Sales of electric vehicles surge in Europe, but it’s complicated
Brands have pushed electric vehicles more aggressively recently, holding back 2019 orders so they would count towards 2020 mandates
16 April 2020 - 19:01
As Covid-19 crunches car sales globally, a backlog of orders has helped electric vehicles maintain momentum in much of the world — better than cars and trucks fulled by petrol or diesel.
Even in March, as pandemic lockdowns swept the globe, sales of battery-powered vehicles, including plug-in hybrids, surged in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden and the UK, according to a new report from Bloomberg New Energy Finance...
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