Electric Car Sales In Ireland Up 541% In 2019
New car sales in Ireland are down sharply so far in 2019 but sales of EVs and battery electric cars are surging. Here’s the latest report.
New car sales in Ireland are down sharply so far in 2019 but sales of EVs and battery electric cars are surging. Here’s the latest report.
As I wrote the other day, the Tesla Model 3 was the #1 best selling car in California in the second half of 2018, and the 4th best selling car for the whole year despite the slow start to the year. If you somehow missed that long article and all the related charts and stats, I highly recommend checking it out.
The most popular CleanTechnica stories of the past week included a gem on the entire auto industry’s Osborne effect, and electric bike … or scooter … or moped named SURU, diesel-crushing solar power in Alaska, and a bazillion Tesla stories (or something like that).
A perfect storm is brewing above the automotive industry. Three hardly grasped phenomena are working together. Just like a real storm, when the conditions align in the best/worst way, we get a devastating superstorm. These phenomena (or events) are the Osborne effect of delayed demand, the technology (cost) curve of battery prices and other technology, and the S-curve that describes market acceptance of new technologies.
China is charging full speed ahead into electric vehicles, on track to sell over 2 million EVs this year, up from 1.1 million in 2018. The rapid growth has been driven partly by policy, but increasingly by consumer demand. In part two of this three-part series (check out part one if you missed it), we’re going to look at the demand side of the EV transition in China. Why are Chinese consumers queuing up for EVs?
Traditionally, January, along with February, are the two slowest months in the Chinese plug-in vehicle market, but tradition is not what it used to be. Even with disruption hitting the Chinese automotive market (the mainstream market was down 18% last month), plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) sales were up an amazing 175% year over year (YoY), to some 96,000 registrations.
The Tesla Model 3 broke multiple records across the US and even globally in 2018, but it rose higher in California than anywhere else. In fact, the Tesla Model 3* was the #1 best selling passenger vehicle in the state in the second half of the year.
The most popular CleanTechnica stories of the past week were led by an awesome original analysis by Maximilian Holland showing that we probably had peak gasmobile sales in 2017. That was driven in part by the Tesla Model 3, which is now invading Europe and China — the second most popular story of the week.
The China EV sales count for January 2019 is in. China recorded 91,175 passenger electric vehicle sales in the month, and around 96,000 when adding on commercial vehicles sales. Meanwhile, with total vehicle sales dropping in China almost 16% year over year this January, gasmobiles continue their inevitable fall whilst EVs inexorably rise.
Long before $TSLAQ was a thing, long before $TSLA was a thing, certain critics were predicting — obsessively — Tesla’s flaming death. I’m not sure what has stimulated so much animus over the years, but the grave predictions get more humorous as the years go by.