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Local electric car sales exceeding industry expectations

New Zealand Motor Industry Association (MIA) chief executive David Crawford says that local electric vehicle sales “strongly exceeded expectations” in 2022, adding that they are “rapidly closing the gap on monthly sales of

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Tesla Model 3 overtakes Toyota Camry as Tesla dominates 2022 electric car sales – Car News

Tesla has overtaken Toyota, becoming the brand with Australia’s most popular sedan, as the Model 3 electric car outsold the veteran Camry for the first time in 2022. Though the mid-size car segment

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New Mazda rotary to be unveiled this week, with a spin on the idea

Fans of Mazda’s Wankel rotary engines will have to wait for any future announcement on a halo sports car, but the engine will return this week as a generator for the brand’s electric

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Australia’s best-selling hybrids and plug-in hybrids of 2022

Toyota continued to dominate hybrid-car sales in Australia last year – but a number of rivals are also in the race. Here are the best-selling hybrid and plug-in hybrid vehicles in 2022. View 6

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Tesla and BYD lead as EVs make up 3.1% of new car sales in 2022, Model 3 outsells Camry

Calendar 2022 was the biggest year for electric vehicle uptake in Australia. Newly released data from the Federated Chamber of Automotive Industries and its vFacts publication show EV sales at 3.1% of total

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VFACTS December 2022: Hybrid cars set new sales record in Australia

Hybrid cars outsold electric vehicles by more than two-to-one in Australia last year. With more than 315,000 hybrids delivered over the past 20 years, their emissions reductions are equivalent to putting 95,000 electric

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VFACTS December 2022: Tesla leads electric-car charge, ends Toyota Camry’s 28-year winning streak

Tesla sales almost doubled last year and accounted for almost two out of every three electric vehicles sold in Australia – as the Tesla Model 3 ended the Toyota Camry’s 28-year dominance of

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Electric car sales reach record high in UK despite supply chain disruption | Automotive industry

Sales of electric vehicles have reached record levels in the UK, although supply chain disruption drove total sales of new cars to their lowest level in 30 years. Just more than 1.6m new

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Tesla plunges 76m off a California cliff, all four occupants survive

Two adults and two young children somehow escaped serious injuries after their Tesla plunged off a cliff along California’s Pacific Coast Highway and crashed on a rocky beach some 76.3 metres below. The

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Older apartment prices could get hit by new EV parking rules for new builds

“This is going to create two streams in the apartment market,” he told The Australian Financial Review. “You’re going to see buildings which have this capability grow in value and those that haven’t

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