After the usual off-season (January and February), March came and electric car sales surged to 59,000 units in China, up 85% year over year (YoY). Quarter 1 2018 sales doubled compared to the same period last year, to over 122,000 units.
What was the hottest cleantech news in China in Q1 2018? Read on…
2017 was another big year for the deployment of electric buses in China, with 89,546 electric buses deployed, but who supplies the batteries that are creating the world’s largest electric bus fleets in the world? For this, we need to find the 2017 Chinese installed capacity.
February is traditionally the slowest selling month in China, but with electric car sales at around 34,000, there’s not much to complain about — numbers were up 88% year over year (YoY), making this by far the best February ever.
After the December sales peak, January signaled the expected hangover, but still, sales stood at some 35,000 passenger plug-in vehicles (PEVs), up four-fold year over year (YoY), making this by far the best January ever for electric car sales in China.
Negotiations between Tesla and the city of Shanghai about building a factory in that city’s Free Trade Zone appear to have stalled over whether Tesla must work with a local partner.
Tesla, Tesla, and Tesla — yep, yet again, it was Tesla stories that caught the most eyeballs here on CleanTechnica in the past week. From US electric car sales pontification to an Australian virtual power plant to Tesla Model Y production rumors to Tesla home solar sales at Home Depot, the company was a hot item. Scroll down to find out what else made the top 20 list — and click through if you haven’t read any of these!
The top 30 CleanTechnica stories of January … er, top 32 … are below. Have fun!
The rise and rise of the Chinese plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) market is unstoppable, with yet another record performance in December. A total of 102,000 new passenger PEVs were registered last month, up 130% year over year. Yes, that was just December, and it pulled the year-to-date count to over 600,000 units, up 71% compared to 2016.
Tesla has long been seen as a rebel of the auto world, but it’s becoming a bit mainstream, no? I’m inspired to do a long piece on this … but not yet. But it just struck me rather starkly as I shockingly saw that no Tesla story was among the top 3 stories of the past week on CleanTechnica … or even the top 5! Or even the top 10!
