The Israeli automotive market has been showing strong growth since the beginning of 2023, due to an increase in deliveries of cars. According to a report by the Automobile Importers Association published on March 2, 29,132 new vehicles were delivered to Israel in February 2023, up 15.2% as compared to February 2022...
Everyone knows what an electric vehicle (EV) or electric vehicle (EV) is? Just in case, remember that this is a vehicle that is propelled by an electric motor powered by rechargeable batteries or other electrical energy (electricity) storage devices. This is a classic definition of electric vehicles, which hav...
2021 was a banner year in terms of sales, with more than 286,701 cars sold, surpassing the record set in 2016. In 2021, 290.9 thousand new cars were officially sold. More than a third of them are hybrids (including plug-in ones), the share of electric vehicles was 10.5 thousand, which is 7.5 times more than in 2020...
In 2020, sales of electric vehicles in Europe increased by 137%, reaching 1.4 million! (According to data from The Electric Vehicle World Sales Database). In the United States, the figures are not yet so significant with an increase of only 4%, and the number of electric vehicles sold per year is 328,000 (bu...
Let’s summarize the results of 2022: for 11 months (from the beginning of January to the end of November), around 257,000 new cars were sold in Israel, which is 9.8% less than last year. For comparison, for the same period in 2021, around 285,000 new cars were sold. At the same time, this November has prove...
The Mitsubishi Xpander is a 7-seater compact minivan manufactured by Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (Japan). It is distinguished by the higher ground clearance, which is especially good for those countries that don’t have a developed traffic system. The vehicle was introduced in July 2017 in Indonesia, where th...
The Mitsubishi Outlander SUV enjoys great popularity in various countries, so its new generation was eagerly anticipated. The vehicle is based on the CMF-C/D modular platform jointly developed by Renault and Nissan and shares it with the Nissan X-Trail. However, the hybrid version has a different powertrain. The ne...
Following the gasoline model that debuted earlier this year in the USA, the Mitsubishi Outlander Plug-In Hybrid was revealed in Japan. The last third generation hybrid model was very popular. Thus, almost 300 thousand vehicles were produced from 2013 to 2020. So the appearance of the new Outlander PHEV is a big event...
Sometimes life can surprise you in an unpredictable way. Once my adult son and I decided to re-watch all the episodes of Cars Cartoon, probably the most iconic for all fans of cars and speed. My son is almost 18 years old, so I no longer need to bring him up, as well as to answer a bunch of ‘why’ questions or explai...
The first mass-produced hybrid vehicle was the 1997 Toyota Prius hatchback, which was revolutionary for that time. It used an original powertrain that combined sequential and parallel circuits. The powertrain consisted of a gasoline four-cylinder engine and two electric motors, as well as a planetary gearbo...
