Toyota Invests In Perovskite Solar Cells, And The World Will Never Be The Same
The solar car of the future is already emerging, and Toyota could get a jump on the ball with new perovskite solar cells.
Toyota Prius Prime
The “Greenest” Car You Can Buy In America Is The Toyota Prius Prime SE —…
Based on overall efficiency, ACEEE rates the Toyota Prius Prime as the “greenest” car you can buy today in America.
Plug-in Hybrids: Are They Really A Solution To Reducing Emissions?
It’s immediately clear how fully-electric battery electric vehicles (BEVs) can help reduce emissions; eliminating gasoline and tailpipes in favor of increasingly clean electricity helps limit both climate change and air pollution. Plug-in hybrids are a bit more complicated. A plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (or PHEV) has both a gasoline engine and one … [continued]
Jeep Claims Wrangler 4xe Is Now The Top-Selling PHEV In The US
In its Q2 2021 press release issued on July 1, FCA/Stellantis had two statements that made me do a doubletake: Jeep Wrangler 4xe – No. 1 best-selling plug-in hybrid. Since the full launch of the Wrangler 4xe earlier this year, it quickly became the No. 1 best-selling plug-in hybrid in … [continued]
These 5 Plugin Vehicle Models Would Benefit Most From Proposed US EV Tax Credit Update…
As we reported recently, there’s a big cleantech bill moving through the US Congress that would revive, extend, and expand the zero-emission vehicle tax credit in various ways. Our friend Loren McDonald over at EVAdoption looked at the details model by model and has provided a table showing how much … [continued]
Japan Has Extremely Lame 0.7% EV Market Share
As a time when Europe has risen its EV market share among its overall auto market to about 7%, at a time when Tesla sales are blowing up in the US auto market, at a time when China is solidly maturing the EV market in its borders, Japan is playing hide & seek while hoping a fuel cell magic trick somehow produces real magic.
A Year In Review: The World Electric Vehicle Market
Global sales, growth, and market data for China, the US, and Europe
Tesla Model 3 = #1 Best Selling Electric Car in World, 7% of Global EV…
We’ve published something like a bazillion Tesla sales charts and stats. (See “30 Nasty Charts,” for example.) But this is actually a new one. Jose Pontes of EV Volumes and CleanTechnica has his 2018 tally wrapped up and it puts the Tesla Model 3 in the #1 position globally among all plug-in vehicles.
Open Letter To Toyota USA: Go All In On The Prius Prime, Kill The Regular…
Dear Toyota USA Executives,
Why do you struggle so much with what is pretty clear to many of us?
More Tesla Model 3 Sales In 2018 Than All Plug-in Hybrids Combined (USA)
Following up on my report on fully electric car sales, I was planning to write a report highlighting the year-over-year growth plug-in hybrids saw in the USA last year.
