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A Tale of Two Markets — BEVs Up 20% YoY & PHEVs Down 10% YoY in China

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BEVs represented 36% the total Chinese car market in October. We saw plugins score another million-plus sales in September (1.3 million plugins, in a 2.2-million-unit overall market, down 1% YoY), but growth has been slowing down, with October showing only a 7% increase over October 2025. Digging deeper into the … [continued]

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Op-Ed: I’m Watching From The Philippines, & Your Venti Latte Math Doesn’t Add Up

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When I started to write for CleanTechnica, I was on my own journey of decarbonization. Literally. I gave up my Nissan Cefiro, with its 6-cylinder VQ2 engine. I divorced my Nissan Terrano with its 2.7-liter diesel powerplant. There wasn’t a proper electric vehicle in 2017 when I started this journey, … [continued]

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Kia’s PV5 Wins the “2026 International Van of the Year”

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A debut and a win: Kia’s first fully electric van, the PV5, claims the industry’s most prestigious LCV award Unanimously chosen by 26 leading commercial vehicle journalists worldwide Asia’s first electric van and the first Korean model to win the International Van of the Year Recognized for its technological innovation, … [continued]

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