Battery Electric Vehicle News / Enjoying the Transportation Revolution

Magnitio

QrizB said:

Martyn1981 said:

[ I don't know to what level "feature electric drivetrains" means exactly, but certainly positive.]

Diesel electric?

Coal-fired steam turbine electric, with stokers furiously shovelling coal like something from a Titanic movie?

Some of them are hybrid but have limited opportunities to plug in (e.g. overnight or only in certain locations). When the batteries are depleted, or they need additional power, they use diesel or LNG generators.

Martyn1981

Article going into depth on World EV sales for March (note Mch not Apr). Much of the info is about model sales and specifics, but I've quoted the initial paragraphs which give the main points/numbers/%ages.

Global EV Sales — EVs Now 21% of World Auto Sales in 2025

1.6 Million Units in March, 4.1 Million YTD

Global plugin vehicle registrations were up 25% in March 2025 compared to March 2024. There were over 1.6 million registrations. More good news is that BEVs pulled further ahead of plugin hybrids, growing 32% YoY to 1.1 million units compared to plugin hybrids growing 14% to some half a million units in the same period.

In the end, plugins represented 25% share of the overall auto market (17% BEV share alone), pulling the YTD numbers to 21% share (14% BEV). This means that the global automotive market remains firmly on the path to electrification.

Full electric vehicles (BEVs) represented 67% of plugin registrations in March, keeping the year-to-date tally at 66% share. 2024 finished with a 63% share for BEVs, so 2025 is turning out to be a positive year for pure electrics in this metric, too.

Martyn1981

Fun chart from Norway, showing that BEV's now outnumber petrol cars in the nation's fleet, as the percentage closes in on 30%. Not far off overtaking diesels too.

Apr sales of BEV's reached 97%

 EVs Take 97.4% Share In Norway – Tesla Model Y Best Seller

April’s sales saw combined EVs take 97.4% share in Norway, with 97.0% full battery electrics (BEVs) and 0.5% plugin hybrids (PHEVs). These compare with YoY figures of 91.0% combined, 89.4% BEV and 1.6% PHEV.

orrery

Martyn1981 said:

Fun chart from Norway... .

So, at #1 the Model Y is the only Tesla in the top 20? The often written-off VW group get 5 of top ten.

Martyn1981

Nice to see this happening.

17 High-Powered Electric Truck Chargers To Be Installed At Three UK Sites

The e-fleet solutions provider VEV is collaborating with Maritime Transport to install 17 high-powered electric truck chargers at three Maritime sites. Maritime is a UK integrated road and rail freight logistics leader.

We’re installing a total of 17 high-powered electric truck chargers across three strategic locations. The installations are now in advanced stages of build at Mill Lane in Wakefield and London Distribution Park in Tilbury, with works due to commence shortly at iPort in Doncaster. These are the first sites in Maritime’s network to be electrified for zero-emission HGV operations, with commissioning set to conclude in May.

michaels

Martyn1981 said:

Nice to see this happening.

17 High-Powered Electric Truck Chargers To Be Installed At Three UK Sites

The e-fleet solutions provider VEV is collaborating with Maritime Transport to install 17 high-powered electric truck chargers at three Maritime sites. Maritime is a UK integrated road and rail freight logistics leader.

We’re installing a total of 17 high-powered electric truck chargers across three strategic locations. The installations are now in advanced stages of build at Mill Lane in Wakefield and London Distribution Park in Tilbury, with works due to commence shortly at iPort in Doncaster. These are the first sites in Maritime’s network to be electrified for zero-emission HGV operations, with commissioning set to conclude in May.

I am guessing with UK distances not being huge, many trucking routes could only need a charge at one end of each round trip?

Martyn1981

China sales numbers for April. I'm a tad obsessed at the moment, as I'm waiting to see their market exceed 50% PEV sales per year.

April was 52% PEV, but the YTD figure is still 'only' 48%. Not long now.

Geely Xingyuan Takes Top Spot in China! — April 2025 Sales Report

April saw the continuation of the never ending growth of the Chinese EV market, with plugins scoring over 900,000 units in April (in a 1.8-million-unit overall market). They grew over 30% YoY, a positive outcome in a total market that expanded 17% YoY.

Digging deeper into the numbers, BEVs were the fastest growing technology, going up by 38% to 559,000 units, or 62% of plugin sales, while PHEVs grew 26% YoY (28% share of plugins) and EREVs grew 33% (10%).

This pulls the year-to-date (YTD) tally to over 3.3 million units. So, we should see plugins end the year well above 10 million units. In China alone….

Share-wise, April saw plugin vehicles reaching 52%! Full electrics (BEVs) alone accounted for 32% of the country’s total passenger auto sales.

This good result in April kept the 2025 share at 48%. BEVs were also stable on their own, at 30%. Expect to see plugins at 50% and BEVs at around 33% at the end of the first half of the year.

Coastalwatch

Guess one had to appear sometime!

Port of Antwerp-Bruges introduces electric tugboat

The Volta 1 has a battery capacity of 2,782 MWh, which can be charged in two hours via a 1.5 MW charging station. As a battery-electric vessel, the Volta 1 is completely emission-free and can sail for up to 12 hours. Its tractive force of 70 tonnes guarantees the same performance as a conventional diesel tractor.

https://www.electrive.com/2025/05/22/port-of-antwerp-bruges-introduces-electric-tugboat/

NigeWick

No doubt others will follow suit.

CKhalvashi

michaels said:

Martyn1981 said:

Nice to see this happening.

17 High-Powered Electric Truck Chargers To Be Installed At Three UK Sites

The e-fleet solutions provider VEV is collaborating with Maritime Transport to install 17 high-powered electric truck chargers at three Maritime sites. Maritime is a UK integrated road and rail freight logistics leader.

We’re installing a total of 17 high-powered electric truck chargers across three strategic locations. The installations are now in advanced stages of build at Mill Lane in Wakefield and London Distribution Park in Tilbury, with works due to commence shortly at iPort in Doncaster. These are the first sites in Maritime’s network to be electrified for zero-emission HGV operations, with commissioning set to conclude in May.

I am guessing with UK distances not being huge, many trucking routes could only need a charge at one end of each round trip?

Also take into account driving hours. You'd simply need to be able to put 400km into the lorry in about 50 minutes.

We put the numbers together for an operator of big green buses (not the corporate company, one of their contract operators) showing that there would be fuel savings on one route of €0,31/km of their fuel costs and a journey time increase of about 40 minutes from the installation of 6 440kWh rapid chargers along that route. It's a daily international route of around 1200km, taking about 22 hours and allows us a margin of about €0,18/kWh.to pay for the (admittedly €220k before rebates) installation costs at 4 major bus stations (2 of them are already done for another operator, a third is already planned), all of which serve other international routes, one I'm specifically thinking of has an international bus going through every 10-15 minutes at peak plus at least 1 international departure per hour originating there (it's 37/day currently to 3 countries). Following an 08:30 arrival, these ones remain parked until around 22:00 in one direction and from 20:00 to 10:00 in the other direction. There are 4 stops on one side of the border and 3 on the other including O/D, operating as an international-only service.

We worked out that if a 55 minute stop is scheduled at the driver change station (which is the one I'm thinking of above) instead of 30, it's possible to schedule 2x 10 minute charges at the 2 drop off-only sites before final arrival in one direction and 2x 20 minute in the other.

With financing and some reasonable assumptions, we would estimate a 30% annual return on cash invested.

I've done the full length of that route as a passenger.