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BMW vehicles which have an electric motor and battery are now approximately 1 out of every 16 BMW USA passenger car sales (6.4% of such sales). The sales include BMW i3, BMW i8 and BMW 330e models. The BMW X5 xDrive 40e was not included in this calculation since it falls under BMW’s light trucks category — it accounts for 4.3% of that category’s sales. Overall, that means plug-in cars accounted for 5.55% of all BMW brand sales in the US in November. BMW, Nissan, and GM are often identified as the Big Auto companies most focused on advancing electric cars in th...
The International Council of Transportation has published recently a very interesting analysis of the California electric market. It provided a great overview of the effects of different policies and promotional activities in effect there through 2015, as well as lessons for other locations.This analysis was based around city-level data on electric vehicles for 30 different cities, including adoption rates, public charging infrastructure availability, model availability, promotional efforts, incentives, etc. Electric vehicle adoption rates in many Californian cities are much higher than elsewh...
The celebration of Kia's new $3 billion assembly plant in Mexico, was supposed to be fun and interesting, and it was interesting, but was it really fun? Glad-handing by local officials, lofty praise for the jobs created and money brought in, ceremonial ribbon-cutting with high-ranking executives in from Korea. But, the time for Miguel Angel Lozano to take the stage came, a mayor of Pesqueria, a small town about two hours from the southern tip of Texas. Kia's new plant sprawls over about 1,200 acres in Pesqueria, and, to hear Lozano tell it, his town has almost nothing to sho...
The title of the undisputed king of midsize trucks in the U.S. in recent years belonged to Toyota Motor, with its popular Tacoma model. However it seems like other automakers are trying to contest this supremacy. General Motors' Chevy Colorado and GMC Canyon received numerous accolades and started to compete with Toyota's midsize pickups for customers' love. With demand for midsize trucks rising quickly, GM has had no trouble growing in this segment. It is now gaining on Toyota - and by 2017, it could mount a strong challenge t...
Twitter is one of those social media which keep us updated and informed all the time, by the number of followers we can guess how popular a brand or company is, and by the number of likes and shares we realize how interesting the post was and how much people loved it. That is how we've come to understand how popular Ford F-150 was the last month. For the third month in row Ford ends up first on twitter. On June 28, the F-150's top tweet with a blue model set against a mountains backdrop drew over 80 retweets. Ford used the #TruckTuesday hashtag. More than 115 retweets and 57...
