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Volvo backtracks on its 100% EV pledge: Here’s what the new plan looks like

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Volvo was one of the first automakers to set a 100% EV sales goal by 2030. The new plans call for 90 to 100% of global sales to be electrified, including EVs and plug-in hybrids (PHEVs). By 2025, Volvo expects 50 to 60% of sales to be electrified. Volvo EX90 (Source: Volvo) Volvo also adjusted its CO2 reduction goal.

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Audi targeting more PHEVs beginning with Q3 and a cheaper plug-in version of its mid-size Q5 SUV

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Already available in Europe in both wagon and Sportback body-style, the electrified take on the small Audi SUV blends a 180kW system output with an all-electric range of around 51km on the WLTP test cycle and a claimed average fuel use as low as 1.4L/100km. Audi EV fightback! If I had my wish, I would like to position it strongly.

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EV sales in Norway explode ahead of policy changes

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BEVs saw pull-forward sales, with volume around 2.5x Petrol vehicles also saw a relative sales surge ahead of increased emissions taxes. The reason for the high volume of these two powertrains was pull-forward sales, ahead of looming tax changes in January 2023. the Mercedes EQC), the VAT amounts to 50,000 NOK (€4,700).

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France December 2020

EV Sales

Looking at last month Best Sellers, if the winner was the usual Renault Zoe, below it, there was a surprise, with the Peugeot models taking the month off, as the French brand had already complied with the EU's 2020 CO2 rules, the 208 EV runner-up spot was up for grabs, and the taker of it was the VW ID.3, Mmmm.discuss.

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Germany December 2020

EV Sales

, with the end of 2020 becoming a stampede into electrified vehicles , we have to the point where, despite tanking Fossil Fuel sales, electrified sales allowed the overall market to actually grow 10% YoY in December! its sales YoY. This highlights another great month for Volkswagen, which placed 5 models (ID.3,

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Europe December 2020

EV Sales

4 coming literally out of nowhere into #11, expect these two EVs to become familiar faces here, with the Italian set to win the City Car category in 2021, while the German will do its best to beat the Tesla Model Y in the SUV category. Looking at December Top 5 Models: #1 Volkswagen ID.3 Not Bad for a Year Zero.

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EVs market share continues to grow in Norway

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Overall auto sales recovered to close to seasonal norms in February, from the historic low of January. That low came as a hangover effect of new tax policies active from January 1st, which had pulled-forward a large number of auto sales into November and December. million tons of CO2 in climate damage ! tons of CO2 per year.

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