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: Thu, 02 Mar 2023 09:23:37 +0000
In February, Sweden’s plugin electric vehicles continued to dominate with a 54.0% share of auto sales, up from 51.6% year on year. Full electric share grew substantially, whilst plugin hybrid share decreased. Overall auto volume was 18,442 units, down some 13% YoY. The Volvo XC40 was February’s best selling BEV yet again, holding the lead […]
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: David Waterworth| Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2023 04:57:13 +0000
Although MG, BYD, and Polestar are supplying electric vehicles in much smaller numbers than Tesla in Australia, those numbers are growing and these EVs are becoming more visible. So much so, in fact, that there are times when there are no Teslas at public charging stations but there might be 4 BYD Atto 3s or […]
Credit to Author: Dr. Maximilian Holland| Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2023 08:27:34 +0000
Sweden’s plugin electric vehicle share in January was 52.4%, flat from 52.9% year on year. The temporary pause in growth comes after a pull-forward in December. Overall auto volume in January was 35,476 units, some 27% down from January 2022. The best selling full electric was the Volvo XC40. January’s combined plugin share of 52.4% […]
Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2023 04:19:26 +0000
Wayne Moore and I met at the Australian Electric Vehicles Association BBQ on a sunny Brisbane morning. When I told him I wrote for CleanTechnica, he was keen to tell me his story. Wayne’s Polestar 2 — long range, single motor, with the Pilot and Plus packs — was delivered April 2022. He has had […]
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: 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, […]
Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2022 00:23:46 +0000
This is my magnesium Polestar 2 which I purchased on the 22nd of April this year and have driven 15,000 kilometers. My original choice was to order from the factory with Napa leather seats and all the extras. When the war started in Ukraine and microprocessors started to become scarce, I cancelled that order and […]
Credit to Author: Jo Borrás| Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2022 12:10:21 +0000
Longtime Volvo fans already know that the Polestar brand once served as the AMG to Volvo’s Mercedes, offering high-performance parts and engine upgrades to make the Swedish turbo-bricks go as fast as possible. Now they’re turning that tuning heritage towards the long-range, dual-motor Polestar 2 in North America, with an optional software upgrade that boosts […]