Electric vehicle conversion

Where is the trend for hybrid vehicles the strongest and how alive is it in Central and South Eastern Europe, especially Slovenia?

Turkey saw over a half-million car and light commercial vehicle sales this January to November, the Automotive Distributors' Association (ODD) said on Dec. 4.

€ 10 million will be invested in Bulgaria by the Chinese electric car maker Cenntro Automotive Corporation and Luxembourg-based SEVIC eMobility, SEVIC Director of Business Development Emil Yankov told SeeNews. The companies will build a plant for the production of electric cars in Trakia Economic Zone near Plovdiv. It is planned to employ between 250 and 300 employees to work there.

German authorities are giving automaker Daimler until mid-June to submit a plan for how it will fix diesel-powered vans that don't meet emissions requirements.

The latest Bloomberg report, New Energy Finance, says electric vehicle sales will skyrocket over the next two decades.

The way you buy and consume technology is changing, and it's evolving at a more accelerated rate than ever before. These advancements are having a tremendous effect on the transport industry as electric and semi-autonomous vehicles are being introduced and different methods of transport are being developed.

Germany's massive car industry is the biggest investor worldwide in electric vehicles, a study published on March 12 found, as it scrambles under increasing pressure to adopt low-emissions technology.

A Turkish consortium, which was launched to produce locally-made cars, has said that it is working on three electric vehicle models and has a 15-year investment plan.

A total of 199 hybrid cars were sold in Greece in 2017, up from 43 in 2016, new data show.

At the same time, sales of plug-in electric vehicles went up from 31 in 2016 to 161 in 2017.

This is an increase of 419 percent for hybrid cars and an almost 217 percent rise in plug-in electric car sales.

A draft bill recently submitted to parliament has unexpectedly proposed a motor vehicle tax (MVT) rise on electric vehicles in Turkey.