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It appears that the 2015 Ford Focus Electric will get a major price cut of $6,000, bringing the suggested retail price to $29,995--more in line with the best-selling Nissan Leaf. The battery-electric Focus is now in its fourth model year, and only about 4,000 have been sold since it first went on sale in December 2011. That's roughly one-fifteenth the number of Nissan Leaf electric cars that have been sold (over a period one year longer). Both the Focus Electric and the Leaf are five-door hatchbacks the size of conventional compact cars, with rated ranges between 80 and 85 miles. The report...
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2015 Chevrolet Trax Crossover: Price To Start At $21,000
The 2015 Chevrolet Trax goes on sale in January.
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2015 Volkswagen e-Golf Price To Start At $36,265, Top Trim Level Only
The 2015 Volkswagen e-Golf electric car will be priced from $36,265, VW announced this morning. And the first battery-electric car ever offered in the U.S. by Volkswagen will be offered only in the very top Golf trim level, the SEL Premium model. The 2015 e-Golf goes on sale in November at selected...
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Aluminum-Bodied 2015 Ford F-150 To Cost More Than Steel Model It Replaces
The 2015 Ford F-150 will cost $395 to $3,615 more than the model it replaces.
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Nissan Leaf $5,500 Battery Replacement Loses Money, Company Admits
Last month, electric-car owners finally learned the price of a replacement battery pack for the Nissan Leaf: a surprisingly low $5,500 after the old pack is traded in. Many advocates and Leaf owners promptly seized on the price to "prove" that Nissan could now build batteries for less than $250 per...
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2015 Audi A3 TDI Diesel Luxury Sedan Priced From $32,600
While gasoline versions of the all-new 2015 Audi A3 compact luxury sedan went on sale in April, the model line also includes a TDI diesel version as well as an S3 performance sedan and an A3 Cabrio convertible. Those models will go on sale late this summer, and now pricing has been released for the...
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The redesigned 2015 Hyundai Sonata midsize sedan goes on sale later this month.
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2015 Ford F-150 Team Fights Fear Of Aluminum Toughness, Repair, Cost
Ford will educate customers, dealers, and repair shops on the the ins and outs of aluminum-bodied 2015 F-150.
Stephen Edelstein -
2014 Toyota Prius Liftback Starts At $24,025, Same As Last Year
The 2014 Toyota Prius Liftback will cost the same as a 2013 model.
Stephen Edelstein -
2014 Mitsubishi Mirage: $12,995 For 40 MPG Minicar
The specification list and gas mileage for the 2014 Mitsubishi Mirage read more like a car from the 1980s--but it's coming to market with a distinctly 2013 price tag. A five-door, light weight and aerodynamically efficient hatchback, the Mirage straddles the minicar and subcompact markets, but its...
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2013 Tesla Model S: New Options, Packages, And Prices
It's still fairly early days for the Tesla Model S, and while the car is finding fans across the globe, it's still seeing various updates and option packages that early buyers didn't have access to. Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA] has recently announced a new line of option packages and pricing for...
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2014 Chevrolet Volt Price Cut By $5,000, To $34,995
The 2014 Chevrolet Volt electric car will carry a base price of $34,995, a cut of $5,000 from the 2013 model. That price includes an $810 destination fee, but not any optional equipment. Chevrolet has "made great strides in reducing costs as we gain experience with electric vehicles and their...
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Last month, the Nissan Leaf passed the Chevrolet Volt to take this year's top spot among plug-in electric cars for sale. Now Chevy is fighting back. It announced that it will offer $5,000 cash back on remaining 2012 Volt range-extended electric cars, and $4,000 on 2013 models, according to Chevrolet spokespeople quoted yesterday. The carmaker's inventory of Volts has risen to 140 days' worth of sales, more than double the 60 days that automakers consider optimal to keep dealers supplied with cars while minimizing inventory. The sales incentives are the latest evidence of a small price war...
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Electric Car Price War? Sorta, But California Has Most Options
If you live in California right now, it's a great time to buy a plug-in electric car. Elsewhere in the country, your choices will be more limited. Three small battery-electric cars are competing on lease pricing in the Golden State, with the default monthly price seemingly $199 or close to it...
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2014 BMW i3 Electric Car Price To Be Similar To BMW 3-Series?
The production version of the BMW i3 electric car will be unveiled at September's Frankfurt Motor Show, and anticipation is building. How much BMW's first battery-electric car will cost is one of the biggest open questions. Now Ludwig Willisch, the CEO of the Bavarian maker's North American arm...
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2013 Nissan Leaf Prices To Start At $28,800 For Electric Car
We know the specifications and details of the 2013 Nissan Leaf, which has now gone into production in Smyrna, Tennessee. But the missing piece of information has always been: What will the battery electric car cost now that it's built in North America? During an electric vehicle roundtable today at...
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2014 Honda Accord Plug-In Hybrid Priced Sub-$41K, 115 MPGe
Honda has revealed pricing for its upcoming Accord plug-in hybrid at the 2012 Los Angeles Auto Show. The car will be priced from $39,780 when it goes on sale January 15 in California and New York. That's just a little higher than the recently-announced price for the 2013 Ford Fusion Energi at...
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Tesla Model S Price Increase Coming, But For New Buyers Only
Much of economics is simple: Makers of desirable, popular products can raise their prices--to some degree. One example: Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA] confirmed in a blog post yesterday that it would raise prices on its 2013 Tesla Model S all-electric sport sedan in the next two or three weeks. But...
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When it launched back in 2010, the Nissan Leaf electric hatchback was criticized for its high sticker price, due in part to its expensive battery pack. Now Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn has confirmed what had been widely rumored: Future models of the Nissan Leaf electric car will get an improved, cheaper battery pack, perhaps as soon as the 2013 model that will go on sale early next year. Talking to The Wall Street Journal last week, Ghosn said that the Japanese automaker was working hard to improve the battery pack in its first all-electric car. “There is a second generation of battery...
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2012 Nissan Leaf Electric Cars Offered At Up To $5,000 Off
dealerships are showing 2012 Nissan Leaf SL models at fully $5000 off MSRP
George Parrott -
Is $23,750 The Right Price To Get Electric Car Sales To Soar?
There are many reasons plug-in electric car sales are still just a tiny fraction of the market. The biggest hurdle may be high price, compared to gasoline cars of the same size, right now (along with range limitations). Despite a cost-per-mile that's just a fraction of what a gasoline car costs...
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2017 Nissan Leaf: Will It Cost The Same As A 2012 Golf?
As battery technology improves, the cost of producing battery packs drops, and the number of electric cars on the road increases, it’s pretty reasonable to expect the sticker price of electric cars to drop in the coming years. But how much will they drop by, and how quickly? How much, for...
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Year-Old Nissan Leaf Electric Car: Worth 70 Or 95 Percent Of New Price?
There's lot of discussion about how the value of electric cars will hold up over time, depending on how long their expensive lithium-ion battery packs last and how quickly they may lose capacity. But now the folks who estimate used-car prices for a living, the NADA Guide, have weighed in with their...
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Is A $24,000 Price Needed For Electric Car Sales To Soar?
This past January, many commentators hailed 2011 as the year of the electric car. But as we approach the end of the year, neither Chevrolet nor Nissan has sold as many plug-in cars as it had predicted a year ago it would--due to everything from the Japanese earthquake and tsunami (Nissan) to overly...
Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield