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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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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Teslas = 77.7% of US Electric Vehicle Sales

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2019 04:59:06 +0000

The US electric vehicle market … is not the most interesting. Unfortunately, we have only one mass-market electric vehicle on the market, and there are very few models available across the nation. Actually, aside from Tesla’s offerings, I think only two fully electric models available at dealers practically anywhere are the Chevy Bolt and Nissan

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Hyundai Kona EV Wins The Netherlands In Slow Month — EV Sales Report

Credit to Author: Jose Pontes| Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2019 04:19:28 +0000

After a memorable month of September, the plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) markets in the Netherlands slowed down significantly, growing just 37% in September, with 2,776 registrations, translating into a PEV share of 8.1% in October. That keeps the 2019 PEV share at a record 10%

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Tesla = 75–85% of US Electric Vehicle Sales

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 01:03:49 +0000

We no longer publish monthly US electric vehicle sales reports, because few automakers publish their monthly electric vehicle sales, and several don’t even publish quarterly sales of their EVs. Nonetheless, I continue to track the numbers that are published and estimate sales for the other fully electric models

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Will South Africa Build Electric Vehicles?

Credit to Author: David Zarembka| Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2019 21:30:05 +0000

Like Germany is to Europe, South Africa is the manufacturing powerhouse of sub-Saharan Africa. In particular, it has 8 automobile assembly plants. The companies are BMW, Ford, Isuzu, Mercedes-Benz, Nissan, Renault, Toyota, and Volkswagen. In 2018, South Africa produced 610,854 vehicles

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Tesla Model 3 Is 2019’s Best Selling Vehicle In Dutch Lands

Credit to Author: Jose Pontes| Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2019 05:08:18 +0000

We start this month’s EV sales reports in the Netherlands. (Well, we already started there with another article, but here’s a second.) The Dutch plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) market grew a whopping 281% in September compared to the same month in 2018 (year over year, or YoY). The nation had 8,067 PEV registrations, the best month ever for plug-ins aside from previous fiscal-derived peaks in December 2013 (9,304 units), December 2015 (15,908), and December 2016 (11,132). So, all points to a record performance this coming December. How much, would you say? 16,000? 20,000? More

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Another Fun Louisiana National Drive Electric Week Event

Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2019 16:23:11 +0000

Louisiana hosted several National Drive Electric Week events, and I got to go to two of them, the Abita Springs one last week and the Gonzales one today. In Gonzales, Plugin Louisiana and Louisiana Clean Fuels teamed up with Tanger Outlet Mall to help bring awareness about electric vehicles and clean energy. I got to tag along with Karen Rudisil, owner of a Tesla Model

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