January 27th, 2020 | by Jose Pontes
The European plug-in electric vehicle market registered a record 77,000 vehicles in December (+88%!), with the Dutch market most helping to pull the market up. Fully electric vehicles (+91% year over year) grew a bit faster than plug-in hybrids (+81%), with the powertrain breakdown becoming even more friendly to fully electric vehicles (68% to 32% in December, versus 64% to 36% in 2019)
January 26th, 2020 | by Steve Hanley
Experiments in Ohio and Hamburg are designed to determine whether repurposing EV batteries for energy storage is technically and commercially viable.
January 26th, 2020 | by Jennifer Sensiba
Almost a year ago, I wrote an article about the first 40,000 miles in my Nissan LEAF. Fortunately, I continue to drive this car a lot, and can give you an idea of what to expect
January 25th, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
Uber is getting a partner to help it electrify its fleet in the London area, and Nissan is getting a partner to buy a bunch of Nissan LEAFs
January 24th, 2020 | by Johnna Crider
In a video titled "Poor Man's Autopilot," the owner of an i3 with the ability to do self-parking and adaptive cruise control explains how to mimic Tesla's Autopilot. And there are many more than this
January 21st, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
It's hard to put into perspective just how many sales the Tesla Model 3 inspires worldwide. It's sometimes hard to convey convincingly why Tesla is highlighted or mentioned on so many CleanTechnica pages. But there's one general point everyone should understand by now: the Tesla Model 3 is in a league of its own
January 19th, 2020 | by Jose Pontes
The German plug-in electric passenger vehicle market ended the year on fire, with registrations more than doubling in December, to 11,328 registrations
January 19th, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
The Netherlands got most of the press from EV fans in recent weeks and months thanks to a stunning 54% plug-in vehicle (PEV) market share at the end of 2019 and the Tesla Model 3 bagging approximately twice as many 2019 sales as the #2 Volkswagen Polo
January 19th, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
Far and away, the Swiss plug-in vehicle (PEV) leader was the Model 3, which had 29% of PEV market share. That means it had ~1.6% of the overall auto market in Switzerland all by itself, and it put the Model 3 at #4 in the overall auto market in the country, only trailing the Skoda Octavia, Volkswagen Tiguan, and Volkswagen Golf
January 19th, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
The Tesla Model 3 ended up being the 7th best selling car in the United States in the 4th quarter of 2019 and the 9th best selling car across the whole year*
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 Steve Hanley
The rumor mill is working overtime and suggesting Renault and Nissan may soon dissolve their decade-long alliance. If so, will they find other partners
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 9th, 2020 | by Kyle Field
Nissan has been quietly playing with its electric vehicle technology and brought the latest development vehicle to CES this year in Las Vegas. The Nissan e-4orce is a dual-motor electric vehicle built on top of a production right hand drive 62 kWh Nissan LEAF Plus that was built to help Nissan's electric vehicle engineers not just add a second motor to a vehicle, but to control that power in a way that maximizes all the benefits of the electric powertrain
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 8th, 2020 | by Maarten Vinkhuyzen
The Japanese justice system is not functioning on the "presumed innocent until proven guilty" principle that is the foundation of western law. Nor does it know the principle that punishment should be administered after the conviction, not before
January 8th, 2020 | by Steve Hanley
At CES 2020, Nissan showed off its Ariya electric SUV with dual motor all-wheel drive, while the CEO of Faraday Future offered rides in an FF91 prototype to the press.
