After a slip in the previous month, in October, the European passenger plug-in market resumed its growth path (+24% year over year) via some 32,300 registrations, pulling the year-to-date count to over 300,000 deliveries (+34%). The 2018 EV market share grew to 2.3% thanks to a 2.9% share in October.
There’s a lot of excitement in the electric vehicle world these days. Tesla has come along and shown that you can produce a mass-market electric car that ranks #1 in its class (by far) and even ranks in the top 5 of all car models. This has created excitement about new frontiers — electric crossovers, electric pickup trucks, electric semi trucks, etc.
There’s nothing like experience. You can read and write about something all day, but until you experience it, it’s just a concept, and you don’t really understand it.
So, with that in mind, it is often interesting and useful to collect feedback from actual EV drivers about what they appreciate about their cars. It’s also often interesting and useful to find out the top misconceptions they discover other people have about electric cars.
Plug-in electric vehicles accounted for 7.1% of California car sales in the first three quarters of the year — fully electric car sales accounted for 4.1% and plug-in hybrids 3%. That’s a pretty big story, as the market share is well above the US average and also higher than the EV market share in almost every country on the planet.
However, the bigger story is that one brand now carries the bulk of those sales on its shoulders. That brand, of course, is Tesla.
Tesla, Tesla, Tesla, Tesla — that was the name of the game last week as far as the most popular stories on CleanTechnica. Not giant wind power projects, solar company quarterly reports, or the BMW iNext. Nope, more interesting and inspiring to readers were 7 reasons to not buy a Tesla, 8 reasons to buy a Tesla, a chart highlighting Tesla’s cash history, some rumination about Tesla buyers becoming Tesla shareholders, and a concentrated solar PV efficiency record.
Here’s the full list of the 20 most popular CleanTechnica stories last week:
We sat down with Philipp Schröder, sonnen’s Managing Director and Chief Global Sales & Marketing Officer, formerly the Country Director for Germany and Austria at Tesla.
I flew out of Tampa airport recently. To travel to Tampa from Sarasota, we chose zero-emissions transport. It was the longest experience I’ve had in a Tesla Model 3. Booking a shuttle service to the airport, I was not thinking futuristic travel. I was thinking of the time, convenience, and zero emissions. Yet, it seemed to feel the most futuristic of all my experiences in Tesla vehicles. (It was my second time in the back seat of the Model 3, and I’ve spent many times in the back seat of a Tesla Model S.)
The New York Times has described the Tesla factory in Fremont as a hotbed of racism, but its story misses the point completely.
From Tesla Summon to Nissan drama to New York EV support, here’s a rundown of notable electric vehicle news — notable changes or findings in the EV industry — during the month of November.
Moving forward with our monthly What Changed … ? feature, below is a rundown of notable solar energy news — changed in the solar industry — during the month of November.
