Daimler Buses has been confirmed by Hamburger Hochbahn AG as the sole supplier of up to 350 fully electric Mercedes-Benz eCitaro and eCitaro G city buses. Over the next five years, the new solo and articulated buses are to be delivered to the northern German city of Hamburg. The Mercedes‑Benz... Read more →

Veloz’s Q3 2024 California EV Market Report showcases a continued rise in electric vehicle (EV) adoption statewide. According to the latest data from the California Energy Commission (CEC), 115,897 new EVs were sold, propelling California past the milestone of 2 million cumulative EVs sold. California’s new EV market share reached... Read more →

EV research-house Rho Motion reported that more than 1.7 million EVs were sold over the month of October—overtaking the previous record, set in September 2023, by 50,000 units. The Chinese EV market has once again set another monthly record with 1.2 million units sold, growing by 6% compared to the... Read more →

New Flyer of America Inc. (New Flyer), a subsidiary of NFI Group Inc. (NFI) and a leader in zero-emission electric mobility solutions, announced a new firm order for 108 zero-emission hydrogen fuel cell-electric Xcelsior CHARGE FC 40-foot transit buses from San Mateo County Transit (SamTrans), marking the largest single fuel... Read more →

Transdev Nederland Holding placed an order with Solaris Bus & Coach for 96 zero-emission battery buses. Deliveries are scheduled for the last quarter of 2025. The fleet of battery-powered Solaris buses will serve public transportation in the province of Utrecht, central Netherlands. T Transdev Nederland Holding is one of the... Read more →

In 2023, SUVs made up over half of all battery electric vehicle (BEV) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) sales, according to the US Department of Energy (DOE). Manufacturers now offer EVs in a wide range of vehicle classes. The small SUV category had the highest sales, but combined with... Read more →

A record-breaking 1.7 million EVs were sold globally over the month of September, according to research-house Rho Motion. September overtook the previous record set in December 2023 by 150,000 units. The Chinese market beat their previous record set in August by 90,000 vehicles, to reach 1.1 million units sold in... Read more →

In a globally challenging market, the BMW Group increased its sales of fully-electric vehicles by +19.1% in the first nine months of 2024, with a total of 294,054 BEVs delivered to customers (16.8% of total deliveries). During this period, BMW brand sales of fully-electric models rose by +22.6% to 266,151... Read more →

Volvo Trucks North America leads the market in deployment of Class 8 battery-electric trucks, with more than 570 Volvo VNR Electric trucks in customer operations since commercial orders began in December 2020. Collectively, these trucks have logged more than 8.5 million miles, transforming operations for more than 70 unique customers.... Read more →

Volvo Cars reported global sales of 62,458 cars in September, up 1%compared to the same period last year. The company’s sales of electrified models—fully electric and plug-in hybrid models—grew 43%compared to the same period last year and accounted for 48% of all cars sold during September. The share of fully... Read more →

Toyota Motor North America (TMNA) reported US September sales of 162,595 vehicles, down 20.3% on a volume basis and down 9.9% on a daily selling rate (DSR) basis versus September 2023. September electrified vehicle sales consisting of hybrids, plug-in hybrids, pure electrics and fuel cells were 48.4% of total sales... Read more →

China sold more than one million EVs in August 2024, breaking the previous record set in December 2023 by 70,000 vehicles, according to research-house Rho Motion. The European market is down 4% so far this year compared to the same period last year; the first-time sales growth has turned negative... Read more →

Rho Motion reported that 1.4 million EVs were sold globally in July, bringing the year-to-date sales figure up to 8.4 million. Regional disparities continue to grow as EU & EFTA & UK sales fall year on year by 8% compared to July 2023 and China’s market grew by 31%. Globally,... Read more →

Ford’s Model e electric vehicle business segment posted an EBIT loss of $1.1 billion in the second quarter amid ongoing industrywide pricing pressure on first-generation electric vehicles and lower wholesales. Those factors more than offset about $400 million in year-over-year cost reductions in the segment. Overall, Ford reported second-quarter revenue... Read more →

Electric car sales continued to grow in Europe this year, with the exception of in Germany, according to a new analysis by environmental NGO Transport & Environment (T&E). Battery electric sales in the rest of the EU (excluding Germany) increased by 9.4% on average in the first half of the... Read more →

Europe is the slowest region of growth for electric vehicle (EV) sales so far this year, according to research house Rho Motion in its half yearly update. Just under seven million electric vehicles have been sold globally in the passenger car and light-duty vehicle market in the first half of... Read more →

With 190,622 fully electric vehicles delivered, the BMW Group achieved a +24.6% increase in BEV sales in the first half of 2024 compared to the previous year. Overall, BMW Group sales dropped by 0.1% compared to the previous year’s period with 1,213,359 units sold in the first half of the... Read more →

Volvo Cars reported global sales of 71,514 cars in June, up 8% compared to the same period last year. The sales increase was primarily driven by a strong performance in Europe and Latin America and the company’s fully electric small SUV, the EX30. The company’s sales of electrified models, fully... Read more →

GM posted record EV deliveries with 38,355 units in the first half of the year, including 21,930 units in the second quarter. This represents a 3% share of total sales for the first half and a 3.2% share for the second quarter. GM says that retail EV reservations are up... Read more →

Kia America has delivered its highest first-half EV sales yet. Kia America sold more than 5,000 all-electric vehicles (representing an approximate 8% share of June sales) for the third consecutive month and 29,392 total EVs through the first-half (representing a 7.6% share of all sales), resulting 112% growth year-over-year. The... Read more →

Nobina, a major transport operator in Sweden, has ordered a total of 88 Solaris electric buses for its fleet operating in three regions: Skåne, Värmland and Malmö. This includes 55 units of the Urbino 15 LE electric as reinvestment for Skåne region, 15 units for Värmland, and 18 units of... Read more →

The EU, EFTA & UK saw a 9% decrease in EV sales in May this year compared to the same month last year, according to data released by Rho Motion. The news comes just as the EU is poised to announce a further increase in tariffs on Chinese electric cars.... Read more →

Global EV sales reached 1.1 million units in April 2024, bringing year-to-date (YTD) sales to 4.3 million, 22% greater than the same period in 2023, according to Rho Motion. Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs) represent 64% of units sold so far in 2024, with the remaining 36% Plug-in Hybrid (PHEV). EU... Read more →

The share of electric and hybrid vehicle sales in the United States decreased in the first quarter of 2024 as battery electric vehicle (BEV) sales declined, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). Hybrid vehicles, plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, and BEVs fell to 18.0% of total new light-duty vehicle... Read more →

US sales of Ford hybrid vehicle reached 17,997 in April, a 60% improvement from the same month a year ago and a new monthly record. Sales of the new F-150 PowerBoost Hybrid set a new monthly record in April—up 93.6%—making F-150 Hybrid America’s top-selling full-size hybrid pickup. Early customers of... Read more →

BMW Group delivered a total of 82,700 fully-electric BMW, MINI and Rolls-Royce vehicles to customers worldwide in the first three months of the year, passing the milestone of 1,000,000 fully electric vehicles delivered. This represents year-on-year BEV growth of over 27.9% for the BMW Group. The increase in sales of... Read more →

Volvo Cars reported sales of 78,970 cars in March, an increase of 25% compared to the same month last year, and an all-time high for global sales during a single month. Volvo Cars’ new fully electric small SUV—the EX30—contributed to the sales growth, as well as a strong sales performance... Read more →

Europe’s new vehicle registrations reached their highest level last year since the pandemic. Strong demand for battery electric vehicles (BEVs) and the growing influence of new market entrants sparked significant shifts in the continent’s automotive landscape with new passenger vehicle registrations totalling 12,792,151 units in Europe-28 in 2023, up 14%... Read more →

HEULIEZ, the urban bus brand of Iveco Group has been selected by Régie des Transports Métropolitains (RTM, the public transport operator of Marseille) to supply 200 electric buses, with a contract worth €125 million. This significant order marks a major step forward in the large-scale electrification of Marseille’s public transport... Read more →

The authorities of the city of Galați, Romania, selected Solaris as the supplier of 40 modern electric buses through a tender procedure. Solaris will deliver 20 battery buses in a 9-meter version and another 20 with a length of 12 meters. The e-buses will be equipped with both plug-in charging... Read more →

EV and energy transition research firm Rho Motion said that more than one million Electric Vehicles (EVs) were sold globally in January 2024—the most EVs ever sold in January, up 69% from January 2023 when 660,000 were sold. China almost doubled last year’s January sales figure, accounting for 640,000 of... Read more →

Annual sales of battery-electric vehicles (BEVs) more than quadrupled from 2020 to 2023, with a period of rapid growth beginning in 2021 and culminating in 1.109 million BEV sales for the first time in calendar year 2023, according to the US Department of Energy (DOE). Plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHEVs) represented... Read more →

The first limited edition models of the new MAN eTruck for 2024 are already sold out, apart from a very small number of vehicles. A total of 700 orders and order requests have been received, the majority of which are for large-scale production, which will start at the MAN plant... Read more →

Building materials producer Holcim plans to order 1,000 units of the Mercedes-Benz eActros 600 electric truck to implement its sustainability strategy. Most of the vehicles are intended for the transport of building materials such as cement with silo trailers. The volume represents the largest planned single order to date for... Read more →

Solaris has signed a contract with German operator Ruhrbahn GmbH to supply 19 hydrogen-powered buses to Essen. The vehicles are scheduled for delivery in 2024 and 2025, marking the first presence of Solaris buses on the streets of Essen. The order includes the delivery of nine Urbino 12 hydrogen models... Read more →

Setting an all-time sales record in 2023, Honda hybrid-electric vehicles are now leading US sales charts, with the Honda CR-V hybrid the country’s best-selling hybrid model (197,317) and the Accord hybrid sedan the most popular hybrid-electric car (96,323). Last year, sales of Honda electrified models grew more than three-fold to... Read more →

IVECO BUS has won a €300-million contract to supply 411 E-WAY units to ATAC S.p.A—Azienda per la mobilità, the public transport company of Italy’s capital city. With these E-WAY units, Rome’s public transport company will have the largest fleet of IVECO BUS electric buses operating in the country. The delivery... Read more →

Daimler Truck increased its unit sales worldwide in 2023 despite supply bottlenecks in important regions, selling 526,053 trucks and buses (2022: 520,291 units). The company sold 3,443 units of battery-electric vehicles, 277% more than in the previous year (914 units). The Trucks North America segment increased its unit sales by... Read more →

UK-based electric vehicle and energy transition researcher Rho Motion reports that global Battery Electric Vehicle (BEV) and Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV) sales grew by 31% year-on-year (y-o-y) in 2023 to 13.6 million units following a monthly record of 1.5 million units sold in December. Of these, 9.5 million were... Read more →

Volvo Cars reported full 2023 sales of 708,716 cars during 2023, an increase of 15% compared to the full year of 2022. Volvo Cars also saw a significant increase in sales for its electrified cars. Last year, Volvo Cars sold 113,419 fully electric cars, an increase of 70% compared to... Read more →

GM delivered a total of 19,469 EVs in the US in Q4, up 19.7% YoY, including Bolt EV/EUV: 12,551; Lyriq: 3,820; Hummer EV: 2,028; Blazer EV: 463; Silverado EV: 443 and 164 Brightdrop vehicles. For 2023, GM increased total EV sales to 75,883 units (up 93%) from 2022. The Bolt... Read more →

BYD reported sales of 3,024,417 new energy vehicles (NEVs, battery-electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles) in 2023, a YoY growth of 61.8%. Of the total, 3,033,662 were passenger vehicles (99.6%). Of the passenger vehicles, 1,589,571 were battery-electric (52.4%)—representing a 73.32% growth year on year. Sales of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles were... Read more →

Tesla reported fourth quarter 2023 production of 494,989 vehicles and deliveries of 484,507 vehicles. In 2023, vehicle deliveries grew 38% YoY to 1.81 million while production grew 35% YoY to 1.85 million. Model 3/Y accounted for 95% of the Q4 deliveries, with 461,538 vehicles. For the full year, Model 3/Y... Read more →

Rivian Automotive reported producing 17,541 vehicles at its manufacturing facility in Normal, Illinois during Q4 2023 and delivering 13,972 vehicles during the same period. The production figures represent a 75% increase over Q4 2022. Rivian noted that a large portion of the vehicles produced by not delivered were the Amazon... Read more →

Sales of hybrid, plug-in hybrid, and battery-electric vehicles (BEV) in the United States rose to 17.7% of new light-duty vehicle sales in third-quarter 2023, according to data from Wards Intelligence as reported by the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). Sales of hybrids, plug-in hybrids, and BEVs have accounted for 15.8%... Read more →

In September 2023, a total of 64.2 GWh of battery capacity was deployed onto roads globally in all newly sold passenger xEVs (BEVs, PHEVs and HEVs) combined—a mere 2% increase over the previous month but a modest 24% increase over September 2022, according to Adamas Intelligence. CATL led the pack... Read more →

Hyundai Auto Canada Corp. reported total October sales of 9,581 units, a year-over-year increase of 15.0%. The Kona (1,896 units), Venue (1,669 units), and Tucson (1,650 units) were October’s three best-selling Hyundai models, respectively. October was a strong month for the IONIQ 5 (564 units, 5.9% of total), a YoY... Read more →

The BMW Group posted a solid increase in sales in Q3 to 621,699 premium automobiles and 1,836,563 units over the nine-month-period (Q3 2022: 587,744 units/+5.8%; 2022: 1,747,838 units/+5.1%). The biggest increase was in deliveries of battery-electric models. Between July and September, the BMW Group sold a total of 93,931 fully-electric... Read more →

Volvo Cars global sales reached 61,666 cars in September, up 25% compared to the same period last year. Europe, the US and China all reported sales growth for the month. For the first nine months of 2023, the company sold 509,158 cars, an increase of 19% compared to last year.... Read more →

Sales of Audi’s e-tron models in the US in Q3 rose to 7,538 units, representing 12.7% of total sales. This 93% increase from 3,911 units (8% of sales) in Q3 2022 was largely driven by the arrival of the two Q8 e-tron models, which together accounted for 3,597 units. For... Read more →