Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2021

The BMW Group and Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) announced an expanded partnership that further leverages renewable energy to sustainably power electric vehicles (EVs). A smart-charging plugin hybrid can integrate more renewable energy than a normal-charging all-battery electric vehicle, despite the smaller battery size.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The French plugin vehicle market took its usual holiday in August, with last month’s plugin registrations ending at 17,404 units, divided between 9,916 BEVs and 7,488 PHEVs. The former jumped 78% year over year (YoY), while the latter were up 42%. In isolation, these numbers might sound meh.

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CleanTechnica EVs

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Following up our report on the top selling electric vehicle models in Europe, here’s a report on the auto brands and auto groups selling the most plugin vehicles in Europe.

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JUNE 28, 2024

Tesla #1 and #2 Lead in PHEV-Heavy Market After previously checking out Spain, we turn west, to its Iberian neighbor, Portugal, for a new EV sales report. continued] The post Portugal Has 28% Plugin Vehicle Share — Market Share Report appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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JUNE 11, 2022

Chinese Lynk & Co 01 PHEV #1 in May In the context of a falling overall market, down 7% year over year (YoY) in May, the Dutch plugin vehicle (PEV) market has continued to grow, reaching 32% last month. That’s mostly thanks to pure electrics (21% of all new vehicle sales), which jumped 48% year […].

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AUGUST 5, 2022

The UK auto market saw plugin electric vehicles take 16.7% BEV share grew, but not enough to outweigh PHEVs’ lower share. share in July, down from 17.1% year on year. Overall auto volumes were down 9% YoY, to 112,162, the lowest July in over 16 years. Hyundai was the leading brand in UK BEV sales […].

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APRIL 11, 2023

Germany’s plugin electric vehicles took 21.6% BEV grew share slightly, but PHEVs lost half their share YoY, due to recent policy changes. March’s combined plugin […] of the auto market in March, down from 25.6% year on year.

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AUGUST 7, 2024

EVs Now 22% of World Auto Sales Global plugin vehicle registrations were up 15% in June 2024 compared to June 2023. BEVs were up by just 4% YoY, but plugin hybrids jumped 41% YoY, selling over 500,000 units, a new record. In the end, plugins. continued] The post Global EV Sales — 2nd Best Month Ever for Plugins!

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AUGUST 31, 2021

Global plugin vehicle registrations were up 94% last month compared to July 2020, scoring 480,000 units (or 7.1% 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. In total, there […].

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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. Last month’s plugin vehicle share actually reached the two-digit mark for the […].

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NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The German plugin vehicle market scored over 54,000 registrations last month, a 12% improvement year over year (YoY), an impressive performance considering the overall market crashed 35%. As a result, last month’s plugin share ended at 30% (17% BEV).

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JUNE 7, 2023

The auto market in Germany saw plugin EVs take 22.9% Full electrics gained share, but were outpaced by the losses in plugin hybrid share, due to recent policy changes. 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

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Global plugin vehicle registrations were up 114% in August 2021 compared to August 2020, scoring 516,000 units (or 7.7% That made it the plugin market’s third best month ever, and expect September to be another record month. Fully electric vehicles (BEVs) represented 71% of plugin registrations in August, slightly […].

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Plugin vehicles are all the rage in the Chinese auto market. Plugins scored over 658,000 sales last month, up 31% year over year (YoY). Share-wise, with July showing another great performance, plugin vehicles hit 38% market share! That pulled the year-to-date (YTD) tally to over 3.9 million units.

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OCTOBER 1, 2023

Plugin vehicles are all the rage in the Chinese auto market. Plugins scored over 750,000 sales last month, up 36% year over year (YoY) and a new record. Share-wise, with August showing another great performance, plugin vehicles hit 39% market share! That pulled the year-to-date (YTD) tally to over 4.6 million units.

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AUGUST 24, 2022

The overall European car market is still in the red, and the European passenger plugin vehicle market has also started to get affected. It was down 5% last month, with approximately 157,000 plugin vehicles registered in July. Looking closer, plugin hybrids (-25% YoY) were the ones to blame for sinking plugins into the red.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2025

After a massive 2024 that made BYD Group the 7th best selling auto group in the world, the company is starting 2025 super strong. As a reminder, all of those vehicles are plugin vehicles (or “new. The company’s passenger vehicle sales jumped 47.47% in January 2025 compared to January 2024.

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OCTOBER 15, 2023

In the Netherlands, 47% of new car sales were plugin car sales in September. The Netherlands saw an increase in plugin registrations to 13,916 units in September, with the Dutch plugin vehicle (PEV) market thus reaching 47% of the overall auto market last month. Furthermore, 34% were full electrics!

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AUGUST 14, 2021

The German plugin vehicle market scored over 55,000 registrations last month, with both plugin powertrains slowing down their growth (+52% year over year for BEVs and +58% year over year for PHEVs, compared with 185% and 182% respectively in the 2021 tally).

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DECEMBER 5, 2022

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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SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

The European passenger plugin vehicle market is staying in the fast lane. More than 155,000 plugin vehicles were registered in August — which is +60% year over year (YoY). This performance is even more impressive when we consider that the overall auto market is in the doldrums.

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JANUARY 20, 2022

36% plugin vehicle share in December! The German automotive market has opened the gates to plugin vehicles, with December close to setting a record month, ending some 1,000 units below December 2020 with 81,188 registrations.

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JUNE 2, 2025

We have positive news from Europe, with some 282,000 plugin vehicles being registered in Europe in April, jumping 28% year over year (YoY), or 33% if we exclude a falling Tesla. * If we exclude a cratering Tesla (-50% YoY). This is their biggest growth rate since August 2023, which. appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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MAY 31, 2023

Plugin vehicles are all the rage in the Chinese auto market. Plugins scored over half a million sales last month, up 93% year over year (YoY). Share-wise, with April showing another great performance, plugin vehicles hit 35% market share! That pulled the year-to-date (YTD) tally to over 1.9 million units.

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MARCH 26, 2022

Plugin vehicles are all the rage in the Chinese auto market. Even in the slowest month of the year, plugins scored 291,000 registrations, up 176% year over year (YoY). This pulls the year-to-date (YTD) tally to over 665,000 units, and with March set to be another strong month (400,000 units?),

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OCTOBER 15, 2021

The German plugin vehicle market scored over 56,000 registrations last month, a 36% improvement year over year (YoY), an amazing performance, especially considering the overall market was down 26%. As a result, last month’s plugin share ended at 29% (17% BEV).

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JANUARY 19, 2022

December was the second best month ever in the Dutch market for plugin vehicle sales, with 23,150 plugin registrations. The top 10 vehicles in the Netherlands in December in terms of registrations were all 100% electric vehicles.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 16, 2021

The French plugin vehicle market continues in the fast lane, with April’s plugin share reaching 15% (6.8% That keeps the year-to-date (YTD) share at a record 14% (6.9% BEV), which is a 3% increase over the 2020 result (11%). The 20% share I predicted for the whole of this year looks on target. Interestingly, […].

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NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The UK, Europe’s third largest auto market, saw plugin electric vehicle share hit a new high of 23.1% year-on-year, with two thirds of plugin share coming from full electrics. in October, up 1.9x October’s overall auto market volume was down almost 25% from last year, at the lowest level since 1991.

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CleanTechnica EVs

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The UK auto market saw plugin electric vehicles take 27.7% Full electric share grew YoY, but was outweighed by plugin hybrids’ decline. share in November, down from 28.1% year on year. Overall auto volumes were up over 23% YoY, to 142,889 units, though still almost 9% down on 2019 seasonal levels. The Tesla Model Y […].

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APRIL 2, 2022

Norway, the leading nation for EV adoption, saw plugin autos take a market share of 91.94% in March, with 86.1% March’s combined plugin result of 91.9% being full battery electrics. Overall auto market volume was 16,238 units, some 6% up year-on-year. Tesla’s Model Y took the top spot in March.

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DECEMBER 16, 2021

These are truly historic times in the German automotive market, with the plugin vehicle market now owning one third of the total market in terms of new sales. With the chip crisis still raging, disruption is the order of the day, and one can say that anything goes right now in Germany, an automotive market […].

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NOVEMBER 15, 2023

In the Netherlands, 42% of new car sales were plugin car sales in October. continued] The post 42% Of New Cars In Netherlands Now Plugin Cars! Furthermore, 29% were full electrics! appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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JANUARY 7, 2022

The UK auto market saw plugin electric vehicles take one-third share of the auto market in December, up from 23.4% a year ago. Over a quarter of all auto sales were full battery electric vehicles. Tesla made a large push in December, making the Model 3 the 2nd best selling vehicle (of any powertrain) in […].

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JULY 25, 2021

The European passenger plugin vehicle market continues in the fast lane, having gotten over 237,000 registrations in June and over a million registrations YTD — which is +157% year over year (YoY).

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Although, with an energy-derived recession looming on the horizon, this uptick might not last for long… Looking at the plugin vehicle market in […]. It was only by 3%, but it signals that the worst of the production constraints might be over.

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MAY 1, 2023

Plugin vehicles are all the rage in the Chinese auto market. Plugins scored over half a million sales last month, up 23% year over year (YoY), pulling the year-to-date (YTD) tally to over 1.3 Share-wise, with March showing another great performance, plugin vehicles hit 34% market share! million units.

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