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]
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]
BEVs on the way up, PHEVs on the way down Plugin vehicle registrations were up 4% year over year (YoY) in May, ending the month at around 1.7 million units. Interestingly, BEVs (+15% YoY) and PHEVs (-15% YoY) had opposite performances, with pure electrics firm in double-digit growth while plugin … [continued]
XPENG had 40,126 vehicle deliveries in June, a 15.9% increase year over year. That was also a 24.8% increase in deliveries month over month for the company. Note that static versions of the embedded charts are included at the bottom of this article. This strong June result got the company … [continued]
NIO is off to a strong start in 2026 — well, covering the first half of the year already! The company scored 40,597 deliveries in June, up 62.9% from June 2025. That was also a 7.7% increase month over month. Note that static versions of the embedded charts are included … [continued]
Makings EVs Great Again — EV Share Jumps to 35% in Europe! Thanks to a number of factors (new models, high gas prices, mass arrival of Chinese models, etc.), EVs have picked up again in Europe. Close to 400,000 plugin vehicles were registered in Europe in May, 275,000 of them … [continued]
The first quarter of 2026 saw plugin EVs at 33.7% share in Germany, up from 26.6% in Q1 2025. BEV share grew strongly year on year, and PHEV share grew modestly. Overall, Q1 auto volume was 699,377 units, up some 5% YoY. The Skoda Elroq was the best-selling BEV in … [continued]
Latin America’s small champion is breaking all expectations. Uruguay surpassed Costa Rica as the regional leader in 2025, reaching an impressive 20% BEV market share for the whole year, up from 8.5% in 2024. 2026 has seen the continuation of high growth levels in the Uruguayan market, bringing the yearly … [continued]
Latin America’s giant is waking up. For long a regional leader (ranking consistently in the fourth position in our region), Brazil has shown long periods of relative stagnation followed by sudden bursts of growth triggered by the entrance of new, more competitive models in the country. However, this trend (constant … [continued]
