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While its base model price is $20,000 higher than anticipated ($60,990), and Musk warned volume production would not arrive until 2025, this is mainly due to the Cybertruck being a completely new product, made with new technology and materials – it will take time to scale the necessary production processes (the Cybertruck has an estimated 2 million pre orders to work through).",{"type":608,"attrs":700,"content":701},{"level":610,"textAlign":49},[702],{"text":703,"type":569},"Inflation and interest rates hit European sales ",{"type":564,"attrs":705,"content":706},{"textAlign":49},[707],{"text":708,"type":569},"In Europe, high inflation and interest rates are also hurting sales, and growth here is behind both the US and China, at around 19%. ",{"type":564,"attrs":710,"content":711},{"textAlign":49},[712],{"text":713,"type":569},"Meanwhile, individual countries have also been reducing financial incentives. Germany, the bloc’s largest auto market, dropped its EV tax credit, ending them for PHEVs this year and for BEVs by 2025. Other phaseout announcements came from Ireland and Switzerland in the fourth quarter. ",{"type":564,"attrs":715,"content":716},{"textAlign":49},[717],{"text":718,"type":569},"While VW has scrapped a future EV production facility in Wolfsburg, Germany, and paused one of three production lines in Zwickau, other European automakers are more positive. ",{"type":564,"attrs":720,"content":721},{"textAlign":49},[722],{"text":723,"type":569},"Renault, which is planning an upcoming IPO, forecasted increased sales, and Nissan committed to investing £2 billion, including government funding, to expand its EV factory in Sunderland, UK, and is standing by its target to sell 100% BEVs in Europe by 2030. ",{"type":564,"attrs":725,"content":726},{"textAlign":49},[727],{"text":728,"type":569},"Toyota is also mulling over new investments in Europe, including the UK, while the European Commission is making €3bn ($3.24 billion) in subsidies available to accelerate growth of local battery and EV supply chains.",{"type":564,"attrs":730,"content":731},{"textAlign":49},[732],{"text":733,"type":569},"In summary, is the EV market slowing? Yes, but the slowdown has multiple drivers. These include challenging economic conditions, shrinking financial incentives, rising labour costs in the US, as well as natural movement along the S-Curve of adoption. ",{"type":564,"attrs":735,"content":736},{"textAlign":49},[737],{"text":738,"type":569},"Sales growth has slowed, but has not been derailed.","Global electric vehicle sales doubled in 2021, grew by 60% in 2022, and are on course for 31% growth in 2023. On the one hand, the growth rate is set to fall for the second consecutive year against a backdrop of several automakers announcing production cutbacks. On the other hand, however, passenger EV sales in […]",[741],{"slug":552,"name":553,"content":742},{"job_title":555,"image":743,"bio":558,"linkedin":559},{"filename":557},"\u003C!--#storyblok#{\"name\": \"article\", \"space\": \"\", \"uid\": \"e7c5b663-676f-42a1-95ed-b02f98a51546\", \"id\": \"\"}-->","article",[747],{"slug":748,"name":749},"ev","EV","private",{"id":49,"alt":604,"name":604,"focus":604,"title":604,"source":604,"filename":752,"copyright":604,"fieldtype":753,"meta_data":754,"is_external_url":51},"https://wp-admin.benchmarkminerals.com/app/uploads/Ford-F-150-Lightning_Charging_01-scaled.jpg","asset",{"alt":604,"title":604,"source":604,"copyright":604},"Dec 12, 2023","12th December 2023",[],[],1783529652667]