Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2023 01:43:35 +0000
When you think of Škoda, you don’t think of it being a battery giant. You think of it being a moderately sized brand within the Volkswagen Group stable. (Or, at least, I do.) However, the fact is, Škoda Auto does produce a lot of batteries for various Volkswagen Group vehicles — more than 500,000 to […]
Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sat, 13 May 2023 04:54:03 +0000
There are always a large number of stories we put on our story sheet for writers that don’t get covered. And some of those are big stories that I wish we had covered. New UK DriveElectric Hub to Give Real-Time EV Cost and Carbon Data As electric vehicles (EVs) get more and more popular, a […]
Credit to Author: Maarten Vinkhuyzen| Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2023 21:10:33 +0000
The Cupra Born needs an introduction. It is a new brand with a new model. Cupra is really a sub-brand of SEAT, one of the Volkswagen Group brands. SEAT is a brand for younger, more fun loving customers — at least, judging by the marketing materials. Cupra is its sporty variant. Younger, fun loving people […]
Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2022 05:00:56 +0000
Volkswagen aims to become the top selling electric automaker in the world. It’s got a steep hill to climb to get there, but the German auto giant has made a lot of progress in the past year. Tesla intends to reach 1.4 million BEV deliveries this year. Volkswagen Group is approaching 500,000. (Tesla actually has […]
Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2022 18:00:35 +0000
The CUPRA Formentor received the top possible 5-star safety rating from independent testing firm Euro NCAP. This is a big accomplishment because it’s the first model developed and produced entirely by the company. The vehicle scored highly in all areas, with the Adult Occupant rating landing at 93%, Child Occupant safety at 88%, Vulnerable Road […]
Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2022 19:04:38 +0000
Sitting somewhere between Chinese EV startups XPeng & NIO and American EV powerhouse Tesla, Volkswagen Group delivered 217,100 full electric vehicle (BEV) sales to customers in the first half of 2022. NIO delivered 50,827 vehicles in that time period, XPeng delivered 68,983, and Tesla delivered 564,743. Volkswagen Group’s 217,100 BEV deliveries were 27% higher than […]
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, 16 Jan 2020 16:35:43 +0000
Volkswagen’s CEO, Herbert Diess, has reportedly expressed yet again the corporation’s powerful internal struggles regarding the transition to electric vehicles
Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2020 00:00:13 +0000
Volkswagen is launching into what could be a huge electric decade that reinvents and rejuvenates the large global automotive group. Yes, the Volkswagen ID.3 — which is sort of supposed to be the VW Beetle or Golf of this century — has some delays. Reinvention can be tough
Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2019 05:37:56 +0000
In response to a recent article of mine about electric vehicle models that could potentially hit 10,000+ sales a month, several readers suggested other models that I neglected (or simply didn’t have much faith in). I thought these suggestions warranted a followup article