Regarding December’s best selling electric vehicles, the big news is that thanks to a strong month in China, Tesla partly recovered from the hangover on the US market and saw its best sellers return to leading positions. The Model Y (132,327 units, down 3% YoY) won the best seller spot, … [continued]
Everyone knew US electric car sales would be down in the 4th quarter. After the $7,500 US EV tax credit was killed, the only question was how far sales would drop. I like looking for surprises, though, and trying to find out what will happen or what happened that people … [continued]
I just wrote about 4th quarter US EV sales. As expected, they don’t look great. Sales dropped a ton in the 4th quarter after Republicans killed the $7,500 US EV tax credit. However, we all know that the 3rd quarter was a blockbuster quarter for US EV sales for the … [continued]
There were over 2 million plugin vehicles registered in November, with BEVs (+12% YoY) rising and PHEVs (-1% YoY) falling. With the USA EV market still in hangover mode and China slowing down, it was up to the Rest of the World (+37% YoY) to pick up the pace, pulling … [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]
I recently dove into EV sales trends across auto groups and auto brands in 13 European markets (combined) using charts and data from EU-EVs.com. I’ve used the site off and on for years. I rely more on José’s comprehensive European EV sales reports, but there are ways of viewing data … [continued]
I was going to explore some European EV sales trends this week and ran across the following chart, which shows the 8 leading auto brands’ quarterly market share of the BEV market in 13 European countries (combined): There are three things that jumped out to me looking at that chart. … [continued]
The European Commission is preparing a legislative proposal on Clean Corporate Vehicles. This is a big opportunity to boost demand for Made-in-EU electric cars. Our analysis shows that already today, 73% of electric cars registered by companies were produced in the EU. For the private segment this was 63%. Because … [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]
Well, this is not good news. TÜV of Germany — or Technischer Überwachungsverein if you want to try your tongue at the full name — is a collection of independent German organizations that evaluate the safety and quality of a variety of products and systems. It is a widely respected … [continued]
