Tesla Hitting More Milestones
Of course Tesla is hitting more milestones — it’s moving forward fast, and there are always new stats that can be shared. Nonetheless, I’m a sucker for stats, so here are a few that came out of […]
Plug-in Car Sales Up 59% In May 2014 (US Sales Report)
Time for the latest US plug-in car sales update! The big winner in May was the Nissan LEAF, which set a new monthly sales record for itself and crushed the competition in May sales. Its sales […]
Mitsubishi Outlander Plug-in Dominates Sweden’s Plug-in Car Sales (April Report)
In one more Scandinavian electrified vehicle registrations report, Sweden shows its strong preference for plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, especially the beautiful Mitsubishi Outlander Plug-in, which takes the crown with a whopping 60% of the EV market. The […]
Nissan Leaf Crushes Competition In Denmark Electrified Vehicle Sales
There’s no other way to say it — the Nissan Leaf crushed the competition in Denmark in April. It accounted for 68% of all electrified vehicle registrations. The Tesla Model S was a distant #2 with 12% of the market […]
Nissan Leaf Back On Top In Norway (April Electric Car Registrations Report)
Rising to #1 yet again, the Nissan Leaf overtook the Tesla Model S last month in Norway, in terms of new electric and plug-in-hybrid-electric (PHE) car registrations. The Leaf actually topped the charts in January and February as well. […]
BMW i3 Rocks German EV Registrations Chart (March Electric Car Registrations Report)
In yet another European country, I’ve run into complications getting full registration numbers for plug-in hybrid electric cars. Unfortunately, many countries just lump gasoline/diesel and plug-in hybrid electric versions of the same model together when reporting […]
Nissan LEAF Riding High In Italy (March Electric Car Registrations Report)
Thanks to Italian site GreenStart, I’ve got some reliable March electric car registration numbers to share. Unfortunately, as with France, I have one important number missing. GreenStart collects pure-electric car registrations, but not plug-in hybrid numbers. […]
Renault Zoe Holds #1 In France (March Electric Car Registrations Report)
Following up on its top position in February, the Renault Zoe easily took #1 again in March. The Bollore Bluecar made a strong surge to take #2, rising from 0 registrations in February and 81 registrations in January to […]
BMW i3 Production Boosted To Match Demand
BMW is raising production of the i3 up from 70 vehicles a day to 100 at its factory in Leipzig in order to keep up with growing demand, according to recent reports. The production boost — […]
Sweden Has Strong Plug-in Car Sales Month, Plug-in Hybrids Still King
Thanks to a CleanTechnica reader, I now have a very reliable source for monthly plug-in car sales data from Sweden, one of the strongest plug-in car markets. The Swedish market is an interesting one, as it’s […]
Norway Has Amazing Electric Car Sales Month (March Update)
There’s a good chance you’ve heard about Tesla’s record-smashing sales in Norway in March. Well, now I’ve got the full breakdown of Norway’s electric car and plug-in hybrid electric car sales last month. (Note that you […]
Chart of Potential Tesla Models (A to Z)
This is actually sort of old, but I just ran across it and it is a lot of fun, so thought I’d share. As you can see on the chart, it’s from Jalopnik. Given that Tesla […]
Nissan Building Smaller, Cheaper LEAF For India
The Nissan LEAF is the world’s top-selling electric car. The words behind the acronym fit it — Leading, Environmentally friendly, Affordable, Family car. Many of us are waiting eagerly for another version of the LEAF, with a […]
BYD Qin Plug-in Hybrid Electric Car Is CRUSHING It In China
I shared China’s 2013 electric car sales numbers in January. The total for all models came to 6,795. “In the first weeks of 2014,” BYD reports that about 6,000 units of its new Qin plug-in hybrid […]
BMW i8 Specs
BMW i8 specs are out, demand is higher than initial planned production, and the price is still super high. The highly anticipated 2015 BMW i8 plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) is nearly here — production on the first […]