37% Of New Cars Sold In Netherlands Now Plugin Cars
Lynk & Co is the #1 best selling car in the overall Dutch auto market.
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Justus Visagie Sets Another EV Road Trip Record In South Africa, This Time In A…
Motoring journalist Justus Visagie has been doing road trips in electric vehicles in South Africa to show that fully electric cars can easily cover long distances in the country. Last year, he drove from Cape Town to Johannesburg in a BMW iX xDrive50 SUV in 20 hours and 17 minutes … [continued]
UK Plugins Drop Share YoY, Tesla Model Y Bestseller
The UK saw plugin electric vehicles take 22.9% share of the auto market in February 2023, down from 25.6% year on year. Overall auto volume was 74,441 units, up some 26% YoY, though still down from the ~81.000 unit seasonal norm, pre-2020. The Tesla Model Y was the UK’s best … [continued]
Minority German Party Tries To Block EU Rule To Go 100% BEV By 2035
While Volkswagen Group plans to go all electric by 2033 in the EU, some German drivers and BMW would like to keep their tailpipe polluters. After agreeing to the EU regulation to ban internal combustion light vehicles by 2035, the FDP, the smallest member of the German governing coalition, is … [continued]
Best Selling Electric Cars In The World — January 2023
The Tesla Model Y is #1 again in the electric vehicle market. Registrations were up 10% year over year (YoY) in January, to over 662,000 units. China’s market was the main driver of growth. Share-wise, 2023 started with plugin vehicles getting 11% share of the global auto market (7.6% BEV). … [continued]
100% Electric Vehicles = 10% Of New Car Sales In Europe In January
Tesla Model Y #1 in a balanced market.
US Auto Industry Down 3+ Million Sales (19%) Since 2019
The US auto industry has been declining steadily for a few years at least. Compared to 2021, the American auto industry’s annual sales were down by more than 1 million units, or 8%. Compared to 2020, they were “only” down by 725,726 units (5%). But compared to 2019, they were … [continued]
US Auto Industry Up 10% In 4th Quarter — But Down 16% Compared To Q4…
The US auto industry is truly on the rebound. In the 3rd quarter, sales increasing 1% compared to the 3rd quarter of 2021, the first positive trend in a while. But was it just a lucky little blip? Seemingly not, as US auto industry sales in the 4th quarter of … [continued]
The Battle For Germany Begins — Tesla Leads On Models & Brand, Volkswagen Group 1st…
After the subsidies-derived sales rush of December, leading to a historic performance, Germany’s plugin vehicle (PEV) market was bound to have a hangover month in January. And so it did, with this market starting the year with a 33% drop over the same month last year. The almost 40,000 units … [continued]
Netherlands Starts the Year with 15% BEV Share
China’s Lynk & Co Rules The Netherlands
