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European car market logs best year for alternative fueled vehicles, lowest diesel share since 2001

Green Car Congress

The European car market remained stable during 2018, as 15.6 It was the best result since 2007, when the market peaked with 16.02 Strong results in Q2, where the market was up by 4.8%, and Q3, where the market was up by 1.1%, were enough to offset the large decline posted in Q4, where the market dropped by 7.5%

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Audi begins construction of first North American plant

Green Car Congress

r (Hungary); Bratislava (Slovakia); Changchun (China); Aurangabad (India); Martorell (Spain); and Jakarta (Indonesia). Audi said that the SUVs will primarily strengthen its position in the North American market. Starting in mid-2016, the plant will produce the successor generation of the successful Audi Q5 SUV.

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EEA: average CO2 emissions from new cars and new vans in Europe increased in 2018

Green Car Congress

Moreover, the market penetration of zero- and low-emission vehicles, including electric cars, remained slow in 2018. The market share of gasoline vehicles also increased, constituting 3.6% Higher sales in Poland (+46%), Croatia (+28%) and Hungary (+21%) were accompanied by lower sales in Italy (-6%) and Spain (-5%). In 2018, 1.66

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Europe’s Most Financed Luxury Car Brand

EV Info

Porsche dominates the luxury car finance industry in the neighbouring eastern European countries of Hungary, Ukraine and Romania. Mercedes-Benz is most popular in Russia, Czechia and Slovakia. Notably, Tesla is the luxury car brand dominating Scandinavia (Denmark & Finland) as well as the small country of Luxembourg.

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Half of EU Electric Car Chargers in Just Two Countries!

CleanTechnica EVs

I’ve followed the European electric car and EV charger market for a decade. We’ve hosted conferences on EV charging within Europe.

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How Russia Sent Ukraine Racing Into the “Energy Eurozone”

Cars That Think

Essentially ENTSO-E members took extraordinary defensive measures—and took on risks to their own systems—to make up for as-yet-uncompleted upgrades to Ukraine’s infrastructure, operating procedures and markets. Even if the risk is small, a massive outage in Ukraine could theoretically cascade into the European grid.

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