Tesla Model 3 Sales = ~4× Nissan LEAF Sales, World’s 2nd Best Selling EV Outside Of China — November EV Sales Report

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2020 08:02:04 +0000

We may have some more high-selling blockbuster electric vehicles in 2020, but 2019 had one electric vehicle that was in a league of its own, the Tesla Model 3. Through November, the Model 3 had almost 3× the sales of the world’s 2nd best selling EV, the BAIC EU-Series, and it had more than 4× the sales of the world’s 2nd best selling non-Chinese

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Plug-In Vehicles = 11% of Swedish Auto Market

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2020 07:16:39 +0000

Sweden probably isn’t one of the first countries that come to mind when talking about electric vehicle leaders, but plug-in vehicles have a higher market share there than in almost any other country in the world. In 2019, 11% of auto sales were sales of plug-in vehicles

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Top CleanTechnica Stories of 2019, & Top Stories of the Decade!

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2020 04:00:16 +0000

Being the start of a new year, it’s time for a review of the most popular stories on CleanTechnica last year, and since it’s actually 2020 now, I’m also going to scroll through a list of the most popular stories of the past decade here on CleanTechnica

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Tesla Cybertruck vs. Garage … Dutch EV Sales Explosion … 2012 Model S Still Beats New Non-Tesla EVs — Top 20 CleanTechnica Stories of December

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2020 17:32:18 +0000

The Tesla Cybertruck may be “old news” by now (ah, the not-so-endearing ADD of the internet), but a piece of ours explaining why it doesn’t really need a garage was still king of the hill last month. Tesla took silver too, with a story explaining that the 2012 Tesla Model S still has superior specs to new 2020 EV entrants from other companies than Tesla. In third was a piece on world-leading research from our friend Mark Z. Jacobson and several colleagues on how the world could be a galaxy-leading 100% renewable energy planet!

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Volkswagen Group Aiming To Produce 3 Million Electric Vehicles In 2025 — How Might It Get There?

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2019 05:54:29 +0000

Volkswagen Group has been spending a lot of time these days focused on its electrification plans — or e-mobility, as they call it in Europe. Some take this as simply PR, but I think the sales targets are real and we know the company has launched an initial electric car factory and is investing tens of billions of euros into batteries and EV development

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From Electric Cars To Electric Airplanes, The End Of A Decade

Credit to Author: Nicolas Zart| Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2019 00:19:45 +0000

Lilium eVTOL Red Dot Award2019 is drawing to a close, so let’s take stock of a decade of green mobility progress that started with a handful of startups a decade ago

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Electric Vehicle Ownership: Purchasing vs. Leasing

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2019 06:44:54 +0000

For our new report, Electric Car Drivers: Demands, Desires & Dreams (2019), we investigated whether EV drivers bought their cars new, bought them used, or leased them. The split was interesting. We then dug in deeper as well, for the first time ever, to learn a bit more about the cars they replaced, and why they went electric

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EV Ownership + Rooftop Solar Ownership — New Report & Charts

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2019 04:53:54 +0000

We were curious whether EV ownership/leasing correlated with rooftop solar panel ownership, and also whether driving an EV encouraged people to drive more efficiently or even conserve energy more at home, so we surveyed thousands of EV owners. Guess what the results were

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Tesla Model 3 & Plug-In Hybrids Boom In November In Europe

Credit to Author: Jose Pontes| Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2019 04:00:10 +0000

The European passenger plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) market landed some 55,000 registrations in November (+44%), with the Dutch market and plug-in hybrids (+80% year over year, or YoY) pulling the market up the most, while fully electric vehicles (BEVs) were waiting for the 2020 flood (+23%, their lowest growth rate since June 2018)

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