The Musk–Trump Effect Weakens As Tough Competition Softens Tesla’s 2024 Annual Sales

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2025 03:15:09 +0000

As I logged in to write this morning, Tesla stock was down nearly 5%. It seemed at that early hour as if the Musk–Trump honeymoon was over, and the numbers piling in since that dawn hour have reinforced my original speculation. Tesla’s press release today embraced a feel-good focus as … [continued]

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NIO & XPENG Sales Trends Across 5 Years — Charts!

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2025 02:01:53 +0000

I covered XPENG’s and NIO’s great December, 4th quarter, and overall 2024 sales results yesterday. It was an excellent year for these two pure EV Chinese startups, and especially an excellent end of year for them. Now, I want to dive into their long-term sales trends. Note: I imagine neither … [continued]

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BYD Bus & Commercial Vehicle Sales Explode — Charts

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2025 23:37:13 +0000

I just wrote about BYD’s 2024 passenger vehicle sales and highlighted trends going back two years via various charts. However, BYD also produces large commercial electric vehicles — electric buses, heavy-duty electric trucks, and more. For two reasons, I decided to split out commercial electric vehicles into this separate article. … [continued]

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Rebirth of the PHEV? What Do BYD’s and Tesla’s 2024 Vehicle Sales Tell Us?

Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2025 23:10:29 +0000

The world’s top two electric vehicle companies, BYD and Tesla, just released their latest annual sales figures, and they make some really interesting reading. Tesla leads the way in terms of battery electric vehicle sales, but it’s getting quite tight, as BYD is now creeping up and getting close to … [continued]

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BYD Car Sales Rose 60% in December, 41% in 2024

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2025 21:50:30 +0000

BYD’s huge growth in 2024, as I wrote just two days ago, was one of the stories of the year. Now we have BYD’s December and full-year 2024 sales in, and they’re good. In December, BYD’s plugin vehicle sales were up 60%! Across the full year, they were up 41.3%. … [continued]

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Redefining Energy 2025 Predictions: Transportation, Energy, Electricity, & Investments

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2025 21:41:33 +0000

For years, Laurent Segalen and Gerard Reid have had an annual predictions episode, where they rank the previous year’s predictions and make new ones. Last year I joined them and made a couple of predictions of my own, and now the annual episode is out. Here it is with a … [continued]

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EV Sales Growth Slump Of 2024 Was Overblown, Now Let’s Do 2025

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2025 19:23:29 +0000

Global EV sales continued to increase in 2024, though 2025 could be a work in progress the US after President Biden leaves office on January 20.

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UK Engine Manufacturers Report Hydrogen Engines Essential For Solving Climate Change

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2025 02:33:55 +0000

The hydrogen for transportation community is all abuzz about a late-year report from a working group of the UK’s Hydrogen Delivery Council and the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero. The working group, made up almost entirely of professionals whose entire career, livelihood, and indeed the future of the … [continued]

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Next-Gen “Massless” EV Batteries Could Weigh Nothing At All

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2025 15:38:29 +0000

“Massless” EV batteries are designed to pull double duty as structural elements that add no extra weight to a vehicle, increasing battery range by an estimated 70%.

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