Electrified Vehicles to Double Market Share by 2020, Survey
According to a recent PricewaterhouseCoopers [PwC] poll, electrified vehicles will double market share by 2020. This is fairly impressive, considering that hybrid electric vehicle technology has only just hit it’s sweet-sixteen and only broke 3% market share last year. Clearly, the development of electrified vehicles is accelerating, but to double market share, from 3% to [...]
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