Credit to Author: Jose Pontes| Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2019 04:00:10 +0000
The European passenger plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) market landed some 55,000 registrations in November (+44%), with the Dutch market and plug-in hybrids (+80% year over year, or YoY) pulling the market up the most, while fully electric vehicles (BEVs) were waiting for the 2020 flood (+23%, their lowest growth rate since June 2018)
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
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%
Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2019 05:44:16 +0000
Mercedes has announced they it will delay the US launch of its first electric vehicle, the EQC, which starts at $68,895. Those who call Tesla a “vaporware” company should take note. Mercedes was expected to bring the EQC to its US dealerships in the first quarter of 2020, but it looks like we will have to wait another whole year for one of those “Tesla killers.” The reason for the wait? Mercedes says demand is too high in Europe for the company to bring it to the
Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2019 05:01:49 +0000
The Tesla Model 3 continues to dominate the US premium-class car market. In fact, it has dominated this market to such an extent that it has more sales in 2019 than all of BMW’s small & midsize models combined, all of Mercedes-Benz’s small & midsized models combined, all of Audi’s small & midsized models combined, all of Lexus’s small & midsized models combined, etc
Credit to Author: Cynthia Shahan| Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2019 02:28:03 +0000
Mercedes-Benz’s Dusseldorf plant has celebrated the start of production of the fully electric eSprinter and ushered in a new era in Dusseldorf
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%
Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2019 04:50:05 +0000
Norway gets most of the glory for electric vehicle sales leadership, or China does for the sheer volume of sales there (approximately half of the global market), but there are a few other country markets with notable electric vehicle market share (if not volume) that are fun to track and interesting to compare to Norway. One of those markets is Sweden, which very quietly sits near the top of EV market share rankings
Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2019 23:08:38 +0000
Audi and Daimler are planning to lay off almost 20,000 workers over the next several years. The savings will be used to fund the transition to electric cars.
Credit to Author: Jose Pontes| Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2019 04:58:24 +0000
The European passenger plug-in vehicle (PEV) market recorded some 48,000 registrations in October (+46%), and this time it was the plug-in hybrids (+75% growth year over year, or YoY) that pulled the PEV market up. Fully electric vehicles (BEVs) remained at cruising speed (+26%), leading to a nearly even (51% BEVs / 49% PHEVs, vs. 65% / 35% YTD) breakdown between both technologies in October