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Feature: Top 6 Reasons Why an EV Is the Right Choice

Clean Fleet Report

In 2019, the sales of electric vehicles totaled 1.1 This figure represents a 46 peercent increase compared to sales made in 2018. One of the reasons behind the drastic increase in sales was the more affordable price range of the Tesla Model 3, a best-seller in the U.S., Electric cars are a current trend. Europe and China.

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Exploring the adoption of EVs in the US, Europe and China; charging scenarios and infrastructure

Green Car Congress

sales but well below the run-rate needed to reach the 2015 target. percent of total car sales. The automobile industry has said that without additional government subsidies they can only sell 600,000 electric cars by 2020 at best. Between 2009 and 2011, Chinese buyers purchased 13,000 EVs and PHEVs—more than U.S.

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Are Rising EV Inventories Proof Nobody Wants Them?

The Truth About Cars

Despite elevated fuel prices, aggressive marketing, and most companies vowing to transition toward building electrified automobiles exclusively, America has an EV supply of more than 100 days on dealer lots. However, government incentives (EV tax credits) have made them more attractive in the general sense.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

GM has announced plans for public sales in 2010, and almost every carmaker now says it will sell PHEVs or highway-speed battery electric vehicles (BEVs) sometime after 2010. Committed to sales of 10,000 or more vehicles in late 2010, with increasing production in 2011. Expected deposits in 2009 and first sales in CA in 2010.

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Trump promises 100% tariff on Mexico-built Chinese cars—EV or not

Baua Electric

market sale—effectively double the previous tariffs he had seeked to apply. In a Saturday campaign speech in Dayton, Ohio, Trump said that over a period of 30 years Mexico has taken away 34% of the automobile manufacturing business in the U.S. automobile industry as a whole.”

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