With pv magazine revealing this week the number of new electric vehicles (EVs) registered worldwide in 2014 was a whopping 320,000, we may have unwittingly revealed what sent enraged Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson spinning out of control. That figure amounted to almost half of the 740,000 EVs on the road with the Nissan Leaf retaining top spot in the popularity stakes ahead of General Motors' Chevrolet Volt and the Toyota Prius, although new models the Tesla Model S, Mitsubishi Outlander Plug-In and Honda's Fit EV dominated last year's sales, alongside perennial favorite the Leaf, favored by Leonardo Di Caprio and Larry David, among others. The news came from another German company with a too-difficult-to-spell-out acronym, the Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research Baden Wurttemburg, otherwise known as the ZSW. The U.S. accounts for almost one-in-three of the world's EVs with Japan's presence at number two no surprise given the number of Japanese models among consumer favorites. With China the third biggest market, with 54,000 new registrations in 2014, Germany struck a bum note with only 11,700 new EVs on the road thanks to a lack of incentives. pv magazine takes no responsibility for any damage suffered by producers as a result of the re-iteration of these figures. Hanergy and its amazing share performance English newspaper the Financial Times this week revealed the curious case of Chinese thin film manufacturer Hanergy's soaring share price. The FT noted the Hong Kong publicly listed share price of Hanergy has consistently surged ten minutes from the close of trading on a daily basis over the ...Den vollständigen Artikel lesen ...