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Shipments of Electrified Vehicles Leap 48% in China

Wholesales of plug-in hybrid and all-electric vehicles in China zoomed 48% to 84,000 units in July, according to the China Assn. of Automobile Manufacturers.
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Wholesales of plug-in hybrid and all-electric vehicles in China zoomed 48% to 84,000 units in July, according to the China Assn. of Automobile Manufacturers.

CAAM says wholesales of such vehicles totaled nearly 496,000 units through the first seven months of 2018. The trade group has predicted that full-year volume will grow 29% to more than 1 million units this year.

Deliveries to dealers of plug-in cars more than doubled to about 24,000 units last month. Shipments of pure-electric vehicles climbed 34% to some 60,000 cars.

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