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Plug-in electric car sales in Canada, July 2017: Golf season

The Volkswagen e-Golf launched in Canada in late June, tallying 39 sales before the month’s end, and followed that with 84 units in its first full month of availability.

Aided by the e-Golf, the Toyota Prius Prime and the soon-to-arrive second-generation Nissan Leaf, plug-in electric vehicles may push above 1 percent of the market for Canadian new vehicles—even before the Tesla Model 3’s Canadian debut.

While the Chevy Volt won its 16th straight sales title in Canada during July, its sales of 231 were down about one-third, both month-over-month and year-over-year.
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Plug-in electric car sales in Canada, July 2017: Golf season

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Polestar plots 600bhp coupe for inaugural model

Volvo’s relaunched Polestar division is considering at least one, and possibly two, bespoke performance models with their own bodystyles.

One of these vehicles is understood to be a coupé featuring a high carbonfibre content and a powertrain with around 600bhp. The nature of the second model is unknown.

Volvo relaunched Polestar as a standalone brand last week and confirmed none of its models will wear the Volvo badge. The coupé is tipped to be revealed at the Frankfurt motor show in September.
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Polestar plots 600bhp coupe for inaugural model | Autocar

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Tesla Patents ‘Pyrotechnic’ Battery Safety Device

When you’re talking about lithium-ion batteries, the word “pyrotechnic” is not usually considered a good thing. But two new patents filing by Tesla shows that it’s not always a scary thing to have such an explosive term connected to your power source. The wording in the filings is, as always, a bit complicated but the takeaway points from patent #20170229266 and #20170229268(they share similar wording), is that in the event of a crash, the high-voltage battery in an electric vehicle needs to be neutered so that it’s safe for...
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