XPeng CEO Explores Current Upsides & Downsides of XPeng Self-Driving Tech

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2022 11:03:37 +0000

Every automaker and their cousin is going to lead us into an autonomous driving future … according to their press departments. In actuality, I think there are only a few automakers that have deep in-house teams focused on impressive internal innovation to get to that eventual goal. In the shorter term, that kind of leadership […]

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Dutch BEV Market Up 82%, Fossil Fuel Vehicles Down 16%

Credit to Author: Maarten Vinkhuyzen| Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2022 02:24:06 +0000

The Dutch battery electric vehicle (BEV) market is slowly recovering. It is up 82% in the first half of 2022 compared to the first half of 2021, thanks to 29,428 registrations. At the same time, the internal combustion engine vehicle (ICEV) market is down 16% to 124,280 registrations. In the last decade, before the disruptions […]

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XPeng & NIO Score Nearly 30,000 Sales Combined In June

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2022 03:47:48 +0000

Chinese smart electric vehicle startups XPeng and NIO certainly have their differences — plenty of them — but they’ve also followed almost parallel paths with regards to their production and sales ramp-ups. Also, they both joined the US stock market, which has made them particularly interesting to many people outside of China. That aligns well […]

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Electric Car Sales: Global Top 20

Credit to Author: José Pontes| Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2022 06:11:55 +0000

Global plugin vehicle registrations were up 55% in May 2022 compared to May 2021. With the China covid lockdown effects easing, sales have recovered most of their previous pace, reaching 699,000 registrations last month. That represents 12% share of the overall auto market (8.6% BEV share). Considering the steep drops in the overall market, and […]

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NIO Has Passed 200,000 Cumulative EV Deliveries

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2022 11:00:54 +0000

NIO ES8 reviewApproximately one month before XPeng announced that it had reached 200,000 cumulative EV deliveries across the life of the company, NIO hit the same milestone. It’s a significant milestone that many expected the company would never reach — after all, how many EV startups can survive and thrive? Just as many very serous industry analysts […]

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XPeng Reaches 200,000 Vehicle Deliveries in 2½ Years

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2022 14:11:15 +0000

Two and a half years after its first vehicle delivery, the delivery of an XPeng P7 in December 2018, XPeng has reached the milestone of 200,000 vehicle deliveries — all 100% electric vehicles, of course. XPeng benefits from jumping onto the scene just as the EV market was getting hot, before legacy automakers were serious […]

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