José Pontes, Author at CleanTechnica

Portugal Has 28% Plugin Vehicle Share — Market Share Report

José Pontes — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 14:26:55 +0000

Tesla #1 and #2 Lead in PHEV-Heavy Market After previously checking out Spain, we turn west, to its Iberian neighbor, Portugal, for a new EV sales report. As a Southern European market with low purchase power, one would think that this would be another market lingering in the back of ... [continued]

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47% of New Cars Sold in Netherlands in 2024 Have a Plug!

José Pontes — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 22:46:44 +0000

In a negative month in the overall market (down 14% to 28,361 units), May saw plugin registrations also drop by 13% YoY, to 13,174 units. As a result, the Dutch plugin vehicle (PEV) market reached 47% last month, in line with the year-to-date average. That’s mostly thanks to pure electrics ... [continued]

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What Falling Sales? Global EV Sales Grow 25% in April!

José Pontes — Sun, 09 Jun 2024 02:47:52 +0000

EVs Now 18% of World Auto Sales Global plugin vehicle registrations were up 25% in April 2024 compared to April 2023. There were 1.2 million registrations. BEVs were up by 14% YoY, while plugin hybrids jumped 51% YoY. In the end, plugins represented 18% share of the overall auto market ... [continued]

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Volvo EX30 Ends April in 2nd Place — Europe EV Sales Report

José Pontes — Thu, 30 May 2024 01:39:36 +0000

In the meantime, Volkswagen is starting to recover its mojo. Some 219,000 plugin vehicles were registered in Europe in April, which is up 11% year over year (YoY). And while Tesla isn’t helping (in fact, Tesla’s deliveries were down 2% YoY in April), the plugin tally from Volvo, Volkswagen, and ... [continued]

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44% Plugin Vehicle Market Share In China — April 2024 Sales Report

José Pontes — Mon, 27 May 2024 01:26:58 +0000

Plugin vehicles are all the rage in the Chinese auto market, with plugins scoring 703,000 sales (in a 1.6-million-unit overall market). That’s up 27% year over year (YoY). Looking deeper at the numbers, BEVs were up 10%, while PHEVs did even better, jumping 65% in April. Breaking down plugin sales ... [continued]

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47% Of New Cars Sold In Netherlands Now Plugin Cars!

José Pontes — Mon, 13 May 2024 13:55:57 +0000

Volvo EX30 #1 in April In a negative month in the overall market (down 4% to 28,432 units), April saw plugin registrations increase by 11% YoY, to 13,274 units. As a result, the Dutch plugin vehicle (PEV) market reaching 47% last month, in line with the year-to-date average. That’s mostly ... [continued]

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What Falling Sales? Global EV Sales Grow 19% in March!

José Pontes — Thu, 09 May 2024 16:31:16 +0000

EVs Now 19% of World Auto Sales Global plugin vehicle registrations were up 19% in March 2024 compared to March 2023. There were 1.3 million registrations. BEVs were up by 7% YoY, while plugin hybrids jumped 50% YoY, with March being its second best month ever. In the end, plugins ... [continued]

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Volvo EX30 Shines — Europe EV Sales Report

José Pontes — Wed, 08 May 2024 06:33:43 +0000

Tesla is the best selling brand in Europe, but Volkswagen Group is the #1 OEM Some 296,000 plugin vehicles were registered in March in Europe, which is down 8% year over year (YoY). But there is a simple explanation for this: Tesla’s usual last-month-of-the-quarter peak was far less intense (in ... [continued]

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43% Plugin Vehicle Market Share In China — March 2024 Sales Report

José Pontes — Sat, 27 Apr 2024 16:20:06 +0000

Plugin vehicles are all the rage in the Chinese auto market, with plugins scoring 743,000 sales (in a 1.7-million-unit overall market). That’s up 29% year over year (YoY). Looking deeper at the numbers, BEVs were up 16%, while PHEVs did even better, jumping 62% in March. Breaking down plugin sales ... [continued]

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Spain Has 11% Plugin Vehicle Share — New Monthly Market Share Report

José Pontes — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 16:00:26 +0000

A small introduction: Following the feedback of some readers, I have decided to stop focusing so much on the Dutch, French, and German markets, and start covering other, less media friendly markets, which allows us to see different realities and have a better understanding of the EV Revolution. Tesla #1 ... [continued]

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World EV Sales Now 13% Of World Auto Sales

José Pontes — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 12:02:47 +0000

Global plugin vehicle registrations were up 3% in February 2024 compared to February 2023. There were 830,000 registrations, making it possibly the last month with fewer than one million sales per month ever for plugin electric vehicles. BEVs were down by 6% YoY, but there’s no reason to sound the ... [continued]

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Tesla Rules In Europe — Europe EV Sales Report

José Pontes — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 17:48:59 +0000

Tesla is the best selling brand in Europe, but Volkswagen Group is the #1 OEM Some 202,000 plugin vehicles were registered in February in Europe — which is +10% year over year (YoY). Unfortunately, it was the same growth rate in the overall market, +10%, so there were no real ... [continued]

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33% Plugin Vehicle Market Share In China — February 2024 Sales Report

José Pontes — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 06:19:25 +0000

Plugin vehicles are all the rage in the Chinese auto market, even in the slowest month of the year — due to the Chinese New Year celebrations. Due to the fact that festivities occurred this year in February, and last year they were in January, the market had an apparently ... [continued]

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Top Selling Electric Vehicles in the World — January 2024

José Pontes — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 19:29:59 +0000

The Tesla Model Y is #1 again in the electric vehicle market. Registrations were up 63% year over year (YoY) in January, to over a million units. China’s market was the main driver of growth. Share-wise, 2024 started with plugin vehicles getting 16% share of the global auto market (10% ... [continued]

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100% Electric Vehicles = 12% Of New Car Sales In Europe In January

José Pontes — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 16:02:42 +0000

The European passenger plugin vehicle market scored 199,000 registrations in January. Positively, BEVs (+29%) continued to grow despite the drop in EV incentives in a number of markets. Plugin hybrids (PHEVs) were also on the way up, growing by 23% year over year (YoY). BEVs started the year solidly ahead ... [continued]

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Geely & AITO (Who?!?!) Shine In China — In Rising 18% Market Share In January

José Pontes — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 05:46:24 +0000

After the December sales peak, the year started with an expected sales slump, but smaller than expected, with numbers almost doubling compared to last year. Although, January 2023 had a lot going against it (a covid surge, the end of EV subsidies on January 1st, the Lunar New Year celebrations ... [continued]

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Germany EV Sales Report: Back to the Past

José Pontes — Sat, 17 Feb 2024 09:09:11 +0000

After the subsidies-derived sales rush of December, Germany’s plugin vehicle (PEV) market was bound to have a hangover month in January. And it did, by scoring some 37,000 registrations. While that is a 40%-plus increase over the January 2023 result, it is important to remember that a year ago, the ... [continued]

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16% Of New Cars Were BEVs In France In January

José Pontes — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 19:53:29 +0000

The French plugin passenger car market is continuing to grow. Recently, this is all thanks to pure electrics (BEVs) jumping 37% to 20,017 registrations, or 16% share, in January. Plugin hybrids (PHEVs) were also up — in this case, a moderate rate of 2% year over year (YoY) to 10,509 ... [continued]

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Netherlands Starts the Year with 23% BEV Share!

José Pontes — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 05:57:21 +0000

In the context of a recovering overall market (+6% YoY), BEVs surged +57% year over year (YoY) in January, to 7,865 registrations. That means BEVs started the year with 23% market share — their best January ever. Plugin hybrids (PHEVs) were also up by 12%, to 4,320 registrations or 13% ... [continued]

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Tesla (Still) #1 in World BEV Sales — 2023 World EV Sales Report

José Pontes — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 02:26:15 +0000

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 2023 World EV Sales Report series with a look at the automotive groups or alliances that sell ... [continued]

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BYD #1 In World In Plugin Vehicle Sales In 2023

José Pontes — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 02:34:10 +0000

In the last stage of the 2023 race, BYD had another record month, this time with 321,000 registrations. It again beat Tesla, which had 195,265 deliveries. Below the two galactics, the SGMW joint venture was 3rd in the last month of the year, thanks to a record 69,912 registrations. Three ... [continued]

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World EV Sales Report — Tesla Model Y is the Best Selling Model in the World!

José Pontes — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 22:43:04 +0000

Tesla’s crossover dethrones the Toyota RAV4 in the overall global market in another record year for EVs. The last months of 2023 brought a record-fest for world plugin vehicle sales, with 3 months out of the last 4 setting new sales records. December was one of them, with over 1,550,000 ... [continued]

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24% Plugin Vehicle Share in Europe

José Pontes — Sat, 03 Feb 2024 07:19:21 +0000

(What a difference a year — and subsidies — makes. A year ago, we were celebrating a record month and 25% BEV share. Now … not so much.) While the overall automotive market had a positive year (+14%), December saw it falling — it was down 4% compared to December ... [continued]

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25% of New Car Sales in China Were 100% Electric in 2023!

José Pontes — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 04:23:06 +0000

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 980,000 units. Interestingly, full electric vehicles (BEVs) grew at a slower pace, growing just 31% to 618,000 units. They were ... [continued]

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30% Plugin Vehicle Share In France!

José Pontes — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 16:24:41 +0000

Plugin sales continued to grow in December, even reaching a new record, 54,413 units. That’s mostly thanks to BEVs. In December, their sales were up an amazing 50% year over year (YoY), to a record 37,355 units. Though, PHEVs also contributed to the party, by growing some 17% YoY (17,056 ... [continued]

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25% Of New Vehicle Sales Plugin Sales In Germany In 2023!

José Pontes — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 06:10:34 +0000

30% plugin vehicle share in December! The German plugin market experienced a somewhat chaotic year in 2023, all due to subsidy cuts. First it was the subsidies cut to PHEVs, which started on January 1st, 2023, and led to plugin hybrids crashing in 2023. The year ended with a 52% ... [continued]

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Top 10 Battery Producers In The World — 2023 (Provisional Data)

José Pontes — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 01:42:39 +0000

While there are regular reports about sales performances of the best selling EVs, as one can see here, here, and here, reports on the deployment of the all-essential batteries for these EVs are much less frequent. Nevertheless, they are a critical element in the EV transition, and big business too. ... [continued]

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52% Plugin Vehicle Share In The Netherlands! Tesla Model Y #1 Overall!

José Pontes — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 06:17:39 +0000

December was another strong month in the Dutch market for plugin vehicle sales, with 13,795 plugin registrations. This result translated into a brilliant 52% plugin vehicle (PEV) share, with 42% share from just full battery-electric vehicles (BEV). These impressive results pulled the 2023 plugin share to 44% (31% BEV), a ... [continued]

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Top Electric Vehicle Brands in the World — BYD & Tesla in a Different Universe

José Pontes — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 06:58:21 +0000

Following up on my detailed report on the top electric vehicle models in the world, let’s look now at the top auto brands and OEMs in terms of EV sales. Top Selling Brands In November, BYD continued at record levels, thanks to a 289,000-unit performance. Tesla went back to its ... [continued]

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World EV Sales Now Equal 19% Of World Auto Sales — Top Models

José Pontes — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 04:34:42 +0000

In November, global plugin vehicle registrations broke their previous monthly sales record (1,291,000 units), which was just set in September 2023. They reached 1,385,000 units in November. In the end, plugins represented 19% share of the overall auto market (13% BEV share alone)! So, that sales slowdown narrative we have ... [continued]

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1st & 2nd Place Wins for Tesla in Europe

José Pontes — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 21:19:43 +0000

Approximately 274,000 plugin vehicles were registered in November in Europe, down 2% year over year (YoY), the market’s first drop since July 2022. The overall market grew by 6% in what wasn’t a good month for plugins on the continent. Last month’s plugin vehicle share of the overall European auto ... [continued]

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27% BEV Share In China!

José Pontes — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 00:54:05 +0000

Plugin vehicles are all the rage in the Chinese auto market. Plugins scored more than 872,000 sales last month, up 39% year over year (YoY), which is this market’s fourth record month in a row. And expect the last month of the year to continue this record streak. November sales ... [continued]

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30% Of New Cars In France Now Plugin Electric Cars!

José Pontes — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 03:23:28 +0000

1 in 5 cars now sold in November was a BEV Thanks to upcoming subsidy changes, plugin vehicles continue to rise in France, with last month’s plugin vehicle registrations ending at 45,281 units. That total was divided between 30,769 BEVs (or 20% share of the overall auto market) and 14,512 ... [continued]

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The Battle For Germany’s EV Market, Part XI — BMW Shines!

José Pontes — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 03:00:45 +0000

VW & Tesla Down, Mercedes Up. The overall German auto market was down by 6% in November, to 245,701 units, which is still some 20% below pre-pandemic levels. Plugins have also disappointed, with the BEV market dropping 22% year over year, to 44,942 units, while PHEVs continue their long-running blues, ... [continued]

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46% Of New Cars In Netherlands Now Plugin Cars!

José Pontes — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 04:58:55 +0000

In the Netherlands, 46% of new car sales were plugin car sales in November. Furthermore, 34% were full electrics! The Dutch market saw an increase in plugin registrations to 12,902 units in November, up 34% YoY, thanks to the close to 10,000 BEVs registered (+41% YoY), with the plugin vehicle ... [continued]

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World EV Sales Now Equal 17% Of World Auto Sales

José Pontes — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 03:36:34 +0000

In October, global plugin vehicle registrations were close to beating their previous monthly sales record (1,291,000 units), which was just set in September 2023. They reached 1,279,00 units in October. In the end, plugins represented 17% share of the overall auto market (12% BEV share alone). The market share could ... [continued]

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26% BEV Share In China! — China EV Sales Report

José Pontes — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 21:58:55 +0000

Plugin vehicles are all the rage in the Chinese auto market. Plugins scored more than 808,000 sales last month, up 41% year over year (YoY), which is this market’s third record month in a row. And expect the last two months of the year to continue this record streak. October ... [continued]

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Volkswagen Group Shines, But Volkswagen Disappoints — Europe EV Sales Report

José Pontes — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 04:51:22 +0000

Approximately 260,000 plugin vehicles were registered in October in Europe, +24% year over year (YoY). The overall market also grew by double digits, +14%, but this result was still down 15% on October 2019, the last normal month on the market. Last month’s plugin vehicle share of the overall European ... [continued]

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27% Of New Cars In France Now Plugin Electric Cars!

José Pontes — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 13:21:50 +0000

Plugin vehicles continue to rise in France, with last month’s plugin vehicle registrations ending at 40,379 units, divided between 25,473 BEVs (or 17% share of the overall auto market) and 14,906 PHEVs (10% share of the auto market). The former jumped 51% year over year (YoY), while the latter were ... [continued]

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The Battle For Germany’s EV Market, Part X — Skoda Shines! VW & Tesla Down.

José Pontes — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 22:30:49 +0000

The overall German auto market was up by 5% in October, and the BEV market was back in the black after September’s subsidy-derived hangover (+4% year over year). 37,334 BEVs were registered in October, 17% of the auto market and up 4% YoY. On the other hand, PHEVs continued to ... [continued]

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42% Of New Cars In Netherlands Now Plugin Cars!

José Pontes — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 23:13:39 +0000

In the Netherlands, 42% of new car sales were plugin car sales in October. Furthermore, 29% were full electrics! The Dutch market saw an increase in plugin registrations to 11,776 units in October, with the plugin vehicle (PEV) market thus reaching 42% of the overall auto market last month. That ... [continued]

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World EV Sales Now Equal 17% Of World Auto Sales

José Pontes — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 08:59:13 +0000

Record month in September!

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25% BEV Share In China! — China EV Sales Report

José Pontes — Sun, 05 Nov 2023 07:18:33 +0000

Plugin vehicles are all the rage in the Chinese auto market. Plugins scored more than 776,000 sales last month, up 22% year over year (YoY), which is this market’s second record month in a row. And expect the last quarter of the month to continue this record streak. The September ... [continued]

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Tesla Model Y Rules In Europe — Europe EV Sales Report

José Pontes — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 03:59:41 +0000

Approximately 288,000 plugin vehicles were registered in September in Europe, +15% year over year (YoY). Unfortunately, the overall market also grew by double digits, +11%, as it is finally recovering from a couple of bad years. Last month’s plugin vehicle share of the overall European auto market was 25% (17% ... [continued]

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The Battle For Germany’s EV Market, Part IX — Das Hangover Edition

José Pontes — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 22:56:22 +0000

Stellantis places 3 models in the top 5!

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