In Japan, Nissan doesn’t complain about the lack of interest in the new LEAF, as sales more than doubled year-over-year during the first five months of 2018. In May, 1,765 LEAFs were sold (up 160%) so the YTD number went up to 13,124 (with averag…
Author: Mark Kane
Renault Celebrates 100,000th Electric Motor Produced In Cléon
Renault produced its 100,000th electric motor at its Cléon plant in France. The French manufacturer has not always been using its own powertrains, as several years ago company started with powertrains supplied by Continental. “Last month, our tea…
Jaguar I-PACE Ready For Luxury Chauffeur Service
Jaguar I-PACE attracted another fleet customer. After an order of up to 20,000 units for Waymo, up to 200 will be ordered by WeKnowGroup for zero-emissions luxury chauffeur service running to and from Heathrow Airport in the UK. The service will be lau…
DoE – U.S. Plug-In Electric Cars Consumed 2 TWh Of Electricity In 2017
According to the Office Of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy, plug-in electric vehicles consumed nearly 2 TWh (2,000 GWh) of electricity last year in the U.S. The amount of electricity consumed during charging increases every year as there are m…
Electric Cars Sales Will Grow, But Electric Bus Sales To Outpace Cars
According to the latest report-forecast from Bloomberg New Energy Finance, plug-in electric cars will take the majority of sales (55% or 60 million units) by 2040. In 2017, some 1.1 million were sold (at average battery cost of $209/kWh) and this year …
This New EVI-Pro Lite Tool Makes Planning For Charging Infrastructure Easy
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) released a new the EVI-Pro Lite Tool to assist state and local governments to prepare for expansion of the charging infrastructure. The EVI-Pro Lite Tool is a simplified version of the Electric Vehicle In…
2018 May US Plug-In Electric Car Sales Charted: Market Up 48%
May 2018 became the fourth best month for plug-in electric car sales in the U.S. with healthy growth of 48%. In total, around 24,560 new plug-ins were sold, at market share above 1.5%. After the first five months of 2018, the Tesla Model 3 beginning to…
Honda Urban EV Named Best Concept Car – 2018 Car Design Award
The Honda Urban EV concept was named ‘The Best Concept Car’ in the renowned 2018 Car Design Award honors, presented as part of the Turin Motor Show. The Japanese manufacturer unveiled the Urban EV concept in Frankfurt in 2017 and announced that order b…
Jaguar I-PACE – A New World of Possibility – Videos
Jaguar enters the final phase of promoting the I-PACE before the first all-electric Jaguar hits showrooms around the world. The First units were already delivered, but this is just the beginning. Only a handful of first reservations were noted in April…
Daimler Preps Smart For Its Electric-Only Future
Smart soon will sell only the all-electric fortwo and forfour, which already happened in some markets, but the transition will not necessarily be smooth. It’s estimated that since introducing the fortwo in 1998, smart generated €4 billion ($4.6 b…