Push EVs

JULY 15, 2023

Overall auto volume was 280,047 units, up 24.7% YoY, still far down on the pre-2020 norm (roughly 330,000). The Tesla Model Y was the best selling BEV in June, and third best seller of any auto. Let’s see if the premium local brands can maintain these volumes of their most affordable BEVs.

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Push EVs

JULY 14, 2023

of the UK auto market, up from 21.6% Overall auto volume was 177,266 units, up some 26% YoY, but still well below pre-2020 norms. The UK auto industry body, the SMMT , refers to this as “a gloomy economic landscape”. June saw plugin EVs take 25.1% year on year. June’s combined plugin result of 25.1% comprised 17.9%

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Wallbox

JUNE 30, 2021

The accumulation of these EV tax breaks, plus the hefty 25% tax on fossil-fuel cars, means that EV models in Norway are often more affordable than fossil-fuel cars, even without the EV subsidies that are available in other countries. Additionally, 2020’s gas emissions are on track to reach lower levels than in the 1990s.

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Qnovo

MARCH 2, 2021

The result is an accelerating race to deliver electric vehicles with increasing performance, affordability, and choice. We are in the midst of deep disruption to the auto industry. In the fall of 2020, Hyundai recalled 82,000 Kona electric vehicles over risk of battery fires. Then comes battery safety!

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Clean Fleet Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

It delivered just under one million cars for the year (an 87% increase compared to 2020), so the expectation is next year with the additional plants it will easily top 1.5 Tesla has a strong lead and a loyal fan base, but in the auto industry nothing’s forever. million sales worldwide with its four current models.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 4, 2009

Within a decade, he added, Volkswagen wants to offer significant numbers of pure electric cars at affordable prices and with the range expected by customers. However, Winterkorn said, VW, and the German auto industry in general, abandoned the early advantage and work in electromobility. in pure electric vehicles in 2020.

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Plug In India

DECEMBER 30, 2020

By Kamlesh Mallick 2020. The Indian electric vehicle industry too suffered a setback during the first six months of the year. Yet, by the end of the year, there is a huge wave of optimism in the industry for the coming year. This report logs the highs and lows of the Indian EV industry for 2020. What a year!

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

This progress has kept the Program on track to meet critical path technology goals by 2015 and will enable industry to make decisions regarding commercialization of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles and fueling infrastructure in the 2020 timeframe. However, some targets and milestones relating to non-critical path technologies—e.g.,

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Cars That Think

MARCH 28, 2023

Shifting the auto industry, an apex industry supporting a host of others to meet a new knowledge economy around EVs will be no easy task.” However, shifting a 125-year-old auto industry that’s optimized for ICE-vehicle production to EVs using nascent technology is a monumental challenge in itself.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 17, 2023

The automaker has already begun idling auto plants and is warning of future closures to pay for its transition to EVs and to try to keep EV prices affordable. By some estimates , upwards to 80,000 auto workers and a similar number in the auto supply chain have already been laid off globally to support the EV transition.

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Push EVs

APRIL 6, 2023

Overall auto volumes were 182,712 units, up some 24% year on year, though still well off the pre-2020 seasonal average (~230,000 units). The Tesla Model Y was the best selling BEV, and 4th highest selling auto overall. France saw record high plugin electric vehicle share in March, at 25.4%, up from 21.4% year on year.

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EV Connect

MAY 16, 2022

While history is full of sharp left turns that took people by surprise, we still believe that electric vehicles are the future of the auto industry. For starters, EV sales increased 67% between 2019 and 2020 , the same year that overall vehicle sales fell by 16%. The future, indeed, seems electric.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 13, 2024

Customer-centricity, which took a major hit during the supply constraints in the peak of the pandemic in 2020-21, improved by leaps and bounds in CY23, and we saw the foray of technology to ensure consumer delight. That will be a revolution that India must focus on if we are committed to the EV transformation.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 7, 2023

Affordability is expected to be just one highly contentious issue: Who, exactly, is going to pay for grid upgrades? Unfortunately, between 2010 and 2020, only 18,000 miles of new transmission lines were added to the US grid. These are complex, intertwined and global issues well beyond the control of either CARB or the auto industry.”

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 23, 2023

However, until mainstream public confidence reaches the point where the perceived combination of risks of a battery electric vehicle purchase (range, affordability, reliability and behavioral changes) match that of an ICE vehicle, then EV purchases are going to be the exception rather than the norm. How much range is enough?

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Before we were saying it will be an awfully long time before we can get the costs down so people can afford it, but actually if you offset the fuel costs, people can afford it." ( Green Car Congress ). Auto-week ) 5/10/07 "Toyota Motor Corp. We can give America an affordable car that gets 100 miles per gallon.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

But with Japan mandating that 70 percent of the countrys new houses will be powered by photovoltaic solar energy by 2020, "that creates a market," McCabe notes. (It The state of Michigan, which has seen its economy decimated by the collapse of the gas-powered auto industry, is pouring incentives into the alt-car market.

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