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New car registrations: -1.9 percent in H1 2025; battery-electric 15.6 percent market share
With a strong 7.3 percent year-on-year (YOY) decline for June, also indicative of the challenging global economic environment for auto makers. The battery-electric car market share for H1 2025 stood at 15.6 percent, still far from where it needs to…
Electric BMW iX1 – Orders Available from November
The entry model into the world of BMW X is now more appealing than ever. In its third model generation, the new BMW X1 boasts a more prominent design, superior spaciousness, advanced digitalization – and, for the first time, an…
Global Electric Car Sales Have Continued Their Strong Growth in 2022 After Breaking Records Last Year
Electric car sales powered through 2021 and have remained strong so far in 2022, but ensuring future growth will demand greater efforts to diversify battery manufacturing and critical mineral supplies to reduce the risks of bottlenecks and price rises, according…
Mercedes-Benz Targets Carbon Neutral Fleet by 2039
Mercedes-Benz has set a target to ensure its new passenger car fleet is carbon neutral by 2039. It has also committed to ensure plug-in hybrids or all-electric vehicles (EVs) make up more than 50% of its car sales by 2030…
China Will Delay its Electric Car Mandate until 2019
German newspaper Handelsblattr is reporting that a meeting between German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Chinese premier Li Keqiang in Berlin on Thursday led to an important new agreement regarding electric car sales in China. Last September, the Chinese government proposed…
January 2017 Electric Vehicle Sales Figures For Japan
The Japanese electric vehicle market is comprised almost entirely of Japanese auto manufacturers (unsurprisingly), which makes the market an interesting contrast to free-for-all markets like the US. The Nissan LEAF has over the past few years more or less dominated…
What can we learn from electric-car owners in Norway (more than 100K of them)?
Thanks to a combination of government incentives and public enthusiasm, electric cars make up a higher portion of new-car sales in Norway than in any other country. As of May, there were more than 105,000 plug-in electric cars registered in…