EV sales smash monthly record

摘要

Over 40,000 plug-in electric vehicles were sold in Europe inrnMarch, a new monthly record, as sales climbed 41% year onrnyear, according to monitoring website EV Sales.rnThe previous monthly record was in December 2015,rnwhen 34,000 units were sold.rnEVs sales accounted for 2.2% of all European car salesrnin March, lifting the year-to-date figure to 2%.rnThe surge was in part because of the first full month ofrndeliveries of the new Nissan Leaf. This coincided with a bigrnsales push for Renault’s Zoe model, EV Sales said.