EV news, page-36

Sorry, that's 10,000% emotive and 0.0001% analysis.

You may well regard PHEV as heresy but the fact remains they were a heavily subsidised EV in the UK (and still are elsewhere) intended to be plugged into the grid, they have most definitely been accounted in ALL the glossy NEV numbers I've been monitoring for some time.

Now they are going backwards since the subsidies were removed because of blatant abuse you are saying they don't count any more? What we are witnessing in the UK is the probable trajectory for BEV when subsidies are removed if you bother to study any of the consumer surveys. in fact the uncertainty about subsidies & other concessions is one major reason cited as holding consumers back from updating older vehicles.

Back to the UK numbers, total 2018 YTD plug-in sales = 36,927 for a mkt share 2.4%

Total 2019 YTD plug-in sales = 34,987 for a mkt share 2.3% (of a total mkt reduced 3.4%)

Grid leaches have declined by almost 2000 units YTD and lost a point of mkt penetration, in a smaller mkt.

CJ will be pleased to note HEV tracking +20% YTD with a healthy 4% mkt penetration.

This is a template for what we are going to see in the major mkts balance 2019 and likely into 2020 as subsidies are cut, then removed. Will be interesting to see how the remaining heavily subsidised EU mkts manage to support critical mass only accounting for ~15% BEV sales 2018, VW kindly stripped the heretics:



BTW, I hope you weren't inferring that the 3.5t of Li-I you spotted in Hampstead were heavily subsidised commutes to the tube? Regardless, likely doing a similar average 31klm per day as the 225K heavily subsidised BEV in Beijing.