BMW Tweaks Battery Tech, Jaguar & Audi Tweak Range, Mercedes Delays EQC

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2020 18:23:46 +0000

BMW, Audi, and Jaguar are all touting improvements in the range of their electric SUVs, while Mercedes says it is holding the EQC back from the US market to meet demand in Europe.

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Plug-In Vehicles = 11% of Swedish Auto Market

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2020 07:16:39 +0000

Sweden probably isn’t one of the first countries that come to mind when talking about electric vehicle leaders, but plug-in vehicles have a higher market share there than in almost any other country in the world. In 2019, 11% of auto sales were sales of plug-in vehicles

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Volkswagen Group Aiming To Produce 3 Million Electric Vehicles In 2025 — How Might It Get There?

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2019 05:54:29 +0000

Volkswagen Group has been spending a lot of time these days focused on its electrification plans — or e-mobility, as they call it in Europe. Some take this as simply PR, but I think the sales targets are real and we know the company has launched an initial electric car factory and is investing tens of billions of euros into batteries and EV development

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From Electric Cars To Electric Airplanes, The End Of A Decade

Credit to Author: Nicolas Zart| Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2019 00:19:45 +0000

Lilium eVTOL Red Dot Award2019 is drawing to a close, so let’s take stock of a decade of green mobility progress that started with a handful of startups a decade ago

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Despite SUV Craze, Tesla Model 3 Dominates US Luxury Vehicle Market

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2019 00:10:03 +0000

If there’s anything Elon Musk loves, it’s bringing a gadget out of a sci-fi novel to life. In December 2014, he said Tesla was working on “a charger that automatically moves out from the wall & connects like a solid metal snake.” Shades of Doctor Octopus’s robot arms, and the human-hunting robotic snakes from the Terminator universe! Surely Elon knows better than to hook up an AI to this monstrosity

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BMW i3, Renault Zoe, Tesla Model 3 — Who Will Be Germany’s Best Selling EV In 2019?

Credit to Author: Jose Pontes| Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2019 04:08:51 +0000

Something clicked in the German plug-in vehicle market after the summer holidays. After two consecutive record months, November saw 10,985 units registered, only the second five-digit performance in Germany’s history, after the record 11,926 units of October. It seems Europe’s e-locomotive has finally been set in motion, which is a promising sign for

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Renault Zoe Still Rules France, But Plug-In Hybrids Shine In November — EV Sales Report

Credit to Author: Jose Pontes| Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2019 03:11:59 +0000

The French plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) market had 5,540 registrations in November, with fully electric vehicles (BEVs) dropping 10% year over year (YoY), to 3,201 units. However, plug-in hybrids (PHEVs) took the fast lane and were up 80%

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2012 Tesla Model S Crushes 2020 EV Entrants

Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2019 06:51:38 +0000

2012 Tesla model sThe 2012 Tesla Model S, despite being nearly 8 years old, is crushing the new 2019 and 2020 EV entrants on range and efficiency. In a tweet by our favorite Earl of FrunkPuppy, he shares a screenshot from the US government’s Fuel Economy website, which offers comparisons between vehicles on key metrics

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Tesla Scores 77% of US Electric Auto Sales in November — CleanTechnica Report

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2019 12:01:09 +0000

Some people wonder why we cover Tesla so much. I’m going to use this opportunity to quickly explain it. First of all, we are a cleantech news & analysis site. Our focus is cleantech and the reasons for it

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Tesla Model 3 Dwarfs The Competition In The Netherlands In November, & Is #1 Overall In 2019

Credit to Author: Jose Pontes| Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2019 02:10:34 +0000

The Dutch plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) market is back at year-end-rush mode, doubling sales in November to 7,205 registrations. That translates into a PEV share of 18% in November, and pulls the 2019 PEV share to a record 11%

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