September 2013 Plug-In Electric Vehicle Sales Report Card
Coming off the best all-time monthly result to date in August – when just over 11,000 plug-ins were sold in America, September failed to follow through on that momentum. To be fair, August’s impressive...
View ArticleOctober 2013 Plug-In Electric Vehicle Sales Report Card
After a record setting August, where over 11,000 plug-in sales blew the doors off any previous month in history, it might have been easy to consider September’s result at just over 8,000 units sold as...
View ArticleNovember 2013 Plug-In Electric Vehicle Sales Report Card
Despite a relatively muted first half of the year, electric vehicle sales have been surging since August – a record month when over 11,000 plug-ins were sold. Previous to November, the 2nd best result...
View ArticleDecember 2013 Plug-In Electric Vehicle Sales Report Card
While the year will fall just short of 100,000 plug-in vehicles sold in America, the second half growth of the industry is undeniable as nearly 40% more cars were sold between July and December – a...
View ArticleIHS: Plug-In Vehicle Sales Even Stronger Than They Seem
According to a press release put out by IHS Automotive: “Despite falling short of previous expectations, global sales of electric vehicles actually are progressing at a much faster pace than hybrid...
View ArticleIn Japan, Mitsubishi Sold Almost 1,700 Plug-in Cars In September
Mitsubishi had another strong month of Outlander PHEV sales in Japan for September after two weaker months earlier this summer. 1,450 units for Outlander PHEV plus 213 all-electric i-MiEVs (all...
View ArticleInfographic: 5 States Where Electric Car Sales Are Skyrocketing
Thanks to Forbes, we have this nifty infographic showing 5 states where electric cars sales have risen substantially in the past year (March 2013 to March 2014). The infographic specifically focuses on...
View ArticleRenault-Nissan Alliance Sells 200,000th Electric Vehicle
Renault-Nissan Alliance released today an important announcement on reaching the mark of 200,000 cumulative sales of all-electric vehicles in early November. This number comes almost 4 years after the...
View ArticleIs BMW Catching Up To Tesla?
It is very rare when one can say BMW needs to catch up to someone in the automotive segment, but when it comes to the electric vehicles market, that statement might be valid. BMW is new at the EV game...
View ArticleBREAKING: For First Time Ever, Plug-In Electric Vehicle Sales Eclipse 100,000...
In updating our monthly EV sales chart with the latest data for November 2014 (which is still in progress through Wednesday afternoon when Ford wraps up the last of the data), we noticed a 6-digit...
View ArticleThe Research Capsule Expects 5 Countries To Cross 10,000 BEV Sales in 2014
According to the most recent report released by the Research Capsule on plug-in electric vehicles (called PEVs and PHEVs), there will be just five countries in the world that will exceed the mark of...
View ArticleNovember Plug-In Electric Car Sales In Japan Down Compared to Previous Year
Japan had another weaker month in November as sales of Mitsubishi’s and Nissan’s plug-in electric vehicles fell compared to November of 2013. Nissan sold 943 LEAFs, while a year earlier it was 1,306....
View ArticlePlug-In Electric Car Sales In UK Continue To Grow – December 2nd Best Month Ever
December 2014 was the second best month ever in terms of plug-in electric car sales in the UK. 2,114 registrations (2,141 according to data in the SMMT table here) is seven times more than in December...
View ArticleInfographic: Electric Drive Sales Dashboard December 2014
Here is the Electric Drive Transportation Association’s infographic on the electric car market at the end of 2014. According to the data, 11,286 plug-in cars were sold in December, which is a lot less...
View ArticleNissan LEAF Is Best-Selling Electric Car In Europe For Fourth Straight Year...
Nissan began this week with a bold announcement that LEAF was the best selling all-electric car in Europe for the fourth year in a row. In total, 14,658 LEAFs were registered in 2014, according to...
View ArticleBMW Head Of Sales & Marketing: Cheap Gas May Kill Electric Car Sales (w/video)
BMW’s head of sales and marketing, Ian Robertson, stated yesterday at the DLD-15 conference in Munich, Germany that cheap gas will likely make electric cars even harder to sell. We know that gas prices...
View ArticleGlobal Plug-In Electric Vehicle Sales Recap 2014
Jose Pontes form the EV Sales Blog published an interesting article reviewing the year 2014 from the sales number perspective. “After a slow start, EV sales have increased greatly towards the second...
View ArticleIn 2014, One Out Of Every 8 Cars Registered In Norway Was All-Electric...
Norway ended the year 2014 with 18,017 registrations of new passenger electric cars, which is a lot more than the previous 7,845 in 2013. As you probably already know, EVs are strong in Norway and are...
View ArticleElectric Car Sales In Germany Hit New High In December 2014
December 2014 was so far the best month for plug-in car sales in Germany as a record high of 1,562 cars were registered—0.5% market share. This is almost three times higher than in December of the...
View ArticleWith Gas Prices Down, Hybrid Sales Drop, While Electric Car Sales Rise
“Cheap gas will kill sales of hybrids and electrical vehicles conventional wisdom holds, but a closer look at the numbers through November shows a more complex picture.” States the Detroit Free Press....
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