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France December 2020

EV Sales

At the bottom of this Top 20, a reference to the record 511 deliveries of the SEAT Leon PHEV, with the spicy Spaniard beating its more corporate minded cousin, the VW Golf PHEV, that ended in #21, with 501 units, that nevertheless is a new record for the German model. has struck a chord among French PHEV buyers.

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Europe December 2020

EV Sales

In December, BEVs ran fast (168.912 units, +223% YoY), but PHEVs are were even faster (+347%, 112,260 units), so in the final 2020 numbers, while plugin hybrids ended below (46% vs 54% share) fully electrics, they recovered a massive 10% share regarding the previous year. Last month Best Seller was the VW ID.3, Something to repeat in 2021?

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BYD YangWang fresh abundance EV sedan spied in China. Mercedes EQS rival

Baua Electric

The splendid YangWang emblem beneath BYD is operating on a fresh electrical sedan that can rival alternative high-end EVs comparable to Porsche Taycan, Mercedes EQS and BMW i7. As for the second one automobile, it’s an electrical supercar referred to as U9.

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China December 2020

EV Sales

Oh, and if we were to add the 3,082 units of the PHEV version, then the Han would have been 3rd, with 11,483 units, not bad for a flagship model, right? #5

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Using the PHEV (Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle) to Transition Society Seamlessly and Profitably From Fossil Fuel to 100% Renewable Energy

Green Car Congress

The PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle), a subset of the electric car, combines a primary electric motor with a much smaller back-up engine fueled with a hydrocarbon/biofuel mix. (In In this paper PHEV refers solely to the long-range PHEV of 60 miles (100 km) electric-only range.) It is much more than that.

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China February 2021

EV Sales

Another model jumping positions is SAIC's Roewe ei6 PHEV sedan, that showed up in #13 last month, thanks to 1,639 units, its best score since June 2019. Below the Top 20, a reference to the ramp-up of the BYD D1 EV, a compact MPV ( hurray for MPVs! And in good time they did it, because they had all 3 Cats in last month Top 20.

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Global Top 20 - February 2021

EV Sales

Interestingly, the other three models on the February Best Sellers list are all Chinese, with the highlight being the full-size #5 BYD Han EV, with 4.100 units (the PHEV Han had 928 units), with the big BYD now ruling the full-size category. A sign of things to come?

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