January 18th, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
The Tesla Model 3 continued to hog the throne on top of the US premium-class car market at the end of 2019. For the full year, the Model 3 accounted for 23% of small and midsize luxury car sales. In other words, nearly 1 out of every 4 small or midsize luxury cars sold in 2019 was a Tesla Model
January 17th, 2020 | by Jose Pontes
The French plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) market registered a record 7,250 units in December, +28% year over year (YoY), a new all time record. That was thanks to leader Renault Zoe (2,097 units, a new year best), which seems to be past the worse of the production ramp up, and the Tesla Model 3, which moved 1,250 units, its best result ever in France. Additionally, plug-in hybrid (PHEV) sales more than doubled YoY, helping to set the record score
January 16th, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
While the Tesla Model 3 was the 9th best selling car in the country and had more than 150,000 sales in the USA, the next best selling non-Tesla on the market was the Chevy Bolt with 16,418 sales, followed by the Nissan LEAF with 12,365 sales
January 13th, 2020 | by Jesper Berggreen
The 2019 trend that led to record sales of plug-in vehicles is most certainly not going away any time soon: Denmark is jumping on the electric wagon, for real this time
January 13th, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
In 2019, 56% of Norway's vehicle sales were sales of plug-in vehicles. Fully electric vehicles (BEVs) alone collected 42% of the market, according to EV Volumes
January 12th, 2020 | by Alex Voigt
As a CEO of a large global automaker, you have a huge problem of existential dimensions. If you don’t solve it, it’s not just your job that’s lost, but you will be remembered as the person who is responsible for a century-long proud legacy ending
January 11th, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
I recently decided to take a closer look at BMW USA sales over the past 6 years in order to try to examine how much BMW was being hurt by Tesla's popularity in the United States. Part of the reason for doing that is that recent Bloomberg research highlighted BMW as the auto brand most hurt by and most vulnerable to Tesla
January 11th, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
For several years, we've considered BMW to be most at risk from Tesla's rise. The BMW brand's trademark "the ultimate driving machine" tagline got stolen away from the German automaker. (Even Edmunds went out and called the Tesla Model 3 the ultimate driving machine.) Want the most advanced driving tech? Coolest cat on the block
January 9th, 2020 | by Steve Hanley
Free Now, an app based taxi service in Europe and the UK is adding 60 electric cars to its fleet in Hamburg -- all of them from Tesla.
January 8th, 2020 | by Jose Pontes
Led by the Tesla Model 3, December had an amazing 22,983 plug-in registrations, a three-fold increase compared to the same month last year, finally beating one of the oldest records in modern EV history, the 15,879 units sold in the Netherlands in December
January 7th, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
The United Kingdom (not so united these days, but that's another story) is becoming a hot electric vehicle market, but it gets very little attention in the EV world. I'm going to postulate that's because people drive on the wrong side of the road there. (Just sayin'.)
January 7th, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
The US auto industry took a bit of a whack in 2019. Excluding Tesla, auto sales were down by 177,839 units in 2019 compared to 2018. That said, only 13 auto brands saw their sales drop, while 18 saw their sales rise
January 6th, 2020 | by Dr. Maximilian Holland
Tesla has just released short videos from inside the Shanghai Gigafactory showing many steps of the production line and manufacturing processes of the Tesla Model 3. Let's take a look
January 5th, 2020 | by Steve Hanley
BMW, Audi, and Jaguar are all touting improvements in the range of their electric SUVs, while Mercedes says it is holding the EQC back from the US market to meet demand in Europe.
January 4th, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
We may have some more high-selling blockbuster electric vehicles in 2020, but 2019 had one electric vehicle that was in a league of its own, the Tesla Model 3. Through November, the Model 3 had almost 3× the sales of the world's 2nd best selling EV, the BAIC EU-Series, and it had more than 4× the sales of the world's 2nd best selling non-Chinese
January 4th, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
Sweden probably isn't one of the first countries that come to mind when talking about electric vehicle leaders, but plug-in vehicles have a higher market share there than in almost any other country in the world. In 2019, 11% of auto sales were sales of plug-in vehicles
January 3rd, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
I get it — change is hard. It's difficult, awkward, and perhaps even annoying or frustrating to see something we love get changed. The good news about the pushback from Ford/Mustang fans regarding the Ford Mustang Mach-E: we've seen this before with Porsche and BMW, and Porsche and BMW not only survived by thrived
January 2nd, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
Being the start of a new year, it's time for a review of the most popular stories on CleanTechnica last year, and since it's actually 2020 now, I'm also going to scroll through a list of the most popular stories of the past decade here on CleanTechnica
December 28th, 2019 | by Nicolas Zart
2019 is drawing to a close, so let's take stock of a decade of green mobility progress that started with a handful of startups a decade ago
December 28th, 2019 | by Steve Hanley
The BMW i4 sedan is about 2 years away from production, but details are beginning to emerge. The new car is said to have an 80 kWh battery and an impressive 373 miles (600 km) of range in the WLTP testing cycle.
