May 25th, 2020 | by Cynthia Shahan
I believe there are police officers everywhere who want to switch to electric cars — or are at least interested in finding out more about them. In Europe, the Hyundai Kona EV is a particularly popular model with the police
May 25th, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
Norway remains one of the most fascinating auto markets in the world. With a 70% plug-in vehicle market share in the first 4 months of 2020, there is nothing that comes close to it. That isn't an overnight figure either — the country has been far ahead of any other market in terms of plug-in vehicle market share for several years
May 25th, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
Austria is yet another European country to pass up 5% plug-in vehicle market share in 2020. The market is actually at nearly 7%, one of the highest plug-in vehicle market shares in the world, thanks to April showing 7.5% share, according to our friends at EV Volumes
May 25th, 2020 | by Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai
One of the main players in the South African EV space is GridCars. Established in 2009, GridCars has grown to become South Africa’s largest Electric Vehicle Charging Service Equipment (EVSE), Charging Station Infrastructure and Management Systems firm
May 21st, 2020 | by Jose Pontes
Despite the Covid-related lockdown that sent the overall German auto market down 61% year over year (YoY) in April, the German plugin market grew 33% last month, having registered 10,253 units
May 21st, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
In the first 4 months of 2020, plug-in vehicles accounted for 5.5% of all auto sales in Ireland. The wild world of coronavirus, though, made something special out of April — or perhaps Ireland's time has simply come. A stunning 18% of auto sales in the month of April were plug-in vehicle sales
May 20th, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
The Swedish auto market, like other auto markets but not as extreme, saw its numbers crash (again) in April. The overall auto market was down 38% year over year. Also like in other markets, plug-in vehicles did better than the overall market. They actually saw a sales increase in April
May 19th, 2020 | by Jose Pontes
While the overall French market ground to a halt due to the coronavirus lockdown (-89% year over year), plugins were down just 66%, with fully electric vehicles (BEVs) faring slightly better, down only -62%. That allowed BEVs to have 74% of the plugin market last month, slightly better than this year's average of 73%
May 16th, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
Based on CleanTechnica's sophisticated number crunching, in the first quarter of 2020, the Tesla Model 3 had 5× more sales than the Chevy Bolt, 14× more sales than the Nissan
May 14th, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
One of the popular discussions in plug-in world over the past decade has been how much effort should be put on developing compelling and well rounded 100% electric vehicles as soon as possible versus using plug-in hybrids as a stepping stone to a fully electric era. Perhaps the most useful real-world competition between those two approaches in 2020 is Tesla versus
May 13th, 2020 | by Jose Pontes
With the Netherlands escaping a full lockdown, the economic slowdown hasn't been as devastating as in other markets, with the overall market dropping just 53%
May 5th, 2020 | by Dr. Maximilian Holland
April saw clean transport pioneer Norway's market share of plug-in electric vehicles jump to 70%, sharply up from 50% a year ago. This is the biggest year-on-year climb that we have seen in two years. Popular plug-in models in April included the Audi e-tron, VW e-Golf, and Nissan
May 5th, 2020 | by Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai
South Africa’s EV public charging network is growing all the time, and thanks to Shaun and his partners, evCrowdRoute is one of the firms making this happen. CleanTechnica caught up with Shaun Maidment to discuss this
April 30th, 2020 | by Jose Pontes
The European passenger plug-in vehicle market had 84,000 registrations in March (+41% year over year/YoY), a great performance considering the effect that several lockdowns across the continent have had. Furthermore, this is while the overall auto market was crashing (-52% YoY), inflating last month's plug-in vehicle share to an amazing 9.9% (6% fully electric vehicles/BEVs). That pulls the 2020 plug-in vehicle (PEV) share to 7.5% (4.3% for BEVs alone), well above the 3.6% result of
April 21st, 2020 | by Jose Pontes
Despite the Covid-related lockdown in the second half of the month, the German plug-in vehicle market score signaled another record performance in March, its third in a row — 19,145 plug-in vehicles (EVs) were registered. With the overall market dropping 38% year over year (YoY), last month's plug-in share reached a record 8.9% (4.8% fully electric/BEV), pulling the yearly tally to an amazing 7.3% (3.7% BEV)
April 15th, 2020 | by Jose Pontes
With the overall French market crumbling (-72% year over year!) due to the coronavirus lockdown, and the country returning to registrations levels (62,668 units) not seen in the past 50 years, one would think that plug-ins would suffer too, right? The answer to that is "yes" and "no."
April 11th, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
In the following article, I'm listing what I consider to be the 10 best electric vehicles in the USA. Naturally, this is just my opinion. Feel free to offer your own list down in the comments
April 10th, 2020 | by Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai
South Africa’s uYilo Electric Mobility Program, a multi-stakeholder, collaborative program focused on enabling, facilitating, and mobilizing electric mobility in South Africa, has just released its State of Electric Vehicles in South Africa Report. According to the report, 1,119 plugin electric vehicles had been sold in South Africa by the end of 2019. It’s interesting to see that the sales were practically evenly split between battery electric vehicles (BEVs) and plugin hybrids (PHEVs). 545 (49%) of these were BEVs and 574 (51%) were PHEVs. These numbers give an interesting look in to the state of electric vehicles in South Africa even though they are low compared to other markets with mature EV industries such as Europe, North America, and China
April 7th, 2020 | by Jose Pontes
While the Netherlands does not have yet a full lockdown, the coronavirus pandemic has forced a wide range of businesses to shut down, slowing business significantly, so expect slow sales months at least in April and May ... in the overall market, that is
April 4th, 2020 | by Dr. Maximilian Holland
Europe's largest auto market, Germany, hit another all-time record plug-in electric vehicle market share in March, reaching 9.2%. The Tesla Model 3 was the best selling full electric model, with an estimated 1490 sales, just ahead of the Renault Zoe. Overall auto market volume fell 38% year on year
April 3rd, 2020 | by Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai
Hybrid vehicles have come a long way since they went mainstream with the very successful Toyota Prius. Now in its fourth generation, featuring an 8.8 kWh battery, the Prius Prime/Plug-In Hybrid is good for an all-electric range of about 40 km
March 31st, 2020 | by Jose Pontes
The European passenger plug-in market landed over 69,000 registrations in February (+111% compared to February 2019), with the 2020 plug-in market growing 117%, to some 144,000 units. This is a great performance that should help to weaken the effect of the upcoming coronavirus months, in which sales will most likely fall abruptly throughout the continent
March 26th, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
Fully electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids combined to account for a surprising 37% of the auto market in Iceland in February. That's up from an already impressive 25% in
