Sales of electric cars in Europe grew by forty percent in the first half of this year.

 

2018年上半年欧洲电动汽车销量增长40%。

 

The growth means that there are now more than a million electric cars on European roads - a landmark¹ that was hit in China over a year ago.

 

The USA still trails behind China and Europe when it comes to the adoption² of the new technology. Nevertheless, analysts³ expect that there will be a million electric cars on American roads by the end of 2018.

 

In China, manufacturers shifted 77 percent more electric vehicles so far this year than in the previous year.

 

Meanwhile, in Europe, this figure was 37 percent.

 

Perhaps the sales increases should come as no surprise – Chinese companies have invested equivalent of nearly 22 billion euros in electric car production in the last year.

 

To put this figure in context, European manufacturers invested 3.2 billion euros into EV production over the same period.

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