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ACEA: data show EU market for electric cars highly fragmented; need for inclusive measures

Green Car Congress

Many of the new EU member states with a low ECV market share merely offer an exemption from the annual circulation tax for electric vehicles. Five EU member states don’t offer any incentives at all: Croatia, Estonia, Lithuania, Malta and Poland.

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Yet another study shows plug-in hybrids aren’t as clean as we thought

Baua Electric

Gaps fell between 176% (Finland), up to 287% (Poland). An emissions gap also exists for petrol- and diesel-fueled vehicles, with each of them also emitting more than WLTP numbers would indicate – and therefore getting lower mileage, and having higher fuel costs, than consumers would expect by looking at the label.

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Why EVs Aren't a Climate Change Panacea

Cars That Think

Greenpeace , on the other hand, argues that sales of all diesel and petrol vehicles, including hybrids, must end by 2030 to meet such a target. In Poland and China, for example, an EV would need to be driven 78,700 miles to break-even. The San Diego backlash over a mileage tax may be just the beginning. For the U.S.