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Corvette E-Ray’s Carbon Fiber Wheels Give Us A Peek At Future PHEV & BEV Corvettes

CleanTechnica EVs

While a BEV would have been preferable, GM couldn’t even be bothered to make it a plugin hybrid with real EV range. Here at CleanTechnica, we’re definitely disappointed in the Corvette E-Ray.

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Europe’s Present Is Our Future In Australia

CleanTechnica EVs

The sales statistics for plugin and electrified vehicles in Europe for September have arrived. A megatrend appears to be: an overall reduction in new car sales. Car sales appear to have peaked in 2017 at approximately 100 million vehicles per year. The numbers have been going down ever since.

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The Electric Future Of Off-Roading Looks Bright (Video)

CleanTechnica EVs

While the 4xe isn’t a full EV (it’s a plugin hybrid), it does give 20-30 miles of EV range in our testing. Last week, Jeep lent us a Wrangler 4xe, in top Rubicon trim. When we took the vehicle out on rough trails under nothing but electric power, we realized pretty quickly that we were […].

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Drive Electric Submission Land Transport (Clean Car) Amendment Bill

Drive Electric

Transport and Infrastructure Committee. RE: Drive Electric Submission Land Transport (Clean Car) Amendment Bill. Drive Electric supports the Land Transport (Clean Vehicles) Amendment Bill (‘the Bill’) and encourages New Zealand to be ambitious. Support for the Land Transport (Clean Vehicles) Amendment Bill . Wellington.

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Auto sales drop to new low in Norway

Push EVs

Norway saw plugin electric vehicles take 76.3% January’s combined plugin result of 76.3% plugin hybrids (PHEVs). The new policies affect both plugins and non-plugins, although the latter are hit much harder. share of the auto market in January, down from 90.5% year on year. comprised 66.5% a year ago.

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China March 2021

EV Sales

Plugins are a hot item in China, having scored a near-record 211,000 units last month, jumping 244% regarding the same month last year, making it the second best month ever, only behind last December. Last month plugin share reached the two-digits mark for the first time ever, by hitting 11% (9.2% 10,000 units-plus in April? #5

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The controversy in fast charging for electric vehicles (PlugIn 2010)

National Green Transportation

. At PlugIn 2010 the agenda included a benign sounding panel session entitled "The Near Future of Charging." Electric vehicle charging is rife with geeky details about battery management systems, charge rates, communication

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