electric vehicles sales Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Wed, 20 Apr 2016 16:30:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 The Netherlands to Ban Sales of Diesel and Petrol Vehicles by 2025 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/netherlands-ban-sales-diesel-petrol-vehicles-2025-20160420/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/netherlands-ban-sales-diesel-petrol-vehicles-2025-20160420/#comments Wed, 20 Apr 2016 05:04:55 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=59816 The Netherlands might become the first country in the world to ban all sales of diesel, petrol and even hybrid vehicles. The Netherlands is known for their green transport initiatives, which often seem quite unrealistic. Yet, many of them get realized against all odds, proving deniers wrong. Some successful examples include the SolaRoad, the currently […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/netherlands-ban-sales-diesel-petrol-vehicles-2025-20160420/feed/ 1 59816 Forecast: 3.8 Million EVs Sold by 2020 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/2020-electric-vehicles-sales-20130108/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/2020-electric-vehicles-sales-20130108/#respond Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:47:24 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=30931 Pike Research estimates that electric vehicle (EV) sales (both pure electric and hybrids) are to reach 3.8 million by 2020 due to increased affordability and increased number and efficiency of charging points. Thus, it is still early days yet for the electric vehicle. According to Pike research’s Dave Hurst in the report, electric vehicle sales […]

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