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Well, this might upset a few martini glasses at National Automobile Dealers Association social events. A bill passed by the California State Senate two days ago allows out-of-state car buyers to take delivery of their electric cars in California without paying any sales tax. The legislation was approved 33-2 by the Senate; it now moves to the State Assembly. DON'T MISS: Where Can Tesla Legally Sell Cars Directly To You? State-By-State Map According to the Sacramento Bee, the bill's Senate sponsor, Bob Wieckowski [D-Fremont], hopes that Tesla buyers specifically will be drawn to the state to...
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BMW Admits VW Emission Scandal Hurts All Diesel Sales In U.S.
A BMW executive believes the Volkswagen scandal will hurt all U.S. diesel sales.
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GM Adds Used Cars To Online 'Shop-Click-Drive' Tool; Buyers Still Finish At Dealer
In almost every state, you can't buy a car online from its maker, owing to language in franchise laws that forbids direct sales, written at the behest of auto-dealer lobbyists. Whether or not that's a good thing, a majority of car buyers now research new cars online well before they ever set foot...
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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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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? The answer may surprise you. DON'T MISS: China Built 25,000 Electric Cars & Plug-In Hybrids In June 2015 Alone First, the known suspects: BMW, Ford, GM, Nissan, and Tesla. BMW said it sold "around 30,000" of its i3 and i8 in 2015, globally. Ford's plug-in hybrid Fusion and C-Max Energi models...
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VW Sales In U.S., Europe Slammed By Diesel Emission Scandal (UPDATED)
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...
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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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Those Tesla Customer-Referral Programs? They Really Work: Report
Tesla's customer-referral programs have generated 5,000 sales, one participant estimates.
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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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When it was unveiled at the 2009 Detroit Auto Show, the Cadillac Converj concept was widely lauded for its looks. That was likely the last time the car that became the Cadillac ELR range-extended electric luxury coupe won any praise. After an on-again, off-again, on-again history and a launch at the breathtaking price of $75,000, the ELR languished in the market from Day One. DON'T MISS: 2016 Cadillac ELR: More Performance, More Range, Lower Price It's been on sale for two years now, but only a couple of thousand have found buyers--and while updated 2016 models are now available at a few...
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Is Chevy Actually Testing New Marketing For The 2016 Volt?
The new 2016 Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid keeps and expands on all the good points of the first-generation Volt, while fixing a number of the old car's quirks. As we wrote in September, "The new Volt's a great car, and brings practical electric drive to U.S. drivers without a shred of range...
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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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Low Gas Prices Lead To Lower 2016 Toyota Prius Global Sales Targets
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...
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Electric Car 'Outrage': Obama Goal Missed, Dubious TV Report Dissected
"Billions of your tax dollars were spent to put a million electric cars on the road by the end of this year. You might be outraged when you hear what happened." Sounds shocking, doesn't it? Also perhaps vaguely reminiscent of 2011 and 2012, when uninformed, context-free, and factually-wrong "news"...
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Volkswagen prices continue to slip as the diesel scandal continues.
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Tesla Continues To Try To Sell Electric Cars In Michigan; State Ignores It
Tesla wants to crack Michigan's direct-sales ban.
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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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Most Car Dealers Are Lousy At Selling Electric Cars: Here's Why
Dealers still aren't enthusiastic about selling electric cars, a new report finds.
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First 2016 Toyota Mirai Fuel-Cell Car Delivered in California
The first 2016 Toyota Mirai for the U.S. was delivered in California earlier this month.
Stephen Edelstein