Inside EVs

FIRST MOVER: HOW TESLA WILL CONQUER MARKET SHARE AS THE AUTO INDUSTRY MOVES TOWARDS ELECTRIC VEHICLES Bloomberg* recently analyzed the electric vehicle (EV) segment to forecast how it would impact the overall automotive industry in the coming years. It’s reported that: “Electric cars are coming, but how fast and who will… …read more

Thanks entirely to Renault, the French plug-in electric car market grew by 7.4% last month to total 3,121 new registrations. The growth would have be much higher, were it not for buyers of PHEVs and light commercial all-electric vehicles getting cold feet during February Passenger BEVs: 2,271 registrations (up 19.6%) and 1.4% market… …read more

They do exist… Here’s video showing delivery of one of the very first Tesla Model S 100D electric sedans. The Model S 100D is the longest-range electric production car on sale in the U.S. with an EPA-estimated range of 335 miles Announced some two months ago, the Model S 100D… …read more

J.D Power just recently put out a release titled “Tesla Owners Acknowledge Numerous Quality Issues; Love Their Cars Anyway, J.D. Power Finds.” It’s a rather odd piece in that it focuses solely on Tesla, yet includes no information from the J.D. Power Initial Quality Study (IQS)℠ due to a small sample… …read more

Skoda Vision E teaser likely foretells Kodiaq Coupe Even the once humble Skoda is preparing a coupe-SUV mashup. In an otherwise uninteresting press release talking about the company’s design language inspired by the Czech crystal glass art, Skoda is hiding a little gem. The adjacent image actually portraits what will… …read more

Elextra Electric Super Sedan Returns In More Revealing Images Designed in Switzerland and hand-built in Germany, the Elextra is yet another Tesla Model S fighter. After catching a glimpse of its side profile about a month ago, the rather mysterious Elextra is back to show off its front and rear… …read more

Could you imagine demand being so high that you’ll have to wait six months to even test drive a car? Well, that seems to be the case with the Tesla Model S in South Korea. It’s being reported that you could actually purchase a Model S in South Korea and… …read more

Plug-in electric vehicles sales in China have returned to a more typical growth pattern in February, after a total faith-based collapse in January. EV Sales Blog counted around 16,875 registrations in the country for the month, which is a sturdy 55% more than year ago. With that said, the sales environment was still… …read more

Tesla Racing Channel is back out on the Piedmont Dragway track again. This time around, the matchup is a bit different in that it features a pair of very similar Tesla Model S P100Ds. Video description: “Back at Piedmont Dragway to test out the Base Model Tesla P100D vs our… …read more

Earlier this month, Tesla inaugurated the opening of its first two stores in South Korea. Store #1 is referred to as the automaker’s Korean flagship location. It’s in the new Starfield Hanam, a shopping mall located in Gyeonggi Province (see rendered image). The second store is in Cheongdam-dong. Korea Times reports:… …read more