Credit to Author: Dr. Maximilian Holland| Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2023 04:36:59 +0000
Germany, Europe’s single largest auto market, saw plugin electric vehicles take 21.5% share of sales in February 2023, a drop from 24.9% year on year. Full electric share grew, but plugin hybrid share almost halved. Overall auto volume was 206,210 units, up by some 3% YoY, but still some 18% down from pre-2020 seasonal norms. […]
Credit to Author: Dr. Maximilian Holland| Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2023 06:21:38 +0000
The UK saw plugin electric vehicles take 22.9% share of the auto market in February 2023, down from 25.6% year on year. Overall auto volume was 74,441 units, up some 26% YoY, though still down from the ~81.000 unit seasonal norm, pre-2020. The Tesla Model Y was the UK’s best selling full electric vehicle for […]
Credit to Author: Dr. Maximilian Holland| Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2023 04:28:58 +0000
Germany saw plugin electric vehicle (EV) share at a low ebb in January, just 15.1%, from 21.6% year on year. The one-off low result comes in the shadow of record plugin share in December, ahead of reduced incentives from January 1st; the imbalance will normalise in the coming months. Overall auto volumes were 179,225 units, […]
Credit to Author: Dr. Maximilian Holland| Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2023 11:55:21 +0000
The UK auto market saw plugin electric vehicles (EVs) take 20.0% share of new sales in January, flat from 20.4% year on year. Full electrics grew slightly whilst plugin hybrids shrank. Overall auto volume was 131,994 units, up some 15% YoY, but still 21% below pre-2020 seasonal norms. Volkswagen was the UK’s best selling BEV […]
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: 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, 23 Dec 2022 04:20:12 +0000
South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Group and SK On have finalized a site in Georgia for another EV battery factory. That may seem like mundane news, but it turns out that this investment alone is expected to be one of the largest economic development stories in the history of Georgia. So say the state of Georgia […]
Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2022 01:38:24 +0000
When I first saw the headline about children working throughout the Hyundai–Kia supply chain, I started wondering what 3rd world country this was referring to. Then I saw the end of the Reuters headline — Alabama! The highly esteemed United States of America! True, we don’t have public health care like most of the developed […]
Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2022 16:30:17 +0000
Robots come in all shapes and sizes, and we are getting a greater variety of autonomous vehicles year after year — or even month after month — as well. They are slipping into more and more locations, and rather than taking over cities in a big explosive way, are performing more services incrementally. I recently […]
Credit to Author: Dr. Maximilian Holland| Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2022 22:01:27 +0000
Germany’s plugin electric vehicle share broke new records in November, gaining 39.4% of the auto market, up from 34.4%, year on year. Overall auto volumes were 260,512 units, up some 31% YoY, though still down around 10% from pre-2020 seasonal norms. The Tesla Model 3 was the bestselling full electric. November’s combined plugin share of […]