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Volvo Cars global sales grew 30.2% in January; PHEVs and EVs account for 23% of all sales globally, 41% in Europe

Green Car Congress

Demand for Volvo Cars’ SUV line-up remained strong and represented 71% of overall volumes, while the popularity of its Recharge line-up of chargeable cars—plug-in hybrids and battery-electric vehicles—continued to grow. The company’s award-winning SUV line-up, led by the XC90, drove the strong sales increase.

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Volvo Cars Opens Order Books for New, Pure Electric C40 Recharge

EV Obssesion

Volvo Cars has officially opened order books for the C40 Recharge, the company’s latest fully electric model. A landmark car for the company’s recently announced new commercial strategy, the C40 Recharge is available online via volvocars.com in markets across Europe* as of this week.

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Hitachi, Mitsubishi Motors and ENGIE testing plug-in vehicles as renewable energy storage for office buildings

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Mitsubishi Motors and ENGIE are partnered in a project to explore the potential for electric vehicles to act as a means of energy storage for an office building. For this demonstration, the consortium linked Hitachi’s vehicle-to-everything (V2X) charger to ENGIE’s office building in Zaandam, The Netherlands.

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Are Teslas and BYDs expensive in Australia? Not if you do the math | Opinion

EV Central

Jonathan Williams, head of marketing at Polestar, gave a powerful eye roll when he was asked, no doubt for the zillionth time, how people could be convinced to shell out so much money for electric vehicles. Infrastructure is infinitely easier in countries like the Netherlands, thanks to population density. Balmo said. “A

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Where Plug-In Hybrid Conversions (mostly Priuses) Are

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