Cars
Plug-Ins Won Over Consumers Easier than Hybrids Did
Gasoline-electric hybrids first appeared in the late 1990s in the US, the most notable model being the 1999 Toyota Prius. By their fourth year on the market, this genre of vehicle had managed to sell 100,000, but it seems they’re now being outpaced by plug-in vehicles.
Read more »
-
U.s. Sales Of Evs And Plug-in Hybrids Up 84 Percent, Diesels Rise 10 Percent In 2013
U.S. sales of full electric and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles rose 84 percent in 2013 to more than 96,000, boosted by price cuts and new model launches, according to a report from the Detroit News citing data obtained from Wards Auto. Automakers sold...
-
Toyota Slashes 2014 Prius Plug-in Prices By Up To $4,620
Toyota is upping the game in the increasingly competitive green field of regular and plug-in hybrids as well as pure EVs by following the example of other brand such as GM with its Chevrolet Volt and Nissan with the Leaf, and lowering prices for its...
-
Ford Says C-max Hybrids Outsells Toyota Prius Plug-in And V In Its First Full Month Of Availability
Ford has taken yet another swipe at Toyota in the battle of the hybrids. The Blue Oval announced that in November, their first full month of availability, combined sales of its C-MAX Hybrid and C-MAX Energi Plug-in Hybrid in the U.S. reached 4,846 units...
-
Toyota To Launch 21 New Hybrids And A New Fuel Cell Vehicle In The Next Three Years
When the first-generation Prius was launched in 1997, annual sales were negligible. Today, Toyota delivers more than one million hybrids annually and which account for 10 percent of its total global sales and 50 percent of the brand’s domestic...
-
Toyota To Ford: Beat This, We've Sold Over One Million Hybrids In The U.s.
Just the other day, Ford pompously announced that it sold its 100,000th hybrid SUV. Today -and we seriously doubt that this is a coincidence - Toyota announced that the total combined Toyota and Lexus hybrid vehicle sales in the U.S. have topped the one...
Cars