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Tesla experienced delays in ramping up Model X production.
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Tesla mulls Federal suit over state franchise laws banning it from selling electric cars
Coffins made by monks don't often figure into either legal decisions or the electric car industry, but they do at the moment. Tesla Motors is weighing whether to sue in Federal court over various state franchise laws that prohibit it from selling Model S and Model X electric cars online to buyers...
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BYD electric-car sales may triple this year, Chinese maker says
China's BYD eked out a global victory in electric-car sales last year, selling more plug-in cars than BMW, General Motors, Nissan, Renault, or Tesla. The company delivered nearly 62,000 battery-electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles last year, almost entirely in China. Now, the company projects that...
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Plug-in electric car sales in Canada, February 2016: Volt Valentine
Chevy's 102 Volt sales may have led the Canadian plug-in electric vehicle market in February, and bring its national total to 5,611 units. As it happens, this is a mere 103 units away from Nolan Ryan's major league baseball strikeout record of 5,714. Up slightly from January's 94 sales, this was...
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Plug-In electric car sales for Feb: winter doldrums continue
As in previous years, the dog days of January and February were not kind to electric-car sales this year. Both 2014 and 2015 saw the lowest number of plug-in cars sold in their first two months, and 2016 appears to be following that pattern. While February sales were slightly up on those in...
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How Many Electric Cars Does California Buy? One-Third To One-Half Of All Of 'Em
About 55 percent of U.S. plug-in car sales in January were in California, according to the California Plug-In Electric Vehicle Collaborative.
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Like an exhausted Times Square reveler, the Canadian plug-in electric vehicle market tends to start the New Year slowly, and this past January was no exception. Chevy sold 94 Volts, down more than half from December's 220 but well ahead of the 71 from a year ago. Similarly, Nissan's 72 Leaf sales were a substantial drop from December's 122, while still being double the 36 units from the prior January. DON'T MISS: U.S. Plug-In Electric Car Sales In Jan: Little To Celebrate BMW managed to keep its i-series sales steady, the 34 units sold in January being roughly on par with December's 37 (split...
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Plug-In Electric Car Sales In Jan: Steady, But Little To Celebrate
January has historically been a tough month for plug-in electric car sales, and last month doesn't look like it'll be an exception. Added to the usual winter slowdown in electric-vehicle sales were the effects of Winter Storm Jonas, which effectively closed parts of the Eastern Seaboard for several...
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Plug-in Electric Car Sales in Canada, December 2015: Tesla Model S-Capades
Tesla's dominance in Canadian plug-in electric vehicle sales in December seems all but assured, given that its sales in the quarters ending in March, June and September were 250, 242, and 255 respectively. Those are the three highest single-month sales totals for any plug-in electric vehicle in...
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Plug-In Electric Car Sales For 2015 Fall Slightly From 2014
The U.S. new-vehicle market set a new record last year, with deliveries of new passenger cars and light trucks totaling 17.39 million. The previous record of 17.35 million was set in 2000. But battery-electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles saw their totals fall slightly, from about 120,000 in 2014 to...
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Renault Zoe Leads 2015 European Sales Of All-Electric Cars
While sales of electric cars and plug-in hybrids fell slightly last year in the U.S., the sales data for Europe was more encouraging. Almost 100,000 battery-electric cars were sold in the European Union last year: 97,687 units, to be precise. (Data for plug-in hybrids isn't immediately available.)...
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Who Sold The Most Plug-In Electric Cars In 2015? (It's Not Tesla Or Nissan)
Five years after the Nissan Leaf and Chevy Volt first went on sale, plug-in vehicles represent slightly less than 1 percent of U.S. new-car deliveries. With about 200,000 sold, the Leaf is the world's most popular electric car. But which carmaker sold the most cars with plugs last year, worldwide?...
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It's been a little more than three months since the Volkswagen diesel emission scandal erupted into the public eye. Over that time, VW has revealed multiple violations of emissions rules across the globe for roughly 11 million of its TDI diesel cars sold not only by Volkswagen but also Audi and Porsche. And details of its proposed fixed for 482,000 2.0-liter four-cylinder diesels and 85,000 3.0-liter V-6 diesels in the U.S. remain under assessment by the EPA and the California Air Resources Board. DON'T MISS: Volkswagen Hires Kenneth Feinberg To Set Payments For U.S. Diesel Owners It's not...
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Electric-Car Buyers Not As Loyal To The Plug As They Think
It's often said that once you drive an electric car, you'll never want to go back to one with a conventional engine. And various surveys of first-time drivers to actual plug-in car buyers support that notion. But some new data indicate that people who've owned an electric car don't, in fact, always...
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Fuel-Economy Gains Slowed In 2014, Reversed This Year
Average fuel economy for 2015 fell 0.1 mpg compared to 2014, researchers say.
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Tesla 2015 Deliveries Squeak Past 50,000, With 208 Model X During Q4
Tesla Motors said on Sunday that it delivered 17,400 electric cars during the fourth quarter of last year, from September 1 through December 31. Of those, 17,192 were Model S sedans and 208 were the newly launched Model X crossover utility vehicle. That brings Tesla's total deliveries for the...
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How Bad Was Nissan Dealer When Buyer Wanted A Leaf Electric Car? THAT Bad
Five years after the first modern mass-market electric car launched, stories of recalcitrant car dealers continue to surface from buyers. Walk into a dealership, explain that you want to buy an electric car ... and then endure a litany of reasons why you don't. But a meticulously documented...
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Five Years After Launch, 200,000th Nissan Leaf Electric Car Sale Coming Up
Nissan expects to deliver the 200,000th Leaf in January.
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The 2016 Toyota Prius, the fourth generation of the company's iconic hybrid-electric vehicle, is just starting to come onto the market around the world. But with the price of oil a fraction of what it was two years ago, and gasoline prices at recent lows in major markets, the title of highest fuel efficiency of any gasoline car is less alluring. And Toyota is already cutting its sales projections for the fourth-generation Prius as a result. DON'T MISS: 2016 Toyota Prius: First Drive Of 56-MPG Hybrid That's the word from Reuters, which wrote yesterday that the company is now targeting sales of...
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Plug-in Electric Car Sales in Canada, November 2015: Autumn Reign For Volt
The second-generation Chevy Volt followed up its 203 October sales with 178 units in November, likely leading the Canadian plug-in electric vehicle pack. Though it will end December with slightly lower year-over-year volumes, the positive early reception suggests the 2016 Volts have the potential...
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Plug-In Electric Car Sales In Nov: Volt Strong, But Leaf, i3 Decline (UPDATED)
Sales of plug-in electric cars generally fall off a bit as the weather gets colder, and it's the same this year, with November sales slightly down on those of October. The new 2016 Chevrolet Volt continued strong, even though it's on sale only in California and a few other states, but weakness in...
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Plug-in Electric Car Sales in Canada, October 2015: The Wallet Ballot
During the same month in which a second-generation Trudeau won the Canadian election, the second-generation Chevy Volt took the plug-in electric vehicle sales crown. The new model helped Chevrolet sell 203 Volts in Canada in October, well above the 126 sold in September and good enough for its...
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Plug-In Electric Car Sales In Oct: New Volt Surges, Old Leaf Flat (FINAL UPDATE)
At long last, a handful of lucky customers in selected areas drove home in brand-new 2016 Chevrolet Volts last month. Sometime this month, full pricing and availability for the 2016 Nissan Leaf with its 107-mile range will be revealed. These two updated plug-in electric cars represent improvements...
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Battery Breakthrough To Boost Nissan Electric Cars To One In 10 Sales Around 2020, Exec Says
Back in November 2009, Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn said 20 percent of his company's sales would be electric cars by 2020--and that electric cars would make up 10 percent of global sales. But Ghosn was widely pillored for his projections just a few years later, when Nissan Leaf sales proved slower than...
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