Slovenia September 2016

The Electric VW's have (Finally) arrived to Slovenia

Volkswagen Charges On In Hot Market

A total of 38 units were registered last month, which is a 322% improvement YoY, admittedly the numbers are small, so its easy to have such impressive growth rates, but it was still by far the best selling month for plug-ins ever, while also comparing favorably with the total sales of 2014, being a grand total of...40.

The EV Share is now at a record to 0.29%, with the market share now starting to move the needle at plain sight.

BMW is the leader (41% Share), with the i3 selling for the first time in two digits, but the event of the month was the 20 units of e-Golf registrations, allowing the plug-in best seller to jump straight to Second Place, it seems Volkswagen is now serious on EV's here, so we welcome the Best Selling manufacturer in Europe into this small but fast growing market.

On the other hand, Renault sales seem to have stopped, maybe buyers are already waiting for the 40 kWh version of the Zoe and we will see a spike in sales early next year.

Pl	Slovenia	Sept.	YTD	%	'14Pl
1 2 3	BMW i3 Volkswagen e-Golf Renault Zoe	11 20	36 21 14	25 15 10	2 N/A 1
4 5 5	Nissan Leaf BMW 330e Renault Kangoo ZE	2 1	13 10 10	9 7 7	3 N/A 7
7 8 9 9	Tesla Model S BMW i8 Smart Fortwo ED Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV	2	9 7 5 5	6 5 4 4	4 6 N/A N/A
11 12 13 14 14 14	BMW X5 40e Citröen C-Zero Kia Soul EV Audi Q7 e-Tron BMW 740e Volkswagen e-Up!	1 1	4 3 2 1 1 1	3 2 1 1 1 1	N/A 7 7 N/A N/A N/A
TOTAL		38	142	100

Source: http://www.ads-slo.org/statistika/

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V8 Release 5.5

Every six weeks, we create a new branch of V8 as part of our release process. Each version is branched from V8’s git master immediately before a Chrome Beta milestone. Today we’re pleased to announce our newest branch, V8 version 5.5, which will be in beta until it is released in coordination with Chrome 55 Stable in several weeks. V8 5.5 is filled will all sorts of developer-facing goodies, so we’d like to give you a preview of some of the highlights in anticipation of the release.

Language features

Async functions

In 5.5, V8 ships JavaScript ES2017 async functions, which makes it easier to write code that uses and creates Promises. Using async functions, waiting for a Promise to resolve is as simple as typing await before it and proceeding as if the value were synchronously available - no callbacks required. See this article for an introduction.

Here’s an example function which fetches a URL and returns the text of the response, written in a typical asynchronous, Promise-based style.

function logFetch(url) {
  return fetch(url)
    .then(response => response.text())
    .then(text => {
      console.log(text);
    }).catch(err => {
      console.error('fetch failed', err);
    });
}

Here’s the same code rewritten to remove callbacks, using async functions.

async function logFetch(url) {
  try {
    const response = await fetch(url);
    console.log(await response.text());
  } catch (err) {
    console.log('fetch failed', err);
  }
}

Performance improvements

V8 5.5 delivers a number of key improvements in memory footprint.

Memory

Memory consumption is an important dimension in the JavaScript virtual machine performance trade-off space. Over the last few releases, the V8 team analyzed and significantly reduced the memory footprint of several websites that were identified as representative of modern web development patterns. V8 5.5 reduces Chrome’s overall memory consumption by up to 35% on low-memory devices (compared to V8 5.3 in Chrome 53) due to reductions in the V8 heap size and zone memory usage. Other device segments also benefit from the zone memory reductions. Please have a look at the dedicated blog post to get a detailed view.

V8 API

Please check out our summary of API changes. This document is regularly updated a few weeks after each major release. 

V8 inspector migrated

The V8 inspector was migrated from Chromium to V8. The inspector code now fully resides in the V8 repository.

Developers with an active V8 checkout can use 'git checkout -b 5.5 -t branch-heads/5.5' to experiment with the new features in V8 5.5. Alternatively you can subscribe to Chrome's Beta channel and try the new features out yourself soon.

Posted by the V8 team

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