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Germany December 2020

EV Sales

Open the Plugin Gates! In a completely disrupted market, while diesel (-31% YoY) and petrol (-20%) were down in December, all electrified categories were shooting up, with HEVs up 133% YoY, while PHEVs jumped six-fold(!), Expect this rule to happen in more countries with high plugin shares. its sales YoY. in Germany.

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France February 2021

EV Sales

Regarding the plugin share, last month it reached 13% (6.3% Regarding the plugin share, last month it reached 13% (6.3% (And Peugeot 208 EV beats both of them.) Still, the French market is known to be BEV-friendly, so fully electric models will likely recover as the year advances. BEV), keeping the YTD share at 12% (5.8%

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

USA Today ) 10/25/06 DaimlerChrysler is downright reluctant, even though it has built four test models, commercial-size vans that run on gasoline and electricity. 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. Reuters ).

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VIDEO: Driving a Tesla-powered Smart

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Reply ↓ ↑ report 8 Roger Smith 3:45PM (4/25/2009) Why do they even sell the Gas ver of the car in the states the Diesel ver just makes more sense it gets almost twice the mileage of the petrol ver. o well I guess they think all yanks hate diesels. I really would love to get a 120D coupe BMW u cant beat 0-60 of 7.5 and 49 mpg.

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