Norway’s EV Sales Explode Ahead Of Policy Changes

Credit to Author: Dr. Maximilian Holland| Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2023 13:17:13 +0000

Norway’s auto market saw plugin EV volume explode to take 87.6% share in December, with huge numbers of BEVs registered, and overall auto volumes double those of seasonal norms. The freak volume in December 2022 resulted from one-off pull-forward effects ahead of new policies and auto taxes applying from 2023 onwards. BEVs saw pull-forward sales, […]

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Norway BEVs Hit Record Volume in November — Tesla Model Y Leads

Credit to Author: Dr. Maximilian Holland| Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2022 19:55:08 +0000

Plugin electric vehicles took 89.3% share of the auto market in Norway in November, down from 91.2% year on year. Full electrics (BEVs), however, grew their share YoY, from 73.8% to 81.6%. Plugin hybrids continued to tail off, dropping to 7.7% from 17.4% YoY. Overall auto volumes were 19,513 units, up almost 28% YoY. November’s […]

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Norway’s BEVs Still Growing Well, Even While PHEVs Fall Away

Credit to Author: Dr. Maximilian Holland| Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2022 18:20:02 +0000

Norway’s auto market saw 86.4% plugin electric vehicle share in October, down year on year, from 89.3%. Full electrics grew share by 7.5% YoY, but were outweighed by a drop in plugin hybrids. Overall auto volumes were 12,558 units, up 8.5% YoY, and above the pre-2020 seasonal norm of 11,635 units. October’s bestseller was the […]

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Norway’s Plugin EVs Still Falling, For Reasons

Credit to Author: Dr. Maximilian Holland| Date: Sun, 04 Sep 2022 16:32:32 +0000

Norway, the country furthest along in the electric vehicle transition, saw a second consecutive month of falling plugin electric vehicle share, at 86.1% from 87.7% a year ago. Like last month, full electrics did see annual growth in share, but this was outweighed by the greater falling share of plugin hybrids. Overall auto volumes also […]

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Norway’s Plugin EVs Still Falling For Reasons

Credit to Author: Dr. Maximilian Holland| Date: Sun, 04 Sep 2022 16:32:32 +0000

Norway, the country furthest along in the electric vehicle transition, saw a second consecutive month of falling plugin electric vehicle share, at 86.1% from 87.7% a year ago. Like last month, full electrics did see annual growth in share, but this was outweighed by the greater falling share of plugin hybrids. Overall auto volumes also […]

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Norway’s Plugin Market Share Drops, BEVs Still Growing

Credit to Author: Dr. Maximilian Holland| Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2022 18:35:17 +0000

Norway, the leading country in the electric transport transition, saw a rare annual drop in plugin electric vehicle share in July 2022, to 83.0% from 84.7% year on year. Full electrics grew share modestly (70.7%, from 64.1% YoY) but plugin hybrids lost share (12.3%, from 20.6%). The overall auto market was down 31% in volume […]

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Lack Of Batteries Forces Audi To Curtail Production Of e-tron Electric SUV — Who Would’ve Predicted It?

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2020 19:20:11 +0000

Many of the world’s automakers are finding they don’t have enough batteries available for the electric cars they are building. Audi last week reportedly shut down it e-tron factory for 4 days because of a battery shortage.

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The Big Brussels Car Market, aka Auto Show

Credit to Author: Maarten Vinkhuyzen| Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2020 22:52:03 +0000

When visiting the leading car shows in Geneva, Paris, and Frankfurt, the carmakers will take you on a journey, showing their grand visions about future mobility with vehicles that merge into houses, are lounges on wheels, or are just crazy, impractical futuristic works of art

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Opel Ampera-e (Opel Who?!?) Wins January In The Netherlands — EV Sales Report

Credit to Author: Jose Pontes| Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2020 04:00:15 +0000

With a sales rush in the last days of 2019, one would imagine January would bring a big hangover for the plug-in vehicle market. But turns out, it hasn’t. Yes, the Dutch plug-in market was down 2% year over year (YoY), to 3,184 registrations, but because the overall market fell even more (-6% YoY), the plug-in vehicle (PEV) share (7.2%, 4.3% for fully electric vehicles alone) actually grew compared to 12 months ago (6.9% in January 2019). So … why is this happening

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Mercedes EQC 2020 Production Target — 50,000, Not 30,000, According To Mercedes

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2020 22:23:59 +0000

There was a bit of hoopla last week about Mercedes-Benz cutting the production target of the fully electric Mercedes-Benz EQC from ~60,000 to 30,000 due to battery production constraints

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