsold conventional diesel engine vehicles, according to new data from the European Electric Car Report. For two years, data has shown that Europe has slowly but surely started to adopt EVs as their preferred mode of transportation.

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