Rising sales for BEVs and PHEVs built in China

China’s electric car manufacturers recorded rising sales figures for electric cars and plug-in hybrids in August. BYD surpassed the 60,000 new electric vehicle (NEV) sales mark for the first time. By comparison, Tesla sold 44,264 of its vehicles manufactured in China last month. According to the China Passenger Car Association (CPCA), the sales volume of […]

Daimler is done with plug-in hybrids

Daimler’s focus on battery-electric vehicles also has an impact on plug-in hybrids. The Stuttgart-based carmaker is no longer planning any new developments here. Suppliers such as ZF, however, assess the future of PHEVs differently. Since only purely electrically powered cars are to be sold under the Mercedes-Benz brand by the end of the decade reportedly, […]

Norway marks 11,811 new EV registrations in August

In Norway, 11,811 new electric cars were registered in August. The share of electric cars in new passenger car registrations was 71.9 per cent last month. Norway’s most successful model across all drive types in August was the Tesla Model Y with 1,308 new registrations. Compared to August 2020 (5,704 new registrations), the 11,811 electric […]

Mercedes presents first performance PHEV

With the Mercedes-AMG GT 63 S E Performance, Daimler has presented its first high-performance plug-in hybrid. The vehicle has a system output of 620 kW – the purely electric range, however, is just twelve kilometres. The German carmaker announced at the end of March that the Mercedes Performance subsidiary AMG was working on an independent […]