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Toyota has reached yet another significant milestone in global hybrid sales. The Japanese automaking giant has surpassed 10 million hybrid sales globally since the launch of the first-generation Prius in 1997. That total includes hybrids sold under Toyota's Lexus luxury brand, as well as sales of two plug-in hybrid models. CHECK OUT: Toyota at 9 million hybrids, now makes more than 1 million a year (May 2016) The latter represent only a tiny fraction of the vast numbers of conventional hybrids the automaker has sold over the past 20 years. Toyota surpassed 10 million global hybrid sales just...
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Tesla delivered 76,000 cars in 2016, missing its goal
While the auto industry will start to report December and year-end sales totals today, Tesla Motors issued its year-end delivery and production results yesterday. The Silicon Valley car maker, now completing its ninth year of production, delivered 22,230 electric cars during the fourth quarter of...
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GM ramps up 2017 Chevy Bolt EV electric-car production; how many can it build?
With anticipation of the 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV launch growing, General Motors has started to ramp up production of its groundbreaking 200-mile electric car. (It's actually rated by the EPA at 238 miles combined, but it joins a segment of the electric-car market with 200 miles or more of range that...
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LG Chem: GM to sell 'more than 30,000' Chevy Bolt EVs next year
A very brief article on a single sentence uttered on Tuesday by an executive at Korean battery maker LG Chem has reverberated around electric-car circles for most of this week. The executive was vice president Kang Chang-beom, and he spoke on a conference call for financial analysts on the topic of...
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Which country or region will make the most electric cars in 2025? Poll results
Plug-in electric cars are going to be a bigger part of the vehicle mix in future than they have been to date. That much is abundantly clear. Electric cars are one of four significant forces that will likely change what we think of as an "automobile" forever, the others being autonomy, connectivity...
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2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV to ship to dealers before end of year
General Motors has always had an aggressive schedule for launching its 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV, the industry's first mass-priced electric car with 200 miles or more of range. It was revealed as a concept just 18 months ago at the 2015 Detroit Auto Show, with a production version unveiled at this...
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The 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV will start full-scale production in October, a new report says.
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Tesla now building 2,000 electric cars a week, it says
As with any auto manufacturer, the vehicle production rate at Tesla Motors is intensely scrutinized by shareholders, fans, financial analysts, and competitors. Almost two years ago, CEO Elon Musk had said that the electric-car maker expected to be operating at a "run rate" of 100,000 cars a year by...
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Toyota at 9 million hybrids, now makes more than 1 million a year
Toyota says it has sold 9 million hybrids globally.
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Tesla Model 3 targets: 100K in 2017, 400K in 2018, say skeptical suppliers
Tesla Motors' audacious goal of building half a million cars a year by the end of 2018 will require boosting its production by a factor of 10 over just two and a half years. And it will require nothing less than a reorientation of the entire company toward manufacturing, even as vehicle development...
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50,000th Nissan Leaf electric car built in U.K. plant
Nissan's Sunderland plant recently built its 50,000th Leaf electric car.
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2017 Chevy Bolt EV pre-production cars now being built (video)
There are just nine days to go before the much-hyped Tesla Model 3 is unveiled to the world. But it appears that the makers of a different affordable 200-mile electric car wanted to point out that their car will actually precede the Model 3 into production by at least a year. Chevy said today that...
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Tesla acquires an automotive supplier as it seeks to grow electric-car production.
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Toyota Prius Plug-In Production To End In June; New One Coming Next Year
Toyota Prius Plug-In Hybrid production will end next month, but a new version won't arrive until next year.
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2015 Chevrolet Volt Production Ends To Retool For All-New 2016 Volt Launch
2015 Chevrolet Volt production will end next month for retooling and to clear inventory.
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BMW i8 Plug-In Hybrid Coupe Production Will Double To Meet Demand
BMW is increasing i8 production to cut wait times.
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Tesla Model S P85D Hot Rod Now Has Shortest Delivery Time
Tesla is prioritizing Model S P85D deliveries.
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Smaller Chevy Colorado Pickup A Hit: Plant Adds 3rd Shift To Meet Demand
Chevrolet is expanding Colorado production to meet anticipated demand.
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While Tesla likely won't reveal last year's total production of Model S electric cars until it releases year-end financial results, it has said it expected to build 33,000 during 2014. And with the Model S in production for more than two and a half years, clearly there are tens of thousands of them on the roads. But how many? DON'T MISS: Tesla Model S Aluminum Body: Why Repair Costs Are Higher It seemed worthwhile to do a little real-world research to determine how far Model S production had reached by year-end. So we visited the Tesla display at this week's Detroit Auto Show media preview...
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Strong Demand For BMW i8 Plug-In Hybrid Coupe May Presage Production Rise
BMW may increase i8 production to reduce wait times.
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Tesla Hiring At Second California Facility, Ex-Chrysler Plant
Tesla is seeking workers for a new facility, a former Chrysler parts-distribution plant in Lathrop, California.
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2014 BMW i3 Electric-Car Production Rises To Meet Strong Demand
BMW is on track to build twice as many i3 electric cars in 2014 as it originally planned.
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Why A Gigafactory? Tesla Used 1/3 Of All Electric-Car Batteries Last Year
The 210,000 plug-in electric vehicles sold around the world last year used a lot of lithium-ion batteries. But if startup automaker Tesla Motors has its way, it will soon need as many lithium-ion cells (of the 18650 format it uses) as are now built worldwide. That's why the company plans to release...
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How Many Tesla Model S Electric Cars Have Been Built So Far?
Car production data may cause some eyes to glaze over, but the numbers are closely followed in the auto industry. Electric-car maker Tesla Motors doesn't report its exact sales, nor its precise production, so a cottage industry has sprung up to track its alleged production. MORE: Tesla's Next...
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