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PHEVs and oil demand, Porsche charging, point-of-sale tax credit: Today’s Car News

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Porsche adds thousands of chargers to its app. The point-of-sale EV tax credit is very popular. With the release of its annual EV sales outlook, Bloomberg New Energy Finance suggests that plug-in hybrids are a wild card for oil demand. And are plug-in hybrids potentially adding to future oil demand?

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California passes 1M mark for cumulative sales of electric vehicles: BEVs, PHEVs and FCEVs

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of total California auto sales in 2021. The CEC updates its Zero Emission Vehicles (ZEV) sales figures quarterly by analyzing DMV data. Specifically, cumulative sales through the end of 2021 were: 663,014 BEV (62.9%). 379,125 PHEV (36% ). For sales in 2021 only, the shares were: 183,933 BEV (73.5%). California Gov.

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Porsche Panamera PHEV, VW ID.7 wagon, Volvo rebuffs Recharge: Today’s Car News

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Porsche adds more electric miles to its Panamera plug-in hybrid. And no, EV sales aren’t tanking. VW reveals a stylish electric wagon. Volvo shifts to the newer naming strategy for all its vehicles that plug in. This and more, here at Green Car Reports.

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Porsche has sold more than 1,500 Panamera E-hybrid PHEVs this year; 9% of Panamera sales

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Porsche said it has delivered more than 1,500 Panamera E-Hybrid plug-in hybrids ( earlier post ) to customers worldwide from January to August 2014. In total, Porsche sold more than 120,000 new vehicles worldwide from January to August 2014, an increase of 12% in comparison to the same period last year. of all Porsche vehicles sold.

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Taycan review, Equinox EV deal, R1T top safety, 70-mile PHEVs: The Week in Reverse

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Is CEO Elon Musk costing Tesla sales? In a first drive of the 2025 Porsche Taycan, we found that with improvements to. Which electric truck detailed this week got a lower price and more range than originally announced?

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Porsche Casts Doubt Upon Combustion Ban Timeline

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.& With this in mind, Porsche’s CFO was recently quoted as saying European combustion bans will probably need to be delayed and there’s good reason to believe him.& & As things currently stand, the European Union has plotted banning the sale of new combustion-engine cars by 2030. Image: Porsche] Become a& TTAC insider.

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Volkswagen Group doubles deliveries of battery-electric vehicles in Q3 to 122,100

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There also continued to be strong demand for vehicles with a plug-in hybrid drive (PHEVs). A total of 246,000 PHEVs were delivered in the first nine months, more than twice as many as in the prior-year period (+133%). —Christian Dahlheim, Head of Group Sales. Porsche Taycan (incl. model family. 4 72,700 units.