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Over 200,000 Pure Electric Vehicles to hit UK roads in 2021

Drive Electric

We use our own model built from intelligence of the UK market to forecast registrations of battery electric cars and vans. Jaguar Land Rover may have challenges due to having no lower price EV models to sell; £70,000+ sales are hard to come by in tough economic times. The figure does not include plug-in hybrids (PHEVs).

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GlobalData: Coronavirus leads to nosedive in global vehicle sales with lowest January registrations since 2012

Green Car Congress

There was barely anybody at car dealers in the first week of February as most people stayed at home. This means China’s latest sales figures will be a significant cause for concern for these companies, potentially requiring them to scale back revenue and profit forecasts. —Mike Vousden.

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As Electric Car Makers Ante Up Billions, Software Is Ace in the Hole

Cars That Think

Vehicles as cyber-physical systems are not mere self-contained and isolated entities but are ones that will evolve in capability over a decade or more often in response to other evolving systems such as transportation infrastructure, manufacturer monitoring or dealer management systems, the Internet, and other vehicles.