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Toyota says it's received 1,900 requests for the 1,000 2016 Mirai build slots.
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Plug-in Electric Car Sales In Canada, September 2015: Triple-Triple
With a "double-double" being Canadian shorthand for a coffee with two creams and two sugars, we might call September a "triple-triple": Three plug-in electric car models hit the 100-sales mark last month. Chevy sold 126 first-generation Volts in Canada in September, down slightly from August's 167...
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Plug-In Electric Car Sales In Sep: Waiting On Better 2016 Models
Sales of plug-in electric cars in the U.S. had a low-to-average month in September, with the sole bright spot being the astounding sales of the BMW i3 electric hatchback. Two new 2016 models, the entirely redesigned Chevy Volt and the longer-range 107-mile Nissan Leaf, should start this month, but...
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Tesla Delivered 11,580 Cars In Q3; Can It Meet Full-Year Goal?
While it still refuses to report standard monthly U.S. sales like other carmakers, Tesla Motors now at least reports quarterly global sales of its electric cars. During the third quarter--July through September--Tesla said last week that it delivered 11,580 cars, all but six of them presumably its...
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Plug-in Electric Car Sales in Canada, August 2015: Still Chasing Chevy
The first-generation Chevy Volt notched 167 new Canadian customers in August, building on its sector-leading 150 July plug-in electric vehicle sales north of the 49th parallel. Though this represents a slight year-over-year drop from last August's 186 Volts, it's encouraging that sales have...
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Plug-In Electric Car Sales In August: Calm Before The Storm? (FINAL UPDATE)
With the Labor Day holiday imminent--falling well into September this year--industry analysts have expected U.S. new-car sales for August to be less buoyant than they might otherwise be. But in the lower-volume world of plug-in electric cars, model cycles remain the driving factor. The...
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While May was a good month for sales of plug-in electric cars, the numbers sagged in June--and they appear to be doing the same for July. Last month's sales data has now arrived, and it looks like the lack of new and exciting plug-in vehicles, plus buyers' continuing infatuation with SUVs, have kept plug-in sales roughly 30 percent below last year's levels for the same period. DON'T MISS: Georgia Kills Electric-Car Incentive For July, 1,174 Nissan Leaf electric cars were sold, for a seven-month total this year of 10,990. That was far lower than the 3,019 sold last July--the fourth-best Leaf...
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Plug-in Electric Car Sales in Canada, July 2015: Volt Vaults To Top?
The Chevrolet Volt sold 150 units in Canada in July, by far its best showing this year. Volume was up both from June's 120 sales, and year-over-year from last July's 132 customers. With Tesla sales historically slower in the first month of a quarter, the Volt may have ended the Model S's...
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Plug-In Electric Car Sales Soar Globally Even As U.S. Is Flat This Year
Gasoline prices remain low and sales of plug-in electric cars this year are only about equal to last year's levels. That's led to a number of articles from general media outlets (some of them rather lacking in context) questioning whether electric-car sales have stalled or whether plug-in cars have...
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Tesla Model S Outsold Nissan Leaf In U.S. During Q1: Report
It's one of the great frustrations for journalists in reporting on electric cars: Tesla Motors refuses to release its monthly deliveries of cars, unlike every other legitimate automaker. The company now gives a global sales total every quarter, but that doesn't help in adding accurate U.S. sales...
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Plug-in Electric Car Sales In Canada, June 2015: Dial 'S' For Summer (UPDATED)
On July 1, Canadians celebrated the country's founding on the three principles of Peace, Order, and Good Government. The same day, electric-car advocates took heart from the announcement of a pro-plug-in policy by one of the front-runners in the country's federal election this fall. But given that...
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Plug-In Electric Car Sales In June: Leaf, Volt Wane After May Surge: FINAL UPDATE
New cars and trucks are selling at a blistering pace in the U.S. right now, adding to a seventh consecutive year of volume growth for the industry. But with half the year gone, sales of plug-in electric cars are in something of a holding pattern despite a surge last month, pending the launch of two...
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Keeping to its promise of releasing quarterly global sales totals in a timely fashion, Tesla Motors announced its second-quarter delivery totals this morning. According to the Silicon Valley carmaker, it delivered 11,507 Model S luxury electric cars from April 1 through June 30. That is its highest quarterly total thus far, and brings Tesla's global deliveries for the first half of 2015 to 21,537 cars. DON'T MISS: Tesla Motors Releases Quarterly Sales: 10,030 Cars Sold Globally Jan-Mar (Apr 2015) Tesla's release, in its entirety, reads: Today Tesla Motors announced 11,507 Model S deliveries...
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Electric Cars Will Take 10 Years To Hit 1 Million Annual Sales: Analysis
Last year, roughly 118,500 plug-in electric cars were sold in the U.S.--out of total vehicle sales of 16.5 million, the highest total since 2006. Since modern electric cars went on sale in December 2010, sales have increased every year. Any increase this year may not be as dramatic as in prior...
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Plug-in Electric Car Sales in Canada, May 2015: Tesla Supreme For Six Months?
Last month, we assumed that Nissan would edge Tesla during April in Canadian plug-in electric vehicle sales. Wow, were we wrong! Fully 167 Tesla Model S electric luxury sedans were registered in Canada that month, outpacing the 127 Leafs Nissan delivered. Not wanting to underestimate Tesla for two...
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Plug-In Electric Car Sales In May: Leaf, Volt, Others Surge: FINAL UPDATE
As spring arrives, sales of plug-in electric cars have traditionally risen from their winter levels. During the months of May through August, monthly sales are usually among the highest of the year. At least for May, that rule holds as strongly for 2015 as it did last year. DON'T MISS: Will 2015...
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Fortune Puts Volt In 'Dustbin Of History' Despite New Model Coming (UPDATE)
Two carmakers sell plug-in electric cars; one is a pricey, sexy all-electric sport sedan, the other a range-extended electric compact hatchback. One (the Tesla Model S) is a huge success, with its maker "going from strength to strength." The other (the Chevy Volt) is "headed to the dustbin of...
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FTC Calls Michigan's Tesla Ban 'Protectionism' For Dealers
Tesla Motors has had varied success in its efforts to fight state laws making its direct online-sales model illegal. The electric-car maker lost a round in Michigan last fall, but now a government agency has weighed in on Michigan's revision to its franchise law. Let's just say that the U.S...
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Sales of plug-in electric cars in April held few real surprises, coming in at about the average rate of previous months. The now-aging Nissan Leaf saw deliveries of 1,553 units last month, bringing the year's total to 5,638 and the total delivered in the U.S. since December 2010 to almost 78,000. The Leaf is by far the world's best-selling electric car, with global sales expected to cross the 200,000 mark sometime this summer. DON'T MISS: Plug-In Electric Car Sales Continue Rise In 2014, To 118,500 The range-extended electric Chevrolet Volt, meanwhile, saw 905 sales and leases in April, its...
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Has Elon Musk Cut Tesla's 2015 Electric-Car Guidance A Bit, Maybe?
After the New York financial markets close this afternoon, Tesla Motors will release its first-quarter financial results and its quarterly letter to shareholders. The company announced last month, just after the close of the quarter, that it had delivered 10,030 Model S electric cars. DON'T MISS...
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Will 2015 Plug-In Electric Car Sales Exceed Last Year's Total?
With most of the data now in for April sales of plug-in electric cars, it's looking as though the first four months of 2015 aren't seeing notably higher numbers than those of 2014. As always, there's some slop in the numbers because Tesla Motors, Fiat Chrysler, and Kia Motors refuse to break out...
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Plug-in Electric Car Sales in Canada, Apr 2015: Leaf Likely Leads After Tesla March Madness
The Tesla Model S now owns the record for the most electric car sales in Canada in a single month To borrow from the popular song, Canada's plug-in electric vehicle market in March was "all about that S". Based on registration data, which lags by a month, Tesla sold a whopping 250 Model Ses in...
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How Maryland's Tesla Sales Bill Really Got Passed: Its Sponsor Tells The Story (Video)
Last week, barely minutes before it adjourned, the Maryland House of Representatives passed a bill authorizing Tesla Motors to sell its electric cars from up to four stores in the state. Now, courtesy of a video sent in by a reader, we can hear that bill's sponsor describe the process that led to...
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China To Top U.S. Electric-Car Sales? Why Stats Don't Compare
Not all electric vehicles are created the same--and that's an important point to keep in mind when you read stories about how China's electric-car market is set to overtake that of the U.S. Last year, roughly 118,000 battery-electric and plug-in hybrid cars were sold in the U.S. In China, monthly...
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