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BMW delivers its one-millionth fully electric vehicle

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BMW delivered its one-millionth fully electric vehicle (EV) in the first quarter of this year, celebrating another milestone in its electrified journey. The legacy automaker promised to continue ramping up its electric vehicle lineup in 2024 despite “a volatile market.” BEV growth for the company.

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Argonne report on characteristics of light-duty plug-in electric vehicles in US

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A new report from a team at Argonne National Laboratory examines the changing characteristics for light-duty plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) from 2010-2021, evaluating range, energy efficiency, costs, and performance. terawatt-hours of electricity to drive 19.1 More than 2.1 Annual sales of PEVs in the US by 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.

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Mercedes-Benz do Brasil presents fully electric bus chassis eO500U

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Mercedes-Benz do Brasil has presented the fully electric eO500U bus chassis. The fully electric bus chassis has a range of up to 250 kilometers. The fully electric eO500U bus chassis is part of our global development strategy for electromobility. meters and offers space for up to 86 passengers.

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Volvo Cars reports April sales, 48 percent share of plug-in vehicles

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The sales increase was primarily driven by a strong performance in Europe as well as the company’s fully electric small SUV, the EX30.

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Deliveries of fully-electric BMW Group vehicles more than doubled again

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The BMW Group delivered a total of 88,289 fully-electric BMW and MINI vehicles to customers in the second quarter of 2023 – and once again succeeded in more than doubling its BEV sales from the same period of last year (+117.5%).

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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. of the sales (24,954 units) last month, with fully electric vehicles accounting for 19.7% (11,644 units) of total sales. compared with the same month last year.