News Digest Item
28 Apr 2017

“Record growth for e-cars in the first quarter”

ZSW Baden-Württemberg

The first quarter of 2017 has seen a new record for e-car registrations in Germany, the scientific foundation Centre for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research Baden-Wuerttemberg (ZSW) said in a press release. A total of 11,624 electric vehicles was registered between January and April this year – “more than ever before in one quarter”, the ZSW said. Of these, 5,060 were purely electric and 5,264 hybrid models, the foundation explained.

Find the press release in German here.

For more information, see the CLEW dossier The Energiewende and German carmakers.

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