Stellantis Announces German Assembly Expansion For New BEV Crossover

Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2023 06:03:22 +0000

One of the big question marks in the automotive industry is how the existing ICE players are going to enter the electric age while staying profitable and successful. The transition from gasoline-powered to electric vehicles (EVs) presents a major challenge for automakers that rely on traditional fuel sources. With the shift to EVs, automakers will […]

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8.5% Of New Cars In Italy Plugin Electric Cars

Credit to Author: Carlo Ombello| Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2022 21:00:34 +0000

Italy’s EV Market Continued To Lose Steam In September Originally published on opportunity:energy. There is no good news in sight for Italy’s EV market, which is witnessing a radical turn from the burgeoning growth of the past few years to a sudden, steady decline. Meanwhile, the rest of Europe continues to maintain strong growth trends […]

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Revenge Of The ICE Car In Italy As Plug-Ins Down To 7% In August

Credit to Author: Carlo Ombello| Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2022 03:04:22 +0000

Originally published on opportunity:energy. There is no sign of relief for the ongoing EV crisis in Europe’s fourth largest auto market. As the rest of the continent continues to enjoy an increasing share of plug-in vehicles across all major countries, Italy is showing a worrying pullback, whose causes — as ever — are also political. […]

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Cold Summer For Italy’s EV Market — Plugin Vehicles Below 8% In July

Credit to Author: Carlo Ombello| Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2022 21:26:47 +0000

Electric vehicle sales in Italy are going through a time of turbulence. We walk you through the headwinds, tailwinds, and sidewinds in the monthly sales report below. Originally published on opportunity:energy. All is not well in this hot Italian summer, as the fourth largest European auto market keeps showing signs of weakness in the transition […]

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Trade In Your Old Fossil Car in France & Get An Affordable New Stellantis — “Electric As You Go”

Credit to Author: Cynthia Shahan| Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2022 20:50:21 +0000

Peugeot e-208Stellantis introduces “Electric As You Go,” a new competitive long-term rental program dedicated to the BEV world starting from €110 per month plus a cost of use of 7 cents per kilometer (with 500 km minimum per month).

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Italy’s EV Debacle In April Ahead Of New Incentives

Credit to Author: Carlo Ombello| Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2022 11:01:16 +0000

Originally published on opportunity:energy. Italy’s car market kept tumbling in April. As widely expected, with the government delaying the re-introduction of incentives for zero- or low-carbon models, and the promise to include some internal combustion engine options in the scheme, car buyers paused their purchase plans and waited. This affected the whole car market across […]

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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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The Key To The Electric Car Revolution? It’s The Batteries, Stupid

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2020 17:30:05 +0000

Saft electric car battery factoryToyota and Panasonic are teaming up to build solid state batteries while France and Germany are investing in new battery factories in Europe

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Tesla Model 3 Shatters All Records in Historic Month & Year in the Netherlands

Credit to Author: Jose Pontes| Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2020 03:50:32 +0000

Led by the Tesla Model 3, December had an amazing 22,983 plug-in registrations, a three-fold increase compared to the same month last year, finally beating one of the oldest records in modern EV history, the 15,879 units sold in the Netherlands in December

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