Last month, I started reporting on BYD’s export sales, including a long-term bar chart on the matter. Now we have an update, and it’s big. While BYD’s passenger vehicle sales outside of China rose 80% year over year in May, they did even better in June, rising a whopping 95% … [continued]
Tesla just had its 4th best quarter ever for vehicle sales. Stepping away from quarterly trends and quarterly numbers, though, I also routinely publish cumulative Tesla sales charts and facts. Looking at the numbers just now, I noticed that Tesla is on the verge of reaching 10 million cumulative vehicle … [continued]
Tesla sales rebounded, and strongly, in the second quarter. In fact, looking historically at Tesla quarterly sales (which I publish every quarter), you can see that the 2nd quarter of 2026 was Tesla’s 4th best quarter ever in terms of vehicle deliveries — 480,126 Tesla vehicles were delivered to customers. … [continued]
San Francisco, CA — The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals today upheld South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) zero-emission standard for boilers and water heaters, rejecting an industry challenge to a landmark clean air rule that will clean up pollution from industrial and commercial equipment. The People’s Collective for Environmental Justice, … [continued]
Residential storage batteries are soaring in popularity in the US and other countries as their use in virtual power plants increases.
A night on a European cruise is taxed 40% less than a hotel despite their high environmental costs and contribution to overtourism. T&E calls for tax reforms to ensure that cruise ships pay their fair share. A night on a cruise ship is taxed almost half as much as a … [continued]
Cape Verde, also known as Cabo Verde, is a small island nation off the coast of Africa. With a little over 500,000 people, it tends to not attract much attention. However, they will have much of the globe watching them as they face off versus Messi and Argentina in the World … [continued]
Following up on our report on BYD’s passenger vehicle sales in June 2026, here’s a report on the company’s commercial vehicle sales. Overall, BYD’s commercial vehicle sales (all electric) were up 24.7% year over year in June, but were down 4.4% month over month. The company had 6,180 such sales … [continued]
BYD has stopped its big 2026 sales slide. As we’ve written at length a few times now, low sales earlier in the year could have been strongly influenced by people waiting for new-generation vehicles from BYD with much better tech. Now that such vehicles are starting to arrive, surprise surprise, … [continued]
The Great Wall ORA (Good Cat) was launched a few years ago as the cheapest electric vehicle in the Australian market. After rave reviews from the Chinese market, it was great to see it in person. We took one for a test drive and were impressed by its “retro” design. … [continued]
