Our EV charging conference last week delayed my monthly US electric car sales report, but the day has arrived.
Naturally, Tesla Model 3 bottlenecks are a bummer, so my Model 3 estimate* is moderate. Meanwhile, estimates for the Tesla Model S and Tesla Model X put these vehicles at #2 and #3. And the car that really stole the show in October was the Chevy Bolt.
Nearly 40,000 plug-in electric passenger cars and light-duty commercial vehicles have been sold so far in Germany this year, going on the most recent figures from EV-Volumes.
The plug-in electric vehicle market in Europe is highly fragmented and dependent upon relativity high market shares in countries with high income (high GDPs), especially those with good incentives on offer, according to a new report from the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA).
The European passenger plug-in market returned from the holiday season with fully charged batteries, growing almost a third (+32%) compared to the same period last year by registering some 33,700 units. That’s just a whisker below the all-time record of December 2015 (33,827), which, let’s not forget, was inflated by fiscal changes that happened in the Netherlands, Sweden, and Denmark in January 2016.
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Despite the country being home to only around 5 million people, thanks to generous incentives, a high per-capita income, and decades of EV development and awareness raising, Norway is currently the third largest plug-in electric vehicle market in the world — behind only China and the US.
Electric vehicle production in China will total more than 1 million cars next year, before rising to around 3 million a year by 2020, going by comments made recently by the chairman of the large auto manufacturer BAIC Group, Xu Heyi.
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The rise and rise of the Chinese plug-in car market seems unstoppable, with another record performance in September. In total, 59,000 new passenger plug-in cars were registered last month in China, growing 80% regarding the same month last year, pulling the year to date (YTD) count to over 338,000 units, up 48% YoY.
Global plug-in electric vehicle sales were up 46% year-on-year during the first half of 2017 (as compared to the first half of 2016), according to the most recent figures from our friends over at EV-Volumes.
