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April 2023 – Plug-in car market share continues to grow in Norway

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All other powertrains lost volume YoY, with petrol-only vehicles at their 2nd lowest volume of the modern era (just 112 units), and 3rd lowest share ever, just 1.25% of the auto market. PHEVs, with their middling emissions ratings, are taxed somewhere in between. Looking at unit volumes, against the background of a 7.7%

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Honda to increase green car output

Green Cars News

Demand is so high for green cars after government incentives were introduced in Japan, that the Honda Motor Company, the country’s number two car manufacturer, has said it will start partial weekend shifts at two factories in a bid to push low emission vehicles off the production line.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

They will buy a car and rent or lease the battery and the cost of leasing the battery will be the same as, or less than, the cost theyre paying today for petrol. But I dont think that would contribute to the global environment, to reduce [global warming gas] emissions." ( Wall Street Journal ). By partnering with these two industries.

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