Navigant Research in its latest report Market Data: Electric Vehicle Market Forecasts states that by 2025 it expects there will be more than 37 million of plug-in electric cars in use. The reason for a such forecast is the expected price competitiveness of the upcoming long-range electric cars against conventional models,…
9 months ago by Mark Kane 27Comments
Without surprise, the all-time best selling plug-in vehicle globally (through July 2016) is the Nissan LEAF; which at 233,500 is rapidly charging to be the first to cross the quarter million mark – via data tallied up by EV Sales Blog. We think the record breaking event would be a good opportunity to celebrate the introduction…
1 year ago by Mark Kane 39Comments
Thanks to Argonne National Laboratory (via U.S. DOE Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy), we can take a look at the progress of plug-in electric vehicles sales globally from 2011 through 2015. The overall volume of sales increased by around 80% in 2015 to over 565,000, compared to 2014. Interesting is…
2 years ago by Mark Kane 12Comments
Bloomberg New Energy Finance released a pretty bold forecast of a bright electric vehicle future. Their main statement is that by 2040 EVs (pure electric and plug-in hybrids) will take 35% market share of new car sales. That concerns global average so there sure should be places where EVs will be…
2 years ago by Mark Kane 37Comments
The numbers for 2013 are all finally in. The result? Norway is #1. For 2013, plug-in vehicles accounted for 6.1% or all passenger vehicle sales in Norway. In the #2 spot was the Netherlands at 5.55%. Three through five are as follows: Iceland: 0.94% Japan: 0.91% France: 0.83% Where does…
4 years ago by Eric Loveday 21Comments
