Japan Toyota is encouraging Prius Prime drivers to drive as efficiently as possible. Toyota is offering immediate incentives — actual financial incentives — to more efficient drivers.
The on-demand crowdsourced taxi service Uber has announced that it will partner with the German automotive giant Daimler (fittingly, I guess, considering the name) on the deployment of self-driving vehicle tech.
One of the things we enjoy most about this site is our engaged and intelligent reader community. Our comment section is full of your insights and opinions, which our team reads and appreciates (unless you’re a climate-denying, pro-coal troll, then you’re outta here). And here is another way for you to share your opinions with us – this time about EVs.
US electric car sales continue to climb to new heights in 2017. Growing 59% year over year (YoY), approximately 12,000 electric cars were sold across the country in January, accounting for approximately 1% of US auto sales. The top five models accounted for approximately 40% of total US electric car sales, as most models are still compliance cars that are not designed or marketed to really pull in buyers — and aren’t even available in most states.
EV Volumes has just released its global plug-in car sales report for 2016. There are several exciting findings in the report, including a few that we’ve highlighted in recent weeks, but the most striking news for me was that the Tesla Model S clocked in as the best-selling electric car in the world in 2016.
The President of Audi of America, Scott Keogh, made some interesting comments at a conference the day before the recent National Association of Automobile Dealers convention in New Orleans, as recounted by Wards Auto.
The European EV market had approximately 30,000 registrations last month, down 11% over the same month last year. This sales slip, however, had to do with the incentives-derived sales rush of the last quarter of 2015.
Nissan will be showing off its new Juke e-Power concept at this year’s Tokyo Auto Show. The Juke-Power is a series hybrid like the popular (in Japan) Note e-Power production model.
A recent survey of 1,000 of the top automotive industry execs around the world taken as part of the 2017 KPMG Global Automotive Executive Study has revealed a number of very interesting new data points.
The National Police of Ukraine will be taking delivery of 635 Mitsubishi Outlander SUV plug-in hybrids in or around July 2017, according to a new press release from Mitsubishi itself.
