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All-electric and hybrid car sales so far account for just 3.5 percent of total vehicle sales in the U.S. this year. Not exactly what their makers expected when they launched these models.
- Chevrolet Volt November Sales Plunge By 50 Percent Due To Low Inventory
In September, Chevrolet delivered 2,961 units of its Volt plug-in extended-range hybrid. It was an all-time high, and it followed up from the 2,851 vehicles sold in October. Then came November: one way to look at it is that Volt sales rose by 33 percent...
- Gm Posts All Time Record July Sales In China, Up 11.7 Percent From The Beginning Of 2012
It's been a good sales month in China for General Motors and its 12 joint ventures in the country as the Detroit-based company set an all-time record high of 199,503 deliveries in July, up 15.1 percent over the same month last year. In particular,...
- Chevy Volt Sales Close To 50% Up In October, Outsells Nissan Leaf For The First Time
So far, Nissan’s all-electric Leaf has been the winner in the battle with the Volt extended-range hybrid, clearly outselling Chevy’s offering for the first half of 2011. But not anymore: for the first time since the two models went on sale,...
- Nissan Leaf Outsells Chevy Volt In Electric Car Battle During The First Half Of 2011
The battle for supremacy in the electric car category has begun –even though at present there are only two prime contestants. According to Bloomberg, the Nissan LEAF sold 3,875 cars the first half of the year, compared to 2,745 of GM’s...
- The Modest Rise And Harsh Decline Of The Chevrolet Volt: Charting Quarterly U.s. Volt Sales
The first three months of 2015 marked the lowest-volume quarter of U.S. Chevrolet Volt sales since the summer of 2011, when Volt production was just ramping up. Volt volume in January of this year, more specifically, fell to the lowest level since August...
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August a Record Month for Chevy Volt Sales Thanks to Big Discounts; But is it Really Good News?
All-electric and hybrid car sales so far account for just 3.5 percent of total vehicle sales in the U.S. this year. Not exactly what their makers expected when they launched these models.
At a first glance, the situation is improving for General Motors, as its Volt extended-range hybrid sold a record 2,800 units last month. Year-to-date Volt sales have so far reached 13,000 units, which certainly compares very well to the 7,700 cars that were sold in 2011.
For example, before the discounts, Bunnin Chevrolet in Culver City, California was selling three to five Volts per month. Last month it shifted 36 cars, mostly leases, and sales manager Chad Kelman told The Detroit News that the dealership is having a hard time keeping enough units in stock.
Read more »- Chevrolet Volt November Sales Plunge By 50 Percent Due To Low Inventory
In September, Chevrolet delivered 2,961 units of its Volt plug-in extended-range hybrid. It was an all-time high, and it followed up from the 2,851 vehicles sold in October. Then came November: one way to look at it is that Volt sales rose by 33 percent...
- Gm Posts All Time Record July Sales In China, Up 11.7 Percent From The Beginning Of 2012
It's been a good sales month in China for General Motors and its 12 joint ventures in the country as the Detroit-based company set an all-time record high of 199,503 deliveries in July, up 15.1 percent over the same month last year. In particular,...
- Chevy Volt Sales Close To 50% Up In October, Outsells Nissan Leaf For The First Time
So far, Nissan’s all-electric Leaf has been the winner in the battle with the Volt extended-range hybrid, clearly outselling Chevy’s offering for the first half of 2011. But not anymore: for the first time since the two models went on sale,...
- Nissan Leaf Outsells Chevy Volt In Electric Car Battle During The First Half Of 2011
The battle for supremacy in the electric car category has begun –even though at present there are only two prime contestants. According to Bloomberg, the Nissan LEAF sold 3,875 cars the first half of the year, compared to 2,745 of GM’s...
- The Modest Rise And Harsh Decline Of The Chevrolet Volt: Charting Quarterly U.s. Volt Sales
The first three months of 2015 marked the lowest-volume quarter of U.S. Chevrolet Volt sales since the summer of 2011, when Volt production was just ramping up. Volt volume in January of this year, more specifically, fell to the lowest level since August...