Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2023 15:15:56 +0000
The US auto industry is truly on the rebound. In the 3rd quarter, sales increasing 1% compared to the 3rd quarter of 2021, the first positive trend in a while. But was it just a lucky little blip? Seemingly not, as US auto industry sales in the 4th quarter of 2022 were 10% higher than […]
Credit to Author: José Pontes| Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2023 07:05:00 +0000
With the overall auto market now in recovery mode (+9% YoY) — yet still 17% below January 2020, the last normal month — the French plugin passenger car market hit the accelerator. This was all thanks to pure electrics (BEVs) jumping 43%, to 14,649 registrations, or 13% share. Surprisingly, despite losing access to subsidies on […]
Credit to Author: José Pontes| Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2023 12:30:28 +0000
After the subsidies-derived sales rush of December, leading to a historic performance, Germany’s plugin vehicle (PEV) market was bound to have a hangover month in January. And so it did, with this market starting the year with a 33% drop over the same month last year. The almost 40,000 units registered in January 2022 dropped […]
Credit to Author: José Pontes| Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2023 19:35:36 +0000
China’s Lynk & Co Rules The Netherlands
Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2023 16:05:33 +0000
Volkswagen says it has developed a pulse inverter internally that improves powertrain efficiency by 20%. That’s a really big deal.
Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2023 03:40:42 +0000
Volkswagen is working on an electric urban car that will sell for around 20,000 euros and may be known as a Golf. A GTI version is possible.
Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2023 02:57:04 +0000
If you haven’t noticed by now, in the past year or two, Volkswagen has been linking up with a number of the famous characters you can find over on Disney+. First, we saw links to Star Wars characters like Obi-Wan Kenobi, C-3PO, and R2-D2. Now, Volkswagen’s partners in electrification are Ant-Man & The Wasp. One’s […]
Credit to Author: Dr. Maximilian Holland| Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2023 04:28:58 +0000
Germany saw plugin electric vehicle (EV) share at a low ebb in January, just 15.1%, from 21.6% year on year. The one-off low result comes in the shadow of record plugin share in December, ahead of reduced incentives from January 1st; the imbalance will normalise in the coming months. Overall auto volumes were 179,225 units, […]
Credit to Author: José Pontes| Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2023 14:51:02 +0000
The last months of 2022 brought a record-fest for world plugin vehicle sales, with 3 months out of the last 4 setting new sales records. December was one of them, with over 1,200,000 registrations. With plugin registrations jumping in 2022 an impressive 55% compared to the previous year, this year ended with the plugin market […]
Credit to Author: Dr. Maximilian Holland| Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2023 11:55:21 +0000
The UK auto market saw plugin electric vehicles (EVs) take 20.0% share of new sales in January, flat from 20.4% year on year. Full electrics grew slightly whilst plugin hybrids shrank. Overall auto volume was 131,994 units, up some 15% YoY, but still 21% below pre-2020 seasonal norms. Volkswagen was the UK’s best selling BEV […]