In Canada, 6,933 EV and PHEV were sold last year. That is a 32 percent increase compared to 2014, when 5,235 Canadians opted for electric cars. The Model S proved the nations favourite (2,010 sales), followed by the Nissan Leaf (1,427 units) and the Chevy Volt (1,538 units).
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A total of 2,104 Nissan Leaf were delivered in the U.S. in May, bringing the year’s total to 7,742. While the Leaf is now the best-selling plug-in vehicle in the U.S., Chevy reported its best month since last August for the first-generation Volt. 1,618 units were sold in May, bringing the 2015 total to 4,397.
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Video tip: This is not something you see every day – a Tesla Model S is struck by lightning while charging! Though instead of getting a power boost, the car shut down and it took technicians a whole day to get it back up and running, especially because it would not let go of that charging cable.
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Click tip: If you were to get the new Chevy Volt, what should it look like? You can now play with the idea using the new configurator, which just recently went live.
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Click tip: Get all the inside on the upcoming Volt as Chevrolet’s “Hot Sheet” for GM dealers lists all differences between the old and the upcoming Volt, as well as production dates and prices per state. As usual, Californian buyers are given priority.
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Video tip: Georgia Power released a series of EV commercials, praising their advances through testimonials and key facts. Aren’t electric vehicles just enjoyable?!
youtube.com (GP channel) via insideevs.com
Video tip: You can read all about the new Chevy Volt in numerous articles, or you can watch this informative video that literally illustrates all there is to know about the Voltec drive system.
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Reading tip: Is GM actually obstructing its own business by presenting the new Bolt so close to introducing the 2016 Chevy Volt? Both the New York Times and Forbes deliver food for thoughts.
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Video tip: GM has released another video, teasing the next generation Chevrolet Volt, making sure it is more than capable of driving on snow and ice. The 2016 Chevy Volt will officially be revealed at the Detroit Auto Show in January.
youtube.com via greencarreports.com
Click tip: The U.S. Department of Energy has published a report about six projects, looking at charging behaviours and the impact on the grid. The goal is to determine how long existing charging infrastructure can accommodate demand growth from electric vehicles.
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A total of 2,589 Nissan Leaf were sold in the U.S. in October, another monthly sales record. That brings this year’s sales there to 24,411 units and the total of Nissan Leaf sold in the country to 66,533. The Chevy Volt had a difficult month, selling only 1,439 units, as people are probably awaiting the new model.
electriccarsreport.com, green.autoblog.com (Leaf), insideevs.com(Volt)
Reading tip 1: This makes the heart of every plug-in fan beat a little faster! On third of all cars sold at the Bourgeois Chevrolet of Rawdon dealership in Quebec this year were Chevy Volts. The company was therefore given Canada’s first annual Electric Vehicle Dealership Award.
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Reading tip 2: Transport Evolved takes a trip to the future site of the Nikola Tesla Science Centre and museum – in a Tesla Roadster (of course). Other Tesla drivers also came to the “Tesla meets Tesla” event, all in an effort to raise funds for the science centre.
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Video tip: CNN looks underneath the hood of the upcoming Chevy Volt and shows how the drive unit and battery pack are built. Watch as CNN’s Peter Valdes-Dapena (with some assistance from employees at GM battery lab in Warren, Michigan) assembles the next-gen Voltec drive unit.
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Click tip: Nissan has set a new sales record, saying it already sold more Leafs until the end of September, than it did in all of 2013 (22,610 units). The first nine months of 2014 showed a 36 percent increase in sales compared to the same period last year.
electriccarsreport.com, automotive-business-review.com
Study tip: IDTechEx projects that the market for electric and hybrid vehicles for the construction, agriculture and mining sectors will be worth 30 billion dollars by 2025. According to the new report, i.e. tractors in agriculture will be electric in volume quantities by 2025.
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Over 1 billion miles have been driven with Chevrolet Volts, according to GM’s Volt ticker. 629 millions of those miles were fully electric, which translates into more than 32 million gallons of fuel saved.
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Nissan sold 2,881 Leaf in the States in October. This is almost a 50-percent increase over last September’s sales but less than in record breaking August (3,186). Chevrolet’s Volt found only 1,394 American buyers, making September one of its weakest months to date.
greencarreports.com, green.autoblog.com
Electric cars are more versatile than even we thought. While you might have dreamed about partly powering your home with your car’s battery, this Chevrolet dealer solved the more pressing problem of his broken internet connection by simply logging onto the 4G hotspot of the 2015 Volt. The temporary solution has become permanent now and serves as yet another EV sales pitch.
transportevolved.com
Video tip: EV fans be warned, the following video contains scenes of explanatory nature and some nudity, as Youtube user d55guy is takes apart a Chevy Volt battery.
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Listening tip: All plenary sessions of the Plug In 2014 electric vehicle conference in San Jose are now available online. Speakers include former Fisker CEO Tony Posawatz, researchers, politicians and entrepreneurs.
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San Francisco’s Mayor Ed Lee is driving a Chevy Volt, which in general is a good thing. The EV has been spotted though repeatedly breaking, or say bending the rules and the drivers never having to pay the fine. Lee is not taking any responsibility as his office claims that it is not the mayor himself driving the Volt. However, wouldn’t a bit of the right behaviour make his electric example so much better?!
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More than half a billion miles have been travelled electrically in the Chevy Volt since its introduction in December 2010. GM got its data from a fleet of about 47,000 owners which have agreed to be monitored via the OnStar system.
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Video tip I: Every day is like Mother’s Day at the GM Detroit-Hamtramck assembly plant. Since the first Volt rolled off the assembly line there in 2009, the mother-daughter duo Evetta Osborne and Monique Watson has installed the battery pack of almost every Voltec car on the road today. That of course includes the Opel Ampera, Vauxhall Ampera, Holden Volt, and Cadillac ELR – more than 80,000 and counting.
hybridcars.com
Video tip II: MotorTorque tested the BMW i3 and put together a nice video review in which they called it the most appealing electric car yet. What’s your take?
electric-vehiclenews.com
Video tip: Siemens and BAIC are to form a joint venture for the development of electric drives (we reported). Here is the official announcement from the Beijing Auto Show.
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Test drive BMW i8: On a more professional note is Mark Vaughn’s review of the hybrid super car. He was, however, similarly enthused by what he calls the “world’s fourth-fastest hybrid” and the most affordable one too, when comparing it to the likes of Porsche and Ferrari.
autoweek.com
Reading tip: Will the new Chevrolet Volt mark the end of the Opel Ampera as we know it? Darren Moss from Autocar speculates that the Volt’s new drivetrain could also get used in a more European-friendly car from Opel.
autocar.co.uk
Video tip: Matt Farah is initiating a class struggle as he compares his Chevy Volt with a borrowed Caddy ELR.
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What do you think about the new Zero Emission Vehicle regulations proposed by the Californian Air Resources Board? CARB will be taking comments from the public for two more weeks.
arb.ca.gov via greencarcongress.com
A Florida couple fell victim to what could be dubbed as e-mobbing. They were charging their Chevy Volt when an unknown perpetrator cut the cord! The Volt sent a last distress signal to its owners, who highly suspect their neighbours.
greencarreports.com
Comparing snakes with brussel’s sprouts makes about as much sense as putting up an all-electric car against a mostly-electric car. Ironically, this is exactly what GM is doing with its new Volt spot. How about picking at the big gas guys first next time?!
youtube.com via cleantechnica.com
Video tip: Chris Harris reviews the Chevrolet Volt and while first speaking of “controversy” he soon calls it a “game changer” that has the potential to make people very happy, especially in suburbia.
electric-vehiclenews.com
Reading tip: The uptake of hybrids in Jamaica is very slow and dealers know the reasons. One is that people are worrying about were to charge the new hybrids even though the cars on offer have no plug.
jamaica-gleaner.com
The Chevrolet Volt is with 23,094 sales the most sold PHEV in the U.S. last year. The Nissan Leaf follows closely with 22,610 units sold in 2013 with its best month ever in December (2,529).
electriccarsreport.com, green.autoblog.com
