Wuling's Mini EV remains top dog on EV leaderboard

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In the email today… big news that global sales have hit a new high, the BBC being positive, and a used car salesman being negative.

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NEARLY 400K: According to the EV Sales Blog, worldwide plug-in electric car sales increased in April by 249% year-on-year to over 392,000 - a whopping amount. In terms of best selling models for April, top of the list was (again) the Wuling's Hong Guang MINI EV - that absolutely tiny Chinese car. It’s just staggering how popular it is. The Wuling Mini EV was sold 29,251 times last month. The nearest competitor (the very popular Tesla Model Y) only sold 16,232. Interestingly, in fourth place is the Volkswagen ID.4. It sold over 10,000 models last month - nearly double the amount of ID.3s. It just shows the continuing demand for SUVs in the West - m…