In case you haven’t caught wind of the hottest new show on YouTube, it’s Jo Borras and me talking about electric vehicles! Jo has decades of experience in the EV world, and even deeper history in the auto world. I’ve been covering the EV sector for more than a decade … [continued]
Tesla wasn’t just the #1 electric vehicle or #1 small or midsize luxury vehicle or #1 luxury vehicle in the Netherlands, Norway, and Switzerland in March. It was the #1 top selling vehicle across the board.
Traditionally, January, along with February, are the two slowest months in the Chinese plug-in vehicle market, but tradition is not what it used to be. Even with disruption hitting the Chinese automotive market (the mainstream market was down 18% last month), plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) sales were up an amazing 175% year over year (YoY), to some 96,000 registrations.
Pulitzer Prize–winning auto columnist Dan Neil recently discussed his next car in the Wall Street Journal — and it’s going to be electric.
The Tesla Model 3 is #1 in safety in the USA, the Model S is #2, and the Model X is #3. In terms of US electric car sales, the ranking is the same — #1 Model 3, #2 Model S, and #3 Model X.
The European passenger plug-in market grew slightly above average last month (42% in August vs 41% year to date). The continent registered some 30,000 plug-in cars, pulling the year-to-date (YTD) count to some 242,000 deliveries and pushing the 2018 market share to 2.3%. For the month of August, the market share was 2.7%.
The Chinese plug-in vehicle (PEV) market hit its second best score this year, with some 93,000 units registered in August. However, it was up only 62%. This is a slowdown from the three-digit growth rates of previous months, and is explained by the fact that “new energy vehicle” subsidies were slashed for vehicles with range lower than 150 km. That happened in June, resulting in many small city EVs losing a large number of sales.
Something I’ve long struggled with in this industry is the issue of perspective. In particular, I find perspective is often lacking in media coverage of climate and cleantech topics.
The German plug-in vehicle (PEV) passenger car market grew 23% in August, to 5,888 registrations, with BEVs growing slower (+13%) than PHEVs (+31%). In 2018, fully electrics saw their share drop slightly to 0.9% share, while plug-in hybrids remained stable at 1%, making the total PEV share now 1.9%.
Cover your eyes if you don’t want to see something nasty. Following this sentence are two charts showing a clear collapse of BMW 3 Series sales in the USA.
