Renault Zoe & Tesla Model 3 Pull France To Record Heights — 2019 EV Sales Report

Credit to Author: Jose Pontes| Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2020 01:57:01 +0000

The French plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) market registered a record 7,250 units in December, +28% year over year (YoY), a new all time record. That was thanks to leader Renault Zoe (2,097 units, a new year best), which seems to be past the worse of the production ramp up, and the Tesla Model 3, which moved 1,250 units, its best result ever in France. Additionally, plug-in hybrid (PHEV) sales more than doubled YoY, helping to set the record score

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Tesla Gobbled Up 78% Of US Electric Vehicle Sales In 2019*

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2020 00:00:44 +0000

While the Tesla Model 3 was the 9th best selling car in the country and had more than 150,000 sales in the USA, the next best selling non-Tesla on the market was the Chevy Bolt with 16,418 sales, followed by the Nissan LEAF with 12,365 sales

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Italy’s Tiny EV Market Doubles Again — Over 10,000 Sales In 2019

Credit to Author: Carlo Ombello| Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 02:25:35 +0000

It’s taken a long time, but Italy’s electric car market is finally starting to take off. Official figures released by UNRAE (the association of foreign carmakers in Italy) confirm 10,566 battery electric cars were sold in the Bel Paese in the 12 months of 2019, doubling 2018 sales and consolidating a trend of exponential growth started two years ago. But why should we care, when a much smaller car market such as Netherlands saw over 12,000 Tesla Model 3s being sold in the single month of December

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Kenya Meets Renewable Energy Generation Target, Should Now Shift Focus To Accelerating EV Adoption To Soak Up Excess Electricity

Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2020 18:01:01 +0000

Image Caption: One of Nopia’s Nissan Leafs charging at the Hub Mall, Karen, Nairobi: Picture by Remeredzai KuhudzaiKenya’s installed generation capacity is sitting at over 2,700 MW, which now exceeds the current peak demand of around 1,900 MW. At night during the off-peak periods, this demand goes down even further, to about 1000 MW. So where can all this excess and very clean nighttime electricity go

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Iceland Reaches 25% EV Market Share! When Will The World Follow?

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 06:41:26 +0000

Iceland made it clear that winning the silver medal was a piece of cake for the island nation, as it logged a massive 25% EV market share in

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Danish EV Sales 2019 — Finally Back On Track After 5 Years Of Standing Still!

Credit to Author: Jesper Berggreen| Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 03:00:14 +0000

The 2019 trend that led to record sales of plug-in vehicles is most certainly not going away any time soon: Denmark is jumping on the electric wagon, for real this time

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100% Electric Vehicles Collected 42% of Norway’s Vehicle Sales in 2019

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2020 16:04:11 +0000

In 2019, 56% of Norway’s vehicle sales were sales of plug-in vehicles. Fully electric vehicles (BEVs) alone collected 42% of the market, according to EV Volumes

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Tesla Model 3 Shatters All Records in Historic Month & Year in the Netherlands

Credit to Author: Jose Pontes| Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2020 03:50:32 +0000

Led by the Tesla Model 3, December had an amazing 22,983 plug-in registrations, a three-fold increase compared to the same month last year, finally beating one of the oldest records in modern EV history, the 15,879 units sold in the Netherlands in December

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Plug-In Vehicle Sales Up To 3.1% In UK, 6.3% In December — But Look Around The Corner

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2020 04:13:11 +0000

The United Kingdom (not so united these days, but that’s another story) is becoming a hot electric vehicle market, but it gets very little attention in the EV world. I’m going to postulate that’s because people drive on the wrong side of the road there. (Just sayin’.)

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The Tech Trends That Created Tesla Model 3 Aren’t Over — Disruption Around The Corner

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2020 07:12:49 +0000

Human brains are funny. We have a very hard time seeing past this moment. Even when we plan for things, it’s hard to genuinely put our minds in the place we’re planning to be in the mid to long term

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