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wp:Plug-in electric vehicles in Russia

(my bold)

As of July 2022, there were around 18,700 electric vehicles in Russia, equivalent to 0.04% of all cars in the country.[1] As of 2021, around 0.13% of new cars sold in Russia were electric.[2] As of July 2024 there were around 40,000 PHEVs in Russia.[3]

wp:Electric car use by country#Statistics

According to this, Canadians bought 171 000 in 2023—over 4x as many.

Russia is wrecking great environmental harm in Ukraine, and IIRC, they even bombed Ukrainian solar farms.

Fuck Russia.

FWIW,

wp:ZENN

ZENN (Zero Emission, No Noise) is a two-seat battery electric vehicle that was produced by the ZENN Motor Company of Canada from 2006 to 2010, designed to qualify as a neighborhood electric vehicle (NEV). It had a range of up to 40 mi (64 km) and was speed-limited to 25 mph (40 km/h).

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Production of the ZENN LSV ceased in March 2010, and service support and provision of parts ended on June 30, 2013.[2]

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Although the company was headquartered in Toronto and manufactured in Saint-Jérôme, north of Montreal, the vehicle was first introduced in the United States. The regulatory regime in Canada was less hospitable. Federal regulations set up by Transport Canada to approve low-speed vehicles (LSVs) for public road use excluded the ZENN and other NEVs from Canadian roads.

Why not non-lithium batteries?

Apparently wp:nickel–iron batteries are safer and less harmful to the environment.