Plug-in electric vehicles in Germany plug-in electric cars have been registered in Germany since 2010. The country is the largest passenger car market in Europe, however, , ranked as the eighth largest plug-in market in the world and the fifth largest in Europe. About 80% of the new plug-in cars registered in the country through 30 September 2016 were registered since January 2014, with 13,049 units registered in 2014, 23,464 registered in 2015, and 17,074 during the first nine months of 2016. The official German definition of electric vehicles changed at the beginning of 2013, before that, official statistics only registered all-electric vehicles because plug-in
Smithfield Poultry Market Smithfield Poultry Market Smithfield Poultry Market was constructed in 1961–1963 to replace a Victorian market building in Smithfield, London, which was destroyed by fire in 1958. Its roof is claimed to be the largest concrete shell structure ever built, and the largest clear spanning dome roof in Europe. The old poultry market was built under the provisions of the Metropolitan Meat and Poultry Market Act 1860 at the western end of Smithfield Market, designed by Sir Horace Jones in a similar style to the other market buildings. It opened in 1875 to the east of Farringdon Road but was destroyed