Credit to Author: José Pontes| Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2022 17:19:32 +0000
Half a million plugin electric vehicle sales! In one month! Plugin vehicles in China once again ended the year with a record month, growing by 125% year over year (YoY) in the last month of the year, to a record 502,000 units. Full electric vehicles (BEVs) were responsible for 83% of the plugin market in […]
Credit to Author: José Pontes| Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2022 02:05:37 +0000
36% plugin vehicle share in December! The German automotive market has opened the gates to plugin vehicles, with December close to setting a record month, ending some 1,000 units below December 2020 with 81,188 registrations. Plugin vehicles (PEVs) scored an amazing 36% share (21% BEV) in December, with the full 2021 numbers ending at over […]
Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2022 04:57:38 +0000
Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares says there are better ways to reduce vehicle emissions than mandating electric cars.
Credit to Author: José Pontes| Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2022 02:59:30 +0000
The top 10 vehicles in the Netherlands in December in terms of registrations were all 100% electric vehicles. December was the second best month ever in the Dutch market for plugin vehicle sales, with 23,150 plugin registrations. That score was only behind the all-time record set a year ago when the EU’s CO2 fleet rules […]
Credit to Author: José Pontes| Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2022 04:50:06 +0000
While the overall French auto market had a horrible 2020 (-26% YoY), it was followed by a not much better 2021 (only up 1% compared to the previous year). The ~1.7 million units of these two years were the lowest results since 1975. Nonetheless, plugin sales continued to grow, with December sales (+6% YoY) signaling […]
Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2022 22:14:06 +0000
The argument that there are more electric car fires than gasoline car fires is silly, yet many people believe this is the case. I recently saw a few articles pointing to a study by Auto Insurance EZ which analyzed and compared data from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), […]
Credit to Author: Jesper Berggreen| Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2022 22:11:46 +0000
I wonder what characters like Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison, Hans Christian Ørsted, and Michael Faraday would think about the current shift in the world’s energy systems? Well, Mr. Ørsted and Mr. Faraday would probably think mostly about the technology emerging right know as an only natural extension of their own work, and not give much […]
Credit to Author: Jesper Berggreen| Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2022 22:11:46 +0000
I wonder what characters like Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison, Hans Christian Ørsted, and Michael Faraday would think about the current shift in the world’s energy systems? Well, Mr. Ørsted and Mr. Faraday would probably think mostly about the technology emerging right know as an only natural extension of their own work, and not give much […]
Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2022 21:42:13 +0000
I saw an interesting tweet by Sam Korus from ARK Invest yesterday. He shared that gas-powered car sales in China were down around 4% in 2021, while battery electric vehicle sales were up ~145%. He pointed out that China’s passenger auto sales were up 4.4% to a total of 20.1 million units last year and […]
Credit to Author: Dr. Maximilian Holland| Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2022 13:07:17 +0000
Germany, Europe’s largest auto market and the world’s 5th largest, saw plugin electric vehicle share hit a record of 35.7% in December, up from 26.6% year-on-year. Full battery electrics took 21.3% of the market. Overall auto volumes were down to 227,630 units, the lowest December result of recent decades. Seeing significant month-on-month growth were three […]