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Article: Sales slump as electric cars lose their appeal.(Classified)
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- Cape Argus (South Africa)
- Article date:
- December 16, 2008
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By MOTORING STAFF
Electric car sales have more than halved in Britain this year and it |is blamed not on international economic woes, but on progress made with green issues in the motor industry.
Figures obtained by CleanGreenCars reveal just 156 were sold from January to October this year, compared to 374 for the same period last year.
News of the 58% drop came as one of London's two electric car distributors, Nice Car Company, was plunged into administration.
Set up in 2006, the company had been selling an all-electric version of the French-made Aixam Mega.
It had also planned to bring a range of new models, including a ...