Credit to Author: José Pontes| Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2022 04:32:25 +0000
Despite declining growth rates, the European passenger plugin vehicle market is still growing significantly (+10% in March), especially considering the overall market continues to fall off a cliff, down 19% year over year (YoY) last month (marking its 9th consecutive month on the red). Approximately 250,000 plugin vehicles were registered in March, the second best […]
Credit to Author: Jo Borrás| Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2022 13:00:14 +0000
Why did a team from Mercedes drive across three countries on a 620-mile all electric road trip? “Range is the only thing people care about,” one German automotive executive (who shall remain nameless) told me at COTA, last year. “They don’t ask about anything else.” The Lucid Air will take you more than 500 miles […]
Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2022 15:55:45 +0000
The Mercedes EQE may be the closest competitor yet to the Tesla Model S.
Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2022 00:37:04 +0000
Following up on US auto sales reports for the 4th quarter of 2021 as well as the full year 2021 compared to 2020 and 2019, here is our report on US auto sales in the 1st quarter of 2021 compared to the 1st quarter of 2019 and the 1st quarter of 2020. To start with, […]
Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2022 05:00:57 +0000
It’s been a busy beginning of the year already, and we’ll have more to report on that shortly, but let’s first take a stroll back a few months to look at what happened in the US auto industry in the 4th quarter of 2021. To get started, looking at the overall auto market, it was […]
Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2022 11:10:00 +0000
US auto sales in 2019 were down 1.4% to 1.6% compared to 2018. That was before COVID-19 hit the United States and destroyed the US auto industry (among other things) for several months. So, when looking at 2021 US auto sales, I find it more interesting to compare to 2019 than 2020. Nonetheless, in this […]
Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2022 05:00:57 +0000
It’s been a busy beginning of the year already, and we’ll have more to report on that shortly, but let’s first take a stroll back a few months to look at what happened in the US auto industry in the 4th quarter of 2021. To get started, looking at the overall auto market, it was […]
Credit to Author: Jo Borrás| Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2022 17:55:24 +0000
While other carmakers talk about electric vans, Mercedes has delivered 25,000 of ’em!
Credit to Author: José Pontes| Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2022 17:10:01 +0000
Global plugin vehicle registrations were up 99% in February 2022 compared to February 2021. There were 541,000 registrations, representing 9.3% share (6.4% BEV share) of the overall auto market. That’s almost a doubling of plugin vehicle sales from a year ago, which means that the global automotive market is already entering the Electric Disruption Zone. […]
Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2022 21:35:17 +0000
The Mercedes Drive Pilot system comes with one unique feature.