Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2024 14:40:25 +0000
Northvolt and Volvo are both encountering headwinds that may delay their electric car battery and manufacturing plans.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2024 01:35:42 +0000
Volvo Cars is yet another automaker highlighting its EV sales growth last quarter. After a few months of doom and gloom about “falling” EV sales — headline after headline after headline, not to mention real-world discussions — we sure are seeing a lot of automakers boast about booming EV sales … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: José Pontes| Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2024 22:14:24 +0000
We’ve already written about the top selling electric car models in the world in the month of May. Now let’s look at the brands and OEMs selling the most electric vehicles. Top Selling Brands In May, #1 BYD, now deep into pricing out the ICE competition (and quite a few … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: José Pontes| Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2024 17:54:34 +0000
Plugin vehicles are all the rage in the Chinese auto market, with plugins scoring 816,000 sales (in a 1.7-million-unit overall market). That’s up 33% year over year (YoY). Looking deeper at the numbers, BEVs were up 22% while PHEVs did even better, jumping 55% in May. Breaking down plugin sales … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Cynthia Shahan| Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2024 20:47:36 +0000
It’s encouraging to learn that established brands, like McDonald’s, are investing in electric trucks and solar power. This week’s headlines also include Wendy’s 130 solar-enabled restaurants, new electric vehicles in the UK, a huge distributed solar initiative in New York, and much more. Read on for the news. Electric Vehicles … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: José Pontes| Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2024 14:26:55 +0000
Tesla #1 and #2 Lead in PHEV-Heavy Market After previously checking out Spain, we turn west, to its Iberian neighbor, Portugal, for a new EV sales report. As a Southern European market with low purchase power, one would think that this would be another market lingering in the back of … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Press Release| Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2024 18:50:26 +0000
Volvo’s electric trucks have driven more than 80 million kilometers or 2,000 laps around the world since Volvo launched its first electric truck models in 2019. These trucks have reduced CO2 emissions and at the same time improved the working environment for drivers significantly. New monitoring data for Volvo’s fleet … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: José Pontes| Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2024 22:46:44 +0000
In a negative month in the overall market (down 14% to 28,361 units), May saw plugin registrations also drop by 13% YoY, to 13,174 units. As a result, the Dutch plugin vehicle (PEV) market reached 47% last month, in line with the year-to-date average. That’s mostly thanks to pure electrics … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Press Release| Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2024 15:17:37 +0000
We are in a celebratory mood this week, as our factory outside Charleston, South Carolina has now started building our new electric flagship SUV — and the first customer deliveries are scheduled for the second half of this year. The EX90 not only expands our portfolio of fully electric cars, … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: José Pontes| Date: Thu, 30 May 2024 01:39:36 +0000
In the meantime, Volkswagen is starting to recover its mojo. Some 219,000 plugin vehicles were registered in Europe in April, which is up 11% year over year (YoY). And while Tesla isn’t helping (in fact, Tesla’s deliveries were down 2% YoY in April), the plugin tally from Volvo, Volkswagen, and … [continued]
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