Credit to Author: José Pontes| Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2022 02:50:08 +0000
After a surprisingly good January, February doubled last year’s result, with the Dutch plugin vehicle (PEV) market reaching 28% last month. That’s mostly thanks to pure electrics (16% of new vehicle sales), which surged 275%(!) year over year (YoY). In fact, that result allowed full electrics (BEVs) to surpass plugin hybrids (PHEVs) in the year-to-date […]
Credit to Author: José Pontes| Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2022 02:46:08 +0000
After a surprisingly good January, February doubled last year’s result, with the Dutch plugin vehicle (PEV) market reaching 28% last month. That’s mostly thanks to pure electrics (16% of new vehicle sales), which surged 275%(!) year over year (YoY). In fact, that result allowed full electrics (BEVs) to surpass plugin hybrids (PHEVs) in the year-to-date […]
Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2022 12:58:20 +0000
XPeng expands further in Europe — begins selling XPeng P5 in 4 European countries and opens first store in the Netherlands, second in Europe. For nearly a decade, I and others have been wondering how long it would be until top electric vehicle (EV) producers in China would start importing and selling their EVs in […]
Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2022 12:58:20 +0000
XPeng expands further in Europe and begins selling XPeng P5 in 4 European countries For nearly a decade, I and others have been wondering how long it would be until top electric vehicle (EV) producers in China would start importing and selling their EVs in Europe and North America. In fact, I asked the founder […]
Credit to Author: José Pontes| Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2022 04:50:30 +0000
Lynk & Co 01 PHEV (who?) wins January in reshuffled market After the BEV sales rush in the last days of 2021, one would imagine that January would bring a big hangover for the local plugin market. But turns out, it hasn’t, because it grew 62% year over year (YoY)! But the story is more […]
Credit to Author: Maarten Vinkhuyzen| Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2022 19:26:19 +0000
The Dutch electric car market is in decline. The incentives that are offered now are not so attractive anymore. People are delaying replacing the battery electric vehicles (BEV) they got a few years ago with lavish incentives until those incentives wear out since there is hardly any financial incentive to get a new BEV today. […]
Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2022 02:18:22 +0000
In this guest article, T&E President Arie Bleijenberg explains more about the end of Growth in Car Traffic & how governments overestimated projections for car use growth. Originally published on Transport & Environment. Last year the Dutch government published far lower projections for car growth than what it had predicted back in 2017. Its upper projection […]
Credit to Author: Maarten Vinkhuyzen| Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2020 05:50:38 +0000
The Dutch ruling party, libertarian-conservative free-market capitalist zealots, are not known for their environmental policies
Credit to Author: Maarten Vinkhuyzen| Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2020 04:50:48 +0000
It is a luxury problem every company likes to have — the customer base of Dutch charging provider Fastned grew by 30% or 30,000 drivers in Q4 2019. Luckily, the Fastned network was never sized to facilitate existing demand. It was built to create and service future demand
Credit to Author: Jose Pontes| Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2020 04:00:15 +0000
With a sales rush in the last days of 2019, one would imagine January would bring a big hangover for the plug-in vehicle market. But turns out, it hasn’t. Yes, the Dutch plug-in market was down 2% year over year (YoY), to 3,184 registrations, but because the overall market fell even more (-6% YoY), the plug-in vehicle (PEV) share (7.2%, 4.3% for fully electric vehicles alone) actually grew compared to 12 months ago (6.9% in January 2019). So … why is this happening