Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! Plugin vehicles are all the rage in the Chinese auto market, with plugins scoring 816,000 sales (in a 1.7-million-unit overall market). That’s up 33% year over year (YoY). Looking deeper at the numbers, BEVs ... [continued]
Looking deeper at the numbers, BEVs were up 22% while PHEVs did even better, jumping 55% in May. Breaking down plugin sales by powertrain, BEVs had 63% of sales, below this year’s average of 64%, proving the rising popularity of plugin hybrids in this market.
I wonder why PHEV are on the rise in China.