Electric car sales quadruple during 2014

Will Nichols
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Industry figures show almost 15,000 plug-in cars sold last year, while overall low carbon car sales rose 58 per cent

Sales of electric cars, hybrids and other alternatively-fuelled vehicles (AFVs) shot up 58 per cent over 2014, as drivers increasingly turned to cleaner vehicles. The surge in demand was led by the...

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