whatcar.co.uk - 12/4/2008
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03 December 2008 Electric car seller the Nice Car Company has gone into administration following the slump in the sales of electric cars. The company had been selling an all-electric version of the French-made Aixam Mega, and was planning to sell a new a two-seater and MPV imminently. The ...
motoring.reuters.co.uk - 12/4/2008
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motoring.reuters.co.uk —
powered by Verdict on Cars As sales plummet,
Nice electric car company goes under Electric car sales...
have more than halved this year. Just 156 were sold from January to October 2008, compared to 374 for the same period in 2007, down 58%. The figures ...
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treehugger.com - 12/3/2008
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treehugger.com —
I am sorry for continuing a rant here.
The heads of the auto companies are driving nine...
hours to Washington for their bailout pleas; I am sure many would rather see them crawl. I am not a cheerleader for General Motors and the Detroit auto ...
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Worst Sales Performance of Any Car: Toyota Prius
businessgreen.com - 12/3/2008
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businessgreen.com —
James Murray, BusinessGreen , Tuesday 2 December 2008
at 11:18:00 "I don't want to buy another internal...
combustion engine," says Mayor The first company that develops an electric powered family car will be able to count Boris Johnson as its ...
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Boris pledges his next car will be all electric
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Electric vehicle sales dive in the UK
Autoblog Green —
Filed under: EV/Plug-in, UK All car sales in the UK have tanked in recent months just as they have here in the US market. Perhaps more surprisingly, sales of electric cars - which had been doing relatively well, especially in London - took a nosedive. Aside from the general economic malaise, changes in the London congestion zone have had an impact. As cars that emit less than 120 g/km of CO2 have become exempt from the congestion charge, more buyers have opted for cars like the VW Polo BlueMotion and Smart ForTwo CDi. Also playing a ...
Car Crash: UK's Electric Vehicle Sales Plummet in 2008
Green Daily —
... . Just as you might expect, auto sales are slumping in the UK just as they are in the US, and for many of the same reasons. Unfortunately, the events of 2008 have been particularly hard on the UK electric car industry, leaving it on the brink of collapse. ...
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