BMW 2nd Only To Tesla In Electric Car Focus?
With Nissan being the world leader in electric car sales, and its CEO amd Chairman (Carlos Ghosn) being bullish on electric car sales for years, we often put it and Tesla at the top when it […]
Elon Musk: Tesla Stock Price Kind Of High — Putting Price Of Tesla Shares In Perspective
Even Elon Musk on a couple of occasions has basically said that Tesla (TSLA) stock is too high. One time was about a year ago when it was much lower than it is today. As he […]
BMW i3 Sales Take Off
The Nissan LEAF took the show in August, with a record-breaking sales month. However, that was almost expected based on its performance in previous months. I think the biggest positive surprise this month was the big […]
Nissan LEAF Lands Largest Sales Month Ever (EV Sales Report)
The Nissan LEAF has been crushing it this year in sales. It is far-and-away the leader in electric car sales for the year to date, sitting at 16,853 compared to the Chevy Volt’s 11,598 and the […]
Europe Electric Car Sales Up 77% In 2014
It’s hard to get European-wide numbers for electric car sales. In fact, it’s hard to get numbers for almost any country in Europe. A Norwegian electric vehicle association was publishing Norway’s numbers regularly for awhile, as was a […]
Tesla Gigafactory Infographic
The Tesla Gigafactory is one of the hottest cleantech stories of 2014, if not the hottest. Someone recently passed along a cool Tesla Gigafactory infographic that includes quite a bit of interesting info about the lithium-ion […]
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 […]
Plug-in Cars More Than Doubled In 2014
A new report by by Zentrums für Sonnenenergie- und Wasserstoff-Forschung Baden-Württemberg (ZSW), which Green Car Congress somehow ran across, shows that the number of plug-in cars on the roads more than doubled from the end of […]
Is Tesla Stock Worth $65, $320, $229, or… ?
Admittedly, this article is jumping off of an article that is ~3 weeks old, which is probably ancient in the world of investing, but I think it’s still useful and interesting for the underlying points. At […]
EV Market Share Leaders (Top Countries For EV Market Share)
I recently figured out electric vehicle market share for 17 European countries, the US, and Japan for an ABB Conversations article I wrote (full disclosure: I am compensated by ABB for articles written on that site). […]
Ranking European Countries On 2013 Electrified Car Sales
I recently wrote a long piece on ABB Conversations regarding electrified vehicle sales in 17 European countries—with a chart for each one. It was a lot of fun and very interesting, but it also made me […]
Tesla (TSLA) Stock Sets Record High On Thursday
Despite predictions to the contrary, Tesla’s stock just continues to rise. In fact, it just recently hit a new milestone of over $200 a share. The exact peak was $202.72 a share, and occurred yesterday, February […]
Nissan Leaf Is Kicking Ass In Europe
If you keep up with all the European electric car sales reports I publish, you already now that the Nissan Leaf is crushing it — in Europe as well as globally. Well, Nissan just put out […]
Tesla In Top 10 Car Brands (With Just 1 Car), According To Consumer Reports
Even though the Tesla Motors brand is only a few years old now, that doesn’t mean that the name doesn’t carry some prestige to it. After only four years on the market, the Model S has […]
Nissan Leaf Dominates In January 2014 Electric Car Sales (Charts)
Electric car sales numbers are in for the US! I’ve created a few charts below to share the big picture for January 2014 versus January 2013. However, I’m changing one huge thing this year with these […]