Drive Electric

APRIL 5, 2023

Since the Clean Car Discount was introduced, EV and hybrids have grown to over a third of new registrations, already saving the country over $100m a year in fuel.

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CleanTechnica EVs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Full electrics alone took over 40% of the market, with plugin hybrids almost 20%. August saw plugin EVs take over 60% share in Sweden, significantly up from 46% year on year. Overall auto volume was 23,871 units, up some 16% YoY, but still well below pre-2020 seasonal norms (typically close to 30,000). The Tesla Model […]

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CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 7, 2023

Full electrics gained share, but were outpaced by the losses in plugin hybrid share, due to recent policy changes. The auto market in Germany saw plugin EVs take 22.9% share in May 2023, down from 25.3% year on year. Overall auto volume was 246,966 units, up by some 20% YoY, though down from pre-2020 norms. […]

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CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 5, 2023

The slight dent in share came from a drop in plugin hybrid volume, against overall market growth. Norway’s plugin electric vehicles took 91.1% share of the auto market in March, down from 91.9% year on year. Overall auto volume was 19,366 units, up some 19% YoY, and the highest March sales since at least 2016 […]

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CleanTechnica EVs

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Plugin hybrid volumes grew. November saw the UK EV share at 25.7% of the auto market, down from 27.7% continued] The post UK EV Share At 25.7% – 2024 ZEV Mandate Already Shaping Market appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 1, 2021

Add this record performance to the 700,000-plus hybrids and mild hybrids registered last month (their second best month ever) and we get over 1.3 Global plugin vehicle registrations were up an impressive 153% last month compared to June 2020, scoring a record 583,000 units (or 8.7% share of the overall auto market).

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CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 3, 2022

year-on-year to over 73%, whilst plugin hybrids halved their share. Norway, the electric transport leader, saw plugin electric vehicle share of 85.1% in May 2022, up from 83.3% year-on-year. Full electrics grew their share by 1.2x Overall auto volumes were down 18% year-on-year, at 11,537 units.

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CleanTechnica EVs

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Add the 632,000 units of plugless hybrids registered in November, and we have some 22% of the overall global market having […]. Global plugin vehicle registrations were up 72% in November 2021 compared to November 2020. There were 721,000 registrations (or 11.5%

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CleanTechnica EVs

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Add the 600,000-plus units of plugless hybrids registered in October, and we have some 18% of the global overall market having some form of electrification last month, and with the […]. Global plugin vehicle registrations were up 70% in October 2021 compared to October 2020, scoring 589,000 units (or 8.8%

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CleanTechnica EVs

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

YoY, but were outweighed by a drop in plugin hybrids. Norway’s auto market saw 86.4% plugin electric vehicle share in October, down year on year, from 89.3%. Full electrics grew share by 7.5% Overall auto volumes were 12,558 units, up 8.5% YoY, and above the pre-2020 seasonal norm of 11,635 units.

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CleanTechnica EVs

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Non-hybridized combustion vehicles saw a record low of under 5.1% Norway, the world’s leading market in the electric vehicle transition, saw plugins take 91.2% share in November, up from 79.9% a year ago. share in November, with Petrol at just 2.3%

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 2, 2022

Add the 832,000 units of plugless hybrids registered […]. There were 851,000 registrations, the second best month ever, representing 15% share of the overall auto market (11% BEV share), which means that the global automotive market is entering the Electric Disruption Zone.

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CleanTechnica EVs

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The Rise & Rise of BYD In October, BYD’s record streak continued, scoring more than 200,000 registrations again, its 8th record score in a […]. We’ve looked at the top selling plugin vehicle models in the world. Let’s now take a look at the auto brands and auto groups that sell the most plugin vehicles worldwide.

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CleanTechnica EVs

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Battery electric vehicles only achieved a 5.9% penetration of the new vehicle market in Australia in August. This is 5,892 out of 100,786 total light vehicles sold. It was 6,743 in July. Perhaps it’s time to admit that there is a slowdown and a pivot to PHEVs. Strangely, the more.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

MAY 17, 2010

In China, leading automakers BYD and Chery have announced plans to roll out their own electric models within the next two years. BMW’s Mini is rolling out its electric car in three phases. predicts that pure-electric vehicles will account for more than 1 percent of the market by 2014; hybrids and plug-in hybrids, 24 percent.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 4, 2024

May’s auto sales saw plugin EVs at 53.6% share in Sweden, down YoY from 61.9%. Plugin volumes were down YoY by 24%, with BEV faring worse than PHEVs. Overall auto volume was 25,094 units, down 12% YoY. The Tesla Model Y was May’s bestselling BEV. May saw combined EVs at 53.6%. continued] The post EVs At 53.6%

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CleanTechnica EVs

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

October saw plugin EVs take 60.6% share in Sweden, up fractionally from 59.4% year on year. EV volumes were up by some 14%, barely ahead of overall market growth. Overall auto volume was 25,016 units, up by 12% year on year. The Volkswagen ID.4 4 was the bestselling EV in October. With October seeing combined EVs […]

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CleanTechnica EVs

DECEMBER 8, 2023

November saw plugin EVs take 25.7% share in Germany, down from an (anomalous pull-forward) 39.4%, year on year, and in. continued] The post EVs take 25.7% share in Germany – Policy Tides Continue appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 3, 2023

The Tesla Model Y is #1 again in the electric vehicle market. Registrations were up 10% year over year (YoY) in January, to over 662,000 units. China’s market was the main driver of growth. Share-wise, 2023 started with plugin vehicles getting 11% share of the global auto market (7.6% While this is below last […]

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 3, 2023

Norway increased its plugin electric vehicle market share to 91.1% in April 2023, up from 84.2% year-on-year. The auto market is still settling down after policy changes that came in at the start of the year. Overall auto volume was 8,976 units, down 7.7% year-on-year. The bestselling vehicle was, again, the Tesla Model Y. This […]

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 1, 2022

#TheEVFutureIsNow Yep, the EV disruption many of us were dreaming of for years is finally happening, and the proof is that despite all the stuff happening right now — pandemic(s), war, inflation, material shortages, etc., imagine telling what happened in the past two years to our past selves of June 2020 — they would […].

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CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 28, 2022

Global plugin vehicle registrations were up 55% in May 2022 compared to May 2021. With the China covid lockdown effects easing, sales have recovered most of their previous pace, reaching 699,000 registrations last month. That represents 12% share of the overall auto market (8.6% BEV share).

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CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Global plugin vehicle registrations were up 114% in August 2021 compared to August 2020, scoring 516,000 units (or 7.7% share of the overall auto market). That made it the plugin market’s third best month ever, and expect September to be another record month.

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CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 23, 2021

Plugin electric vehicles are a hot item in China right now, and they scored a near-record 211,000 registrations last month. That was a 244% jump compared to the same month last year, making it the second best month ever, only behind last December. Last month’s plugin vehicle share actually reached the two-digit mark for the […].

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CleanTechnica EVs

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Plugin vehicles are all the rage in China, having scored a record 413,000 registrations in November, up 106% year over year (YoY). This pulls the year-to-date (YTD) tally to over to 2.7 million units, and with December set to be another record month (half a million units?), we should have over 3 million registrations by […].

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CleanTechnica EVs

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Plugin vehicles are all the rage in China, having scored 325,000 registrations in October, up 113% year over year (YoY). That’s an especially impressive performance when we consider that the overall market was down 5%. This pulls the year-to-date (YTD) tally to over to 2.3

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CleanTechnica EVs

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

Plugin vehicles are all the rage in China, having scored 286,000 registrations in August, a full 22% increase over the previous record, which was set in June when 235,000 registrations were made. That pulls the year-to-date (YTD) tally to 1.6 million units, and with further record months set to happen until December, we should have […].

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CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The last months of 2022 brought a record-fest for world plugin vehicle sales, with 3 months out of the last 4 setting new sales records. December was one of them, with over 1,200,000 registrations. With plugin registrations jumping in 2022 an impressive 55% compared to the previous year, this year ended with the plugin market […]

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CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 5, 2022

World EV sales continue to grow fast around the world. January kept the trend going, or even increased it. Tesla Model Y New #1 in Hot Market Registrations were up 87% year over year (YoY) in January, to over 603,000 units. China’s market was the main driver of growth, as we can see on the […].

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 31, 2021

Global plugin vehicle registrations were up 94% last month compared to July 2020, scoring 480,000 units (or 7.1% share of the overall auto market). That made it the plugin market’s third best month ever. Fully electric vehicles (BEVs) represented 66% of plugin registrations in July, in line with the year-to-date (YTD) tally.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 30, 2021

Global plugin vehicle registrations were up an impressive 199% last month compared to May 2020, to some 442,000 units (or 6.6% share of the overall auto market). That was the industry’s 3rd best month ever. Fully electric vehicles (BEVs) jumped 190%, to some 295,000 registrations (or 4.4% We should be seeing the plugin vehicle […].

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 18, 2021

Plugin vehicles continue to see record or near-record levels in China, having scored 231,000 registrations in July, only 4,000 fewer than the record set in the previous month of June, when 235,000 registrations were made. That pulls the year-to-date (YTD) tally to 1.3 million units, which is already more than this market had in the […].

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CleanTechnica EVs

JULY 23, 2021

Plugins are on fire in China, having scored a record 235,000 registrations last month, pulling the year-to-date (YTD) tally to 1.1 million units, a far cry from the 360,000 units that this market had 12 months ago. Share-wise, June also witnessed a record month, hitting 15% (12% full electrics/BEVs). This pulled the 2021 share to […].

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CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 23, 2021

Plugins are a hot item in China, having scored over 190,000 registrations last month and jumping 146% compared to the same month last year, with BEVs in particular growing even faster, at a 153% growth rate.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 4, 2022

Global plugin vehicle registrations were up 38% in April 2022 compared to April 2021. Despite several disturbing factors happening all at once (the invasion of Ukraine, Covid-19 lockdowns in China, chip and battery shortages, supply chain disruptions …), the truth is that there were 542,000 registrations last month, representing 10.2%

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 26, 2021

Plugin vehicles are a hot item in China, having scored over 175,000 registrations last month. That was a 173% jump compared to the same month last year, with BEVs in particular growing at an amazing 204% rate. April was the second month in a row that the plugin share reached the two-digit mark, hitting 10% […].

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CleanTechnica EVs

JANUARY 4, 2023

Norway’s auto market saw plugin EV volume explode to take 87.6% share in December, with huge numbers of BEVs registered, and overall auto volumes double those of seasonal norms. The freak volume in December 2022 resulted from one-off pull-forward effects ahead of new policies and auto taxes applying from 2023 onwards.

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