Will the Chinese use Canada as their North American beachhead? This story has been updated with additional details and recalculation of the forecasts. As Chinese electric vehicle manufacturers look beyond Europe and Southeast Asia, Canada is quietly emerging as the most realistic entry point into North America. It combines stringent … [continued]
BEVs represented 35% of the total Chinese car market in December. We saw plugins score another million-plus sales in December, reaching a record 1.34 million units (in a 2.26-million-unit overall market, down a harsh 14% YoY). Last month’s result put plugin vehicles’ market share at 59%, with BEVs reaching 35% … [continued]
Our sources are once again proven reliable. In our earlier exclusive a few days before the news broke globally, we spoke of how China’s automobile and industry organizations were pushing (caressing) the Canadian government to reduce EV tariffs so that they could export their EVs to Canada. EV makers in … [continued]
After publishing our report on the top selling EV models in the world in November, here’s the complementary report on the auto brands and groups leading EV sales around the world. Chinese records edition In November, BYD remained at the helm, but sales were again down YoY, as BYD’s plugin … [continued]
BEVs represented 37% of the total Chinese car market in November. We saw plugins score another million-plus sales in November (1.3 million plugins in a 2.2-million-unit overall market, down 8% YoY), but growth has been slowing down, with November showing only a 4% increase over November 2025. Digging deeper into … [continued]
There were over 1.9 million plugin vehicles registered in October, with BEVs (+19% YoY) rising and PHEVs (-5% YoY) falling. Despite the expected hangover in the US market, down almost 50% YoY in October, global plugin vehicle registrations were up 10% compared to October 2024. With the USA market in … [continued]
Pioneer Trucks Philippines announced at the 13th Philippine Electric Vehicle Summit (PEVS) that it has become the exclusive distributor of Maxus commercial trucks in the country, taking over a brand that the Ayala Group abandoned just three months earlier. Maxus first entered the Philippines in 2019 through AC Industrials, the … [continued]
There were 1.6 million plugin vehicles registered worldwide in July. Global plugin vehicle registrations were up 19% in July 2025 compared to July 2024. There were over 1.6 million registrations. BEVs grew 31% YoY to over 1 million units, while plugin hybrids were up by just 2% to around 600,000 … [continued]
Tesla dominates headlines. BYD gets the analysis articles. BMW and Mercedes fight for luxury coverage. Meanwhile, three Indian companies have been selling electric cars by the thousands, and most people outside India have never heard of them. The numbers are straightforward. They aren’t yet in the millions, like Tesla or … [continued]
Yes, story after story is coming out about the progress, innovations, and milestones being set by Chinese electric vehicle producers. That’s what happens when a country the size of China has reached more than 50% plugin vehicle market share. Actually, that achievement could stand for two things. Plugin vehicles account … [continued]
