Credit to Author: Maarten Vinkhuyzen| Date: Sat, 29 Feb 2020 12:10:38 +0000
A CleanTechnica delegation recently visited a super-secret Renault presentation. It was the press presentation of the soon-to-arrive Renault Twingo ZE. This is Renault’s second mass market fully electric passenger vehicle
Credit to Author: Maarten Vinkhuyzen| Date: Sat, 29 Feb 2020 05:08:26 +0000
Many organizations have to improvise at the last minute to replace their media communication from the Geneva International Motor Show (GIMS) with something else
Credit to Author: Jose Pontes| Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2020 07:38:54 +0000
The German plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) market started the year on fire, jumping 128% year over year (YoY), to a record 16,131 registrations. That smashed the previous record (12,026 units) set last October, so it seems the German locomotive has (finally) been set in motion
Credit to Author: Maarten Vinkhuyzen| Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2020 22:52:03 +0000
When visiting the leading car shows in Geneva, Paris, and Frankfurt, the carmakers will take you on a journey, showing their grand visions about future mobility with vehicles that merge into houses, are lounges on wheels, or are just crazy, impractical futuristic works of art
Credit to Author: Jose Pontes| Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2020 06:29:27 +0000
The French plug-in passenger electric vehicle market broke all of its previous records in January, with all-electric models jumping 258% to 10,952 units and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles surging 238% to 3,813 registrations
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
Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2020 05:48:58 +0000
The Tesla Model 3 is the Usain Bolt of the electric vehicle market. It is far and away the most popular electric vehicle in the world. In fact, it had nearly 3× as many sales last year as the 2nd best selling electric vehicle (EV), and it accounted for ~4× as many sales as the 3rd best selling EV, the Nissan
Credit to Author: Jose Pontes| Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2020 04:57:17 +0000
The European plug-in electric vehicle market registered a record 77,000 vehicles in December (+88%!), with the Dutch market most helping to pull the market up. Fully electric vehicles (+91% year over year) grew a bit faster than plug-in hybrids (+81%), with the powertrain breakdown becoming even more friendly to fully electric vehicles (68% to 32% in December, versus 64% to 36% in 2019)
Credit to Author: Maarten Vinkhuyzen| Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2020 23:16:25 +0000
In last week’s press release about Renault’s 2019 sales success, there was a stealth announcement about the introduction of the Twingo Z.E. “For the group, 2020 will mark a new stage in its electric offensive with the launch of Twingo Z.E. and the deployment of its new E-Tech hybrid and plug-in hybrid offers.” Only a few obsessive followers realized that this was news
Credit to Author: Jose Pontes| Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2020 01:03:49 +0000
The German plug-in electric passenger vehicle market ended the year on fire, with registrations more than doubling in December, to 11,328 registrations