CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Electric vehicle adoption is jumping in countries around the world, but perhaps no more quickly than in Europe’s wealthier northerly nations. Along with higher EV sales comes the need for more EV charging, and we’ve got some more good news in that regard here again.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Little by little, this saying is becoming true for Tesla Sweden. Faced with the escalating tactics of trade union IF Metall, the electric vehicle maker has resorted to using rather creative strategies to ensure that it could still deliver vehicles to customers. It is said that necessity is the mother of invention.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 11, 2024

One of these expelled members, who currently works as a mechanic for Tesla Sweden, recently shared his thoughts about the conflict between his employer and the union. In a conversation with Dagens Arbete (DA) , the Tesla Sweden employee, who wished to remain anonymous, stated that worker conditions in the electric vehicle maker are good.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Tesla Sweden nabbed a small win recently in its Postnord lawsuit. Tesla filed a lawsuit against Postnord for failing to deliver license plates for new electric vehicles meant for customers in Sweden. The district court gave Tesla the right to retrieve new vehicle license plates from Postnord’s Danderyd facility.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Darko Davidovic is one of the key players in the ongoing union strike against Tesla in Sweden. Davidovic serves as the IF Metall union’s federal lawyer, and he has overtly criticized the electric vehicle maker for its lack of collective agreement. Don’t hesitate to contact us with news tips.

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Electrek

JANUARY 2, 2024

It’s no surprise that Norway is leading the world in EV adoption, but 2023 saw the country reach new heights with electric vehicles taking a record 82% market share, and Tesla with a whopping 20% market share.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 23, 2024

Back in November, Swedish Trade Union Confederation (LO) Chairperson Susanna Gideonsson was asked if the LO was prepared to escalate its battle against electric vehicle maker Tesla to the point where the company is driven out of Sweden. LO is an umbrella organization that covers 14 unions in Sweden, one of which is IF Metall.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 21, 2024

Tesla Sweden is dealing not just with trade union IF Metall’s strikes. One of these sympathy strikes involved Transport workers refusing to pick up garbage from the electric vehicle maker’s locations starting December 29, 2023. Tesla Sweden has not issued a comment about the matter.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Earlier this week, Tesla Sweden management issued a comment about the ongoing strike against the company, which has been escalating as of late. This was the first time that the electric vehicle maker formally addressed the ongoing protests. Tesla responded by finding alternative ways to get its cars into Sweden.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

The Confederation of Swedish Enterprise (Swedish Enterprise), an employers’ organization, has expressed concerns that the ongoing strike and blockades being implemented against Tesla in Sweden may give bad publicity to the country. Tesla’s electric vehicles are part of Swedish Enterprise’s company car program.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 22, 2024

Amidst the ongoing conflict between Tesla Sweden and trade union IF Metall, the electric vehicle maker’s employees are expressing their overall sentiments through an old-fashioned but effective strategy. IF Metall’s protests against Tesla Sweden were triggered by the electric vehicle maker’s lack of a collective agreement.

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Electric Cars Report

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Chinese electric vehicle maker BYD has been awarded a substantial eBus order from public transport operator, Transdev AB, in Sweden. The order for 52 BYD electric buses is the largest order that Transdev has placed with BYD for electric buses since 2015 when it first introduced the BYD brand to its fleet.

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Electric Cars Report

AUGUST 5, 2022

China’s largest electrified-vehicle manufacturer, BYD Auto, has selected major European dealer Hedin Mobility Group to distribute its electric vehicles, as well as providing aftersales services, in Germany and Sweden.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Tesla Sweden suffered a loss at the court of appeals recently, which ruled that the Texas-based automaker cannot pick up new car license plates from courier Postnord. Despite the loophole, Tesla Sweden still needs help to get license plates for car deliveries that customers expect to receive.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 5, 2021

BYD keeps rolling out more and more electric buses, especially in Europe. This week, the news is that it just delivered 30 more electric buses in Spain and got an order for 79 electric buses in Sweden.

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 19, 2021

That’s the big news out of Sweden today, as joint venture HYBRIT — a joint venture between SSAB, the state-owned utility, Vattenfall, and mining company LKAB — announced its aim to revolutionize a steel industry that, by some estimates, […].

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CleanTechnica EVs

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Recent posts on cleantechnica.com reveal that the Toyota EV is at number 20 in Sweden (130 units) and number 5 in Norway (402 units). Good news for Toyota. The Toyota BZ4X is starting to appear in the top 20 charts in reports from Scandanavia. Every night on the tele, we see ads for the fully […]

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 2, 2024

Photo by Lukas Kloeppel on Pexels.com It’s no surprise that Norway is leading the world in EV adoption, but 2023 saw the country reach new heights with electric vehicles taking a record 82% market share, and Tesla with a whopping 20% market share. Meanwhile, in Sweden, Tesla market share in Sweden grew by a more modest 6.1%

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Teslarati

APRIL 9, 2024

During a recent X Spaces session with Nicolai Tangen , the Chief Executive Officer at Norges Bank Investment Management, Elon Musk shared his thoughts on the ongoing conflict between Tesla Sweden and trade union IF Metall. As per Musk, he remains optimistic about Tesla Sweden’s future. I feel good about the future.

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Tesla’s massive deal with Hertz to add 100,000 Model 3 electric vehicles to its fleet will not take effect in Sweden, according to the company. Hertz Sweden will not include Model 3 vehicles, according to Cecilia Saberi, the company’s communication manager in the country. 3, and the Skoda Enyaq.

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Teslarati

APRIL 3, 2024

Tesla Sweden may still be seeing challenges due to trade union IF Metall’s strike , but the electric vehicle maker is still posting some impressive numbers in the country. The Model Y’s year-to-date sales in Sweden do not show a steep drop, as it is only 0.7% Don’t hesitate to contact us with news tips.

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Push EVs

MAY 8, 2023

Sweden’s plugin electric vehicle share reached 55.7% Full electrics grew share strongly, whilst plugin hybrids lost share slightly. The bestselling full electric vehicle was the Volvo XC40. Sweden’s HEV share dropped YoY from 11.5% There was no other news about BEV newcomers.

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Push EVs

JUNE 14, 2023

Plugin electric vehicles saw strong year on year growth in market share in Sweden, taking 61.9% Full electrics carried all of the growth, alone accounting for 40.9% Interestingly, the MG5 estate/tourer is actually selling at even more volume than the MG4 in Sweden. There was no other significant news in the top 20.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Despite having one of its hands tied behind its back due to ongoing protests and strikes from trade union IF Metall and its allies, Tesla Sweden performed admirably in 2023. As per data from Sweden-based automotive statistics firm Car.info Sweden, Tesla saw a 120% increase in its sales and market share in 2023. Yay Sweden !!

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Teslarati

JANUARY 9, 2024

German automaker Volkswagen has reported its full-year 2023 delivery numbers, featuring more deliveries of battery electric vehicles (BEVs) than ever before. the United Kingdom, Sweden, France, Norway and Belgium. Volkswagen to offer ChatGPT in its vehicles starting this year What are your thoughts? 4 units for a 62.9

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Teslarati

AUGUST 3, 2022

Volvo Group has announced today that it will build a “large-scale” battery manufacturing facility in Sweden that will help to “meet the growing demand for battery electric heavy-duty vehicles and machines.” ” The location of the plant is yet to be determined, the Göteborg-based Volvo said.

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Teslarati

APRIL 11, 2024

Tesla investor KLP, Norway’s largest pension company, is considering the idea of filing a shareholder proposal to address Elon Musk’s reluctance to engage in collective bargaining at the electric vehicle maker’s 2024 annual shareholder meeting. Nevertheless, Musk noted that he remains optimistic about Sweden. “I

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CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

The week ended with a bang rather than a whimper this week, with some hot EV news pouring out on Friday, including XPeng expanding into the Netherlands and Sweden. We already covered some of the other biggest stories, but there are several more below. There are also some good ones from recent days that we […].

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The effects of trade union IF Metall’s strike against Tesla Sweden seem to be rippling outward. As per recent reports, Danish dockworkers and truck drivers have reportedly halted unloading and transporting Teslas that are bound for Sweden. This was due to Danish labor union 3F Transport’s sympathy strike against Tesla Sweden.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Other unions in the region have also taken similar steps , and unfortunately, it appears more organizations are continuing to pressure Tesla into signing a collective bargaining agreement that would cover 90 percent of all employees in Sweden. Luckily, some of the strikes have softened. I’d love to hear from you!

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Electrek

AUGUST 23, 2021

Welcome one and all back to the Electric Vehicle Spotlight (EVS) , where we at Electrek shine a light on specific companies bringing exciting new innovations and strategies to the world of electrified transport. Our latest EVS is on Opibus, a company headquartered in Kenya that was born out of a research project in Sweden.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

Tesla’s January through October sales of the Model Y have a strong lead over the close competitor, the Dacia Sandero, according to data from Dataforce (via Automotive News Europe ). If it comes to pass, the news would mark the first time an electric vehicle (EV) topped European sales charts for an entire calendar year.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 30, 2024

The NBIM’s stance in December was seen by Tesla skeptics as a sign that the fund may be stepping back from its support of the electric vehicle maker. As per a recent report from Bloomberg News , however, the NBIM actually boosted its holdings in Tesla last year. Don’t hesitate to contact us with news tips.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 3, 2024

Tesla China is preparing to export a massive amount of electric vehicles to customers abroad, kicking off 2024 with a bang. Resident drone operator for all things Tesla China, WuWa, recently uploaded a video showing all the electric vehicles from Giga Shanghai preparing for export. “We

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 15, 2021

April sales figures are in for electric vehicle models in 10 European countries — Norway, the Netherlands, Spain, France, Germany, Switzerland, Finland, Ireland, Sweden, Denmark. The biggest news in April was that the […].

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Just a few days ago, one of Denmark’s largest unions, 3F, announced that it would be initiating a sympathy strike against Tesla over the electric vehicle maker’s lack of a collective agreement in Sweden. Tesla CEO Elon Musk, for his part, has not shown any signs that he is willing to strike a deal with IF Metall in Sweden.

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Innovation News Network

JULY 18, 2022

The Norra Kärr region in Sweden is home to mainland Europe’s largest defined heavy rare earth mineral deposit. The number of electric vehicles on our roads is […]. The number of electric vehicles on our roads is […]. The transition to sustainable energy systems is taking place.

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