JAC Volkswagen Automotive Co., which is the joint venture between JAC (Jianghuai Automobile Co.) and Volkswagen, is planning on investing 5.06 billion yuan ($750.8 million) into a new electric car factory in Hefei, Anhui, China, according to authorities in Hefei.
We’ve published something like a bazillion Tesla sales charts and stats. (See “30 Nasty Charts,” for example.) But this is actually a new one. Jose Pontes of EV Volumes and CleanTechnica has his 2018 tally wrapped up and it puts the Tesla Model 3 in the #1 position globally among all plug-in vehicles.
The new electric car models hitting the market right now and in the coming year are a huge leap ahead of models that have been on the market for the past several years, but even without these new models, 1 million pure electric vehicles are now on roads worldwide! That’s according to new data from EV Volumes.
China is now one of the largest electric car markets in the world. It still has a long way to go to kick gasmobiles off its roads, but even the share of cars that are electric has risen substantially, jumping from 0.08% in 2013 to 0.25% in 2014… based on … [continued]
China sells a ton of electric scooters and electric bikes every year, but it is just inching into the electric car arena. Below, via EV Obsession, are China’s 2013 electric car sales numbers and leaders. China’s electric car market is just getting rolling. Sales don’t compare to US, European, or … [continued]
