Europe superseded China as the global driver of electric car sales in 2020 for the first time in five years, as total EV sales jumped 43% despite the COVID-19 crisis hitting overall car sales, according to data from EV-volumes.com. Not registered? Receive daily email alerts, subscriber notes & personalize your experience. Register Now Sales of plug-in passenger car in Europe in 2020 rose 137% year on year to almost 1.4 million in a “disturbed” auto market that was down 20% year on year overall, EV-volumes said, citing preliminary data. In China, EV sales rose 12% last year to 1.34 million vehicles. “It was the combination of new attractive models, incentive boosts by green recovery funds, the 95g CO2 mandate, much-improved […]