28% of New Cars Sold in Netherlands Now Plugin Cars, Lynk & Co #1

Credit to Author: José Pontes| Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2022 02:50:08 +0000

After a surprisingly good January, February doubled last year’s result, with the Dutch plugin vehicle (PEV) market reaching 28% last month. That’s mostly thanks to pure electrics (16% of new vehicle sales), which surged 275%(!) year over year (YoY). In fact, that result allowed full electrics (BEVs) to surpass plugin hybrids (PHEVs) in the year-to-date […]

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28% of New Cars Sold in Netherlands Now Plugin Cars

Credit to Author: José Pontes| Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2022 02:46:08 +0000

After a surprisingly good January, February doubled last year’s result, with the Dutch plugin vehicle (PEV) market reaching 28% last month. That’s mostly thanks to pure electrics (16% of new vehicle sales), which surged 275%(!) year over year (YoY). In fact, that result allowed full electrics (BEVs) to surpass plugin hybrids (PHEVs) in the year-to-date […]

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The World’s Top Selling Electric Vehicles — January 2022

Credit to Author: José Pontes| Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2022 19:25:27 +0000

World EV sales continue to grow fast around the world. January kept the trend going, or even increased it. Tesla Model Y New #1 in Hot Market Registrations were up 87% year over year (YoY) in January, to over 603,000 units. China’s market was the main driver of growth, as we can see on the […]

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Sweden Plugin EV Share 52% In February, Kia Niro Leads

Credit to Author: Dr. Maximilian Holland| Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2022 10:56:19 +0000

Sweden’s plugin electric vehicle share hit 51.6% in February 2022, up from 34.8% year on year. Full electrics took 25.6% share, dramatic growth from 6.1% year on year. Overall auto market volumes were 21,136, some 7% down from the last two years. The Kia Niro was Sweden’s best selling electric in February. February’s combined result […]

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Sweden Starts 2022 With Plugin EVs Already On Top

Credit to Author: Dr. Maximilian Holland| Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2022 14:29:54 +0000

Sweden started 2022 with an impressive plugin electric vehicle share of 52.3%, up from 33.5% in January 2021. This is the first time Sweden has started a year with plugins preferred over non-plugins, and their share will only climb throughout 2022. Sweden has thus already “made the switch” to mostly plugin sales. The overall auto […]

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The 2 Big Questions Regarding Volkswagen’s Future

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

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Volkswagen Increases 2023 & 2025 ID Production Targets

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2019 09:21:34 +0000

Angela Merkel speaks at ZwickauPreviously, Volkswagen announced an intention to produce and sell 1 million fully electric ID vehicles in 2025. The target year for that is now 2023, while the 2025 target has increased to 1½ million

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Volkswagen Increases 2023 & 2025 EV Production Targets

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2019 09:21:34 +0000

Angela Merkel speaks at ZwickauPreviously, Volkswagen Group announced an intention to produce and sell 1 million fully electric vehicles in 2025. The target year for that is now 2023, while the 2025 target has increased to 1½ million

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Volkswagen & Ford vs. Tesla? Or Volkswagen & Ford vs. Toyota & Honda?

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sun, 01 Dec 2019 06:27:31 +0000

Yes, the Tesla Cybertruck stole the thunder from Ford’s Mustang Mach-E, which was dominating electric transportation news for a few days, and it seems like ages ago that Volkswagen unveiled the ID.3. Nonetheless, as much as we want to know what the consumer demand will be for the Tesla Cybertruck, perhaps a bigger question is trying to figure out where Ford and Volkswagen are headed with electric vehicles. Tesla will be here, Tesla will sell EVs — a lot of them. What about Ford? What about Volkswagen? And which models and brands are their electric vehicle offerings really competing with

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