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Germany December 2020

EV Sales

The German automotive market has opened the flood gates to plugin vehicles, with December setting yet another record month, with a little less than 83,000 units, PEVs scored an amazing 27% share (14% BEV) in December, making Germany the largest PEV market outside China, beating even the USA by a wide margin (394k vs 330k).

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Plug-in Manufacturers Grow

Plug In Partners

H ere's the Mazda story thanks to Autocar: Mazda plans Volt rival Autocar August 28, 2008 Autocar has learned that Mazda engineers are hard at work trying to develop a rival to the Chevrolet Volt – a car which uses a petrol engine to charge a battery pack which powers the wheels via an electric motor.

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France February 2021

EV Sales

The last place of the podium went for the Peugeot 3008 PHEV, with 1,104 units, thus making two Peugeot's in the podium, but also securing the BEV and PHEV monthly wins, beating the Renault arch rival in both categories. (And Peugeot 208 EV beats both of them.) Regarding the plugin share, last month it reached 13% (6.3%

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Everything You Need to Know About EV Plug Types

EV Connect

Here’s how to identify the right EV plug for the three types of electric vehicles (EVs) that require a plug-in charger, namely plug-in hybrids (PHEVs), battery electric vehicles (BEVs), and cars using proprietary chargers. However, only one manufacturer in the US (BMW) currently offers a vehicle with wireless charging capability.

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VIDEO: Driving a Tesla-powered Smart

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Reply ↓ ↑ report 8 Roger Smith 3:45PM (4/25/2009) Why do they even sell the Gas ver of the car in the states the Diesel ver just makes more sense it gets almost twice the mileage of the petrol ver. I really would love to get a 120D coupe BMW u cant beat 0-60 of 7.5 o well I guess they think all yanks hate diesels. and 49 mpg.

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Greenlings: Benefits of charging stations vs. battery swaps vs. home charging

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

No single vehicle does it all even in todays petrol world. Might make sense Reply ↓ ↑ report 20 Billy 9:50AM (4/10/2009) How is battery capacity of a vehicle much different than cargo capacity? I still keep my van for those once a month cargo trips to Home Depot, etc. that my day to day car cant solve. When you need to haul.