At least if you live in Europe. In November of 2021, 23% of new vehicle registrations in France were either BEVs or true hybrids. Of that share, 57% were BEVs.
For 2021 to date, BEVs and true hybrid are at 18% of the market there. That's newsworthy for sure, but IMO, the story below "buries the lead." The EV sales leader in France by a respectable margin is the Dacie Spring. Dacia is Renault's economy brand, kind of what Chevrolet used to be to Oldsmobile here, or VW to Audi there. The Spring is made by Renault in China, and is one of the cheapest EVs available in Europe, so this is no surprise. After France's EV subsidy, the base Dacia Spring costs 12,400 euros (about US$14,000). The WLTP range is only 230km - Zoe is 400km and Tesla 3 is 430km - but apparently the French are more sensible about how much range they really need in a city car. In November, Renault sold almost twice as many Springs as Tesla sold 3s. It should be said though that Tesla doesn't offer a model that's comparable to the Spring, or in fact to any of Renault's EVs. Tesla seems to still be quite US-centric, but the real future of EVs lies in Europe, not here, so they need to get cracking on that smaller Tesla that's been rumored. Renault's bosses must be popping champagne corks, because among the Spring, the Renault Zoe right on its tail, and their own Twingo EV, Renault sold more EVs in France than Tesla, Peugeot, and Fiat *combined*. https://cleantechnica.com/2021/12/12/plugin-vehicles-23-of-new-car-sales-in- france-2/ or https://v.gd/bvldo2 David Roden, EVDL moderator & general lackey To reach me, don't reply to this message; I won't get it. Use my offlist address here : http://evdl.org/help/index.html#supt = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Permission is hereby granted to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated materials to make use of the software and associated materials according to the terms of the MIT License (see included file `LICENSE_MIT`) IF AND ONLY IF they have not read any portion of this file. Any person who has read any portion of this file may not make any use of the software and associated materials for any purpose whatsoever. Any permissions previously granted to any person to use this software and associated materials terminate and are revoked with immediate effect upon their reading of any portion of this file. -- Voynix software license = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = _______________________________________________ Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org No other addresses in TO and CC fields UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org
