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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

Green Car Congress

For this demonstration, the consortium linked Hitachi’s vehicle-to-everything (V2X) charger to ENGIE’s office building in Zaandam, The Netherlands. Hitachi’s V2X Charger is the first recharger that not only recharges an electric car but can also discharge the energy back into the building/grid providing different flexibilities including kW,

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Tesla celebrates 10,000 Superchargers in Europe

Teslarati

Tesla has more than 35,000 Superchargers worldwide, offering a recharge of up to 200 miles for around 15 minutes. Tesla Model Y leads Europe’s D-SUV segment in 1H22. Tesla recently announced that it has 10,000 Superchargers serving owners in Europe. The Supercharger Network contributes significantly to Tesla’s goals.

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

EV Central

Infrastructure is infinitely easier in countries like the Netherlands, thanks to population density. Range anxiety is also about will my car be available when I need it, what if I get home and my car is almost flat, but then before I can recharge it, I need a car, what will I do if it’s not ready?” Balmo said. “A

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Where Plug-In Hybrid Conversions (mostly Priuses) Are

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

EcoFys by Amberjac/EnergyCS, March 2007 (Maastrich, Netherlands), contact simon@amberjac-projects.co.uk SP Innovation by Amberjac/EnergyCS, May 2007 (Amsterdam, Netherlands), contact simon@amberjac-projects.co.uk Austin Energy by Hymotion, March 2007 Same as above (2 vehicles), contact mark.kapner@austinenergy.com. Jim Tech Ltd.

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