We Can’t Let The Last ICE Engines in Trucks Be Super Dirty

Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2022 16:06:49 +0000

What should the last ICE engines look like? Ideally, we should have already seen them, because most combustion engine development should be wrapped up by now. There’s really no future for ICE, at least in the long term. As EV infrastructure expands to even cover rural areas well, battery packs get cheaper, and the reality […]

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18% of New Cars Were Plugin Vehicles in France in January

Credit to Author: José Pontes| Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2022 03:48:58 +0000

Dacia Spring is #1! While the overall auto market fell off a cliff in January (-19% YoY), the French plugin passenger car market hit the accelerator, all thanks to pure electrics (BEVs) jumping 58%, to 10,217 registrations. Plugin hybrids (PHEVs) dropped 3% YoY, to 7,934 units,  allowing pure electrics to have 56% of plugin sales. […]

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Plugin Vehicles = 23% of New Car Sales in Netherlands in January

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 […]

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Electric Vehicles & Hybrids Surpass 10% of U.S. Light-Duty Vehicle Sales

Credit to Author: U.S. Energy Information Administration| Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2022 01:31:11 +0000

Hybrid, plug-in hybrid, and electric vehicle sales in the Unites States have increased in recent months as sales of non-hybrid internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles fueled by gasoline or diesel decreased. In the fourth quarter of 2021, hybrid, plug-in hybrid, and electric vehicles collectively accounted for 11% of light-duty vehicle sales in the United States, […]

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January German Plugin EV Share 22% — Fiat 500 In Top Spot

Credit to Author: Dr. Maximilian Holland| Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2022 13:14:03 +0000

Germany, Europe’s largest auto market, and the world’s 2nd largest plugin market after China, saw plugin electric vehicle share of 21.6% in January, almost flat year-on-year. Full electric vehicle sales grew a relative 28% year-on-year, plugin hybrids shrank slightly, and the overall auto market grew to 184,112 units. January plugin registrations saw a hangover after […]

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