Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2023 04:57:43 +0000
Volkswagen Group has big ambitions of becoming the top selling electric vehicle producer in the world. But the good news is that it’s sprinting toward that goal, and it’s already #1 in Europe and #4 in the USA. China’s the largest BEV market in the world — larger than the rest of the world combined […]
Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2023 15:44:41 +0000
I reported last week on Volkswagen of America’s rapid shift into electrification. That general theme holds. However, there was an apparent mistake in the sales table Volkswagen had published and the details are thus a bit different. The sales table seemingly had December sales figures in the table in the Q4 2022 column. So, when […]
Credit to Author: Cynthia Shahan| Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2023 20:10:33 +0000
Volkswagen has happy news on all fronts today. The featured image shows the salesperson my daughter spoke with over a year ago while checking out the ID.4 and quickly ordering. She is overjoyed because her delivery will come at last next month. True, she had to wait a long time, but during that time she […]
Credit to Author: Dr. Maximilian Holland| Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2023 07:03:15 +0000
The UK’s auto market saw plugin electric vehicles take 39.4% share of new sales in December, a new record, up from 33.2% year on year. Full electrics alone took almost a third of the market. Overall auto volumes were up 18% year on year in December, but still down compared to pre-2020 norms. The Tesla […]
Credit to Author: Maarten Vinkhuyzen| Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2023 22:09:07 +0000
By Maarten Vinkhuyzen and Zach Shahan Because we never have enough statistics, here’s another list of top selling electric vehicles — this one showing the 100 best selling BEVs in 10 European countries (combined) in 2022. We thought it would be a bit fun to look deeper down the roster of popular (or semi-popular) European […]
Credit to Author: Dr. Maximilian Holland| Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2023 05:42:38 +0000
The tide has turned in the electrification of the German auto market, with plugin electric vehicles taking the majority of sales for the first time in December. Plugins took 55.4% of the month’s passenger auto sales, with full electrics taking a third (33.2%) and plugin hybrids taking over a fifth (22.2%). Plugless hybrids took 12.8%, […]
Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2023 22:46:08 +0000
Volkswagen of America has released its 4th quarter 2022 sales numbers and its full-year 2022 sales numbers. The German automaker also highlighted that 6.8% of Volkswagen’s 2022 sales in the USA were EV sales (all ID.4 sales, as the ID.4 is the only electric vehicle Volkswagen sells in the country). The thing is: there’s a […]
Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2023 16:25:52 +0000
Volkswagen and Volvo chose CES 2023 to introduce new models to the American market. Both offer important new technologies.
Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2023 21:07:04 +0000
Hyundai has announced it will sell only battery-electric cars in Norway starting January 1, 2023. Volkswagen will do the same next year.
Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2022 20:35:43 +0000
Volkswagen Group CEO Oliver Blume told investors recently that he and his management team have a 10-point plan for the future.