Electric Cars Will Treble Market Share This Year In Europe
EU standards are driving electric cars towards 10% of sales, and 15% in 2021.
But lax targets for 2025 and 2030 would see EV sales stagnate for a decade.
EU standards are driving electric cars towards 10% of sales, and 15% in 2021.
But lax targets for 2025 and 2030 would see EV sales stagnate for a decade.
Mazda has finally entered the electric vehicle market — in the UK, at least. And its market entry is surprisingly appealing. It’s an electric crossover with some pros and cons, but I could see its attractive styling and vehicle class appealing to many buyers.
A potential bottleneck could come quite soon on the used EV supply side. Thanks to Japanese OEM’s love of mild hybrids and their quest to prolong the ICE age as long as possible, sales of EVs in Japan have been very disappointing. Sales have been so poor that the market share of EVs in Japan was recently just under 1%.
On Wednesday, July 15, 2020, in Yokohama, Japan, the first big EV news from Nissan in about 10 years was shared with the world. Am I over the top with this statement? Probably, but I have forgotten how many years we have waited for this companion to the Nissan Leaf.
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Recently published patent filings in Japan are pointing to the return of Mazda’s rotary engine. What’s more, the drawings seem to indicate that the Wankel-derived engine is set to make its return in a form that green-car enthusiasts have been dreaming of for years: as a hybrid range-extender.
When visiting the leading car shows in Geneva, Paris, and Frankfurt, the carmakers will take you on a journey, showing their grand visions about future mobility with vehicles that merge into houses, are lounges on wheels, or are just crazy, impractical futuristic works of art.
The Mazda MX-30 electric SUV will go on sale in Europe in late 2020. The company’s engineers are tuning it to drive exactly like its gasoline and diesel powered cousins. Is that a smart thing?
(tl;dr: Donald Trump and a number of automakers are against higher voluntary emissions standards, and are pushing for policy that is not only bad for the environment, but completely betrays even conservative values. Our petition against this can be found here.)
Mazda unveils its sporty new MX-30 electric vehicle at the Tokyo Auto Show, and EV lovers may be excused if they drool over it a little bit.