Sentences with phrase «new electric cars account»

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Much of this progress comes from the world's two biggest car markets — the United States and China — which accounted for more than half of all new electric car registrations around the world in 2015, according to the analysis by the World Energy Investment 2016 report.

Last year electric cars accounted for just 0.14 percent of new cars sold in 2011, due largely to limited production but also to low consumer demand.

Yet 12 years later, Americans are still buying gas guzzling trucks and SUVs, while hybrid and electric vehicles account for just 3 % of new car sales.

NYTimes (2/14/13) reports: «Elon Musk, the chief executive of Tesla Motors, has now responded in detail to the account of my test drive of his Model S electric car, using the company's new East Coast Superchargers, that was published in The Times on Feb. 10.