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Volvo Cars Q1 sales up 10% to 162,938 units; all-electric vehicles took 18% share

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The sales growth was mainly led by the company’s fully electric cars. Volvo Cars’ Recharge line-up of chargeable models, with a fully electric or plug-in hybrid powertrain, made up 41% of all Volvo cars sold globally (67,403 units) in Q1 2023. Sales of the all-electric cars were up 140% year-on-year.

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Volvo Car USA fully electric vehicle sales reach 7.2% of total in 2022

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The share of fully electric Volvo cars reached 7.2% The share of overall Recharge cars—those with pure electric and plug-in hybrid powertrains—reached 27.4% Fully electric cars accounted for 10% of sales and grew 50%, making it the best month ever for BEVs. compared with the year before. year-on-year.

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Tech: How do Hybrid & Plug-in Hybrid Batteries Recharge? Do I Need to Plug a Hybrid In?

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When the first gasoline-electric hybrids vehicles began arriving in 1999 and 2000, early adopters did their research and were quite knowledgeable about the then-new and revolutionary transportation mode. But the mass market was confused; these new cars had an additional battery to provide electricity to an electric motor.

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Volvo Cars sales up 12% in November y-o-y; fully electric account for 19.7% of total sales

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Overall underlying demand for the company’s cars continues to remain robust, especially for its Recharge range of pure electric and plug-in hybrid cars. Sales of Recharge units were up 44.2% The company’s line of Recharge models represented 42.2% The company’s line of Recharge models represented 42.2%

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ANSI publishes Roadmap Of Standards And Codes For Electric Vehicles At Scale; 37 standardization gaps

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The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) announced the publication of the Roadmap of Standards and Codes for Electric Vehicles at Scale developed by the Institute’s Electric Vehicles Standards Panel (EVSP). A “gap” means no published standard, code, regulation, policy, etc.

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Western Governors pledge to create electric vehicle charging network

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The governors of Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding to create a unified regional electric vehicle plan to allow electric vehicles to recharge and travel easily along the 5,000 miles of freeways in the western region. Earlier post.).

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GIREVE project to establish common framework for roaming services for recharging plug-in vehicles

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The Caisse des Dépôts investor group; Électricité Réseau Distribution France (ERDF), the manager of electricity distribution to 95% of the metropolitan area in France; PSA Peugeot-Citroën; and Renault have signed a memorandum of understanding on the creation of a common framework to develop roaming services for recharging plug-in vehicles in France.

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