After publishing our report on the top selling EV models in the world in December and 2025 as a whole, as well as an overall report on global EV progress, here’s our complementary report on the auto brands and groups leading EV sales around the world. Geely on the Way … [continued]
Regarding December’s best selling electric vehicles, the big news is that thanks to a strong month in China, Tesla partly recovered from the hangover on the US market and saw its best sellers return to leading positions. The Model Y (132,327 units, down 3% YoY) won the best seller spot, … [continued]
December was a Record Month! There were over 2.1 million plugin vehicles registered in December, with both BEVs (+13% YoY) and PHEVs (+6% YoY) rising. With the USA EV market still in hangover mode and China slowing down, it was up to the Rest of the World (+51% YoY) to … [continued]
NIO’s recent sales growth has continued in 2026. After a long period of slow growth, in August of last year, NIO’s sales jumped up tremendously. Then sales continued to growth throughout the rest of the year. But what about January, with other Chinese EV makers struggling to get rolling this … [continued]
XPENG had a long run of huge sales growth in the past year or two. In January 2025, for example, sales reached 30,350 units, which was a 268% increase over the 8,250 sales of January 2024. However, by December, that growth has slowed down, and 2026 is not kicking off … [continued]
BEVs reach 28% market share! EVs had another strong month in Europe, with a record 453,000 plugin vehicles being registered in Europe in December, blasting through the previous record set three years before, 412,000 units. Of those 453,000 units registered in December, 327,000 of them were BEVs, with pure electrics … [continued]
Note: I believe Donald Trump has done unthinkable damage to our country and to our relations with other countries. I was sadly disappointed when Elon Musk supported his run for reelection in spite of Trump getting in bed with fossil fuel companies. Musk’s behavior as leader of the DOGE agency … [continued]
The Australian light vehicle market is dominated by “utes” — short for utilities, or utility vehicles. These have evolved from sedans fitted with a tray back to monstrous mini trucks. The big sellers are the Ford Ranger and the Toyota HiLux, followed by strong contenders like the Isuzu D-Max, Mitsubishi … [continued]
While at CES, the largest technology show in the US, there seemed to be more Chinese cars than US cars. Automakers Geely and GWM had large booths, while Kosmera showed prototypes. Vehicles from NIO and BYD were also being used by exhibitors to show off technologies that they developed within … [continued]
Steve Hanley, Larry Evans, and I sat down to talk about the biggest EV story of the year so far. That’s Canada opening up to EV trade with China. This is part of a larger trend of more and more countries of the world looking to China for tech leadership … [continued]
