Author: José Pontes

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! Plugin vehicles are all the rage in the Chinese auto market, even in one of the slowest months of the year — due to the Chinese New Year celebrations — with plugins scoring 686,000 ... [continued]

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! Plugin vehicle registrations were up 18% year over year (YoY) in January, to over 1.2 million units, with BEVs being the driver of growth (+24% YoY) compared to PHEVs (+8%). Share-wise, 2025 started with ... [continued]

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! The European passenger plugin vehicle market scored 244,000 registrations in January, a progression of 18% YoY. Positively, BEVs (168,000 units, +37% YoY) continued to grow despite the drop in EV incentives in certain markets. ... [continued]

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! After the December EV sales peak in China, the year started with an expected sales slump, but it was smaller than expected. Year on year (YoY), while the overall market dropped a significant 12%, ... [continued]

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! Following up on our stories about the best selling plugin vehicles in the world and the automotive brands that sell the most plugin electric vehicles in the world, we’re now closing out the 2024 ... [continued]

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! In the last stage of the 2024 race, BYD had another record month, this time with 483,000 registrations. That doubled Tesla’s result, which nevertheless wasn’t all that bad for the US brand — at ... [continued]

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! The Tesla Model Y was #1 again, in a year that saw plugins reach 22% share of the global market. The last months of 2024 brought a record-fest for world plugin vehicle sales, and ... [continued]

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! While the overall automotive market had a (barely) positive year (+1%), December saw promising signs — it was up 4% compared to December 2023. With 13 million passenger cars registered in 2024, this was ... [continued]

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! Plugin vehicles in China once again ended the year with a record month, growing by 46% year over year (YoY) in the last month of the year to a record 1,379,000 units. Full electrics ... [continued]

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! A closer look at the best-selling PEV automotive groups — edition 4 of 4 This is the fourth and final edition of a series looking at the top selling OEMs in terms of plugin ... [continued]