Green Car Congress

APRIL 18, 2020

IHS Markit is forecasting that global commercial vehicle production (GVW 4-8) volumes in 2020 compared to 2019 will be down 22% (more than 650,000 units) to 2.6 These forecasts are informed by the latest IHS Markit global economic forecast updates, which reflect a 3.0% decline in global real GDP in 2020.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 28, 2023

One looming artifact of the pandemic that remains in 2023—the global chip shortage —has gratefully begun to recede. Unlike the state of things in mid 2021—when crimps in the semiconductor supply chain cropped up in big ways—supply and demand have become much less of a mismatch. In March of 2023, the U.S.

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EV Sales

MARCH 22, 2021

This is a global challenge, to which different countries can contribute in different ways, and the big picture must be in view. Since the general auto market remained slumped, global EV market share increased nicely from 2.8% Globally ~14k Ioniq BEVs were sold. It *is* literal madness to keep doing it. in 2019 to 4% in 2020.

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