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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 2016. That brings its total for last year to 76,230 vehicles—less than the low end of its guidance to financial analysts, which had been for 80,000 units. DON'T MISS: Waits for Tesla service get longer as more electric cars are sold Of its fourth-quarter deliveries, 12,700 were the Model S...
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Electric-car market share in 2020: estimates vary widely
Of the new cars sold globally in 2020, what percentage will be electric? It's a simple question, but at the moment there doesn't appear to be a clear answer. Estimates of electric-car market share approximately three years from now vary widely, as do those for periods further beyond that. DON'T...
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This is the best week of the year to buy a green car
The last week of the year is the best time to buy a new car.
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Sales of 'green' cars remain low; is it a problem of fear?
Consumer fear of green cars may be hurting sales, one analyst believes.
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Electric-car group buying programs spread into new states
New states are enacting electric-car group buying programs.
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Electric cars are on the market, so where are all the ads?
Automakers put relatively little effort into electric-car advertising, according to the Sierra Club.
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A Boston-area dealer is optimistic about electric cars.
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European electric and plug-in hybrid sales for Jan-Oct 2016
The Renault Zoe remained the best-selling electric car in Europe through October.
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GM Europe exec sees 10 to 15 percent electric cars by 2030
Opel's head of electrification anticipates a relatively slow ramp up for electric cars.
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BMW plans to sell 100,000 plug-in cars in 2017, CEO says
BMW aims to sell 100,000 electric cars and plug-in hybrids next year.
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Plug-in electric car sales in Canada, Nov 2016: Bolts from the blue?
Canada's first three Chevrolet Bolt EVs were registered in October, no doubt for media test-drives and dealership training ahead of the 238-mile electric car's Canadian launch. That event is expected to take place early next year, but with photos of truckloads of Bolt EVs headed for U.S. dealers...
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Modern electric cars at 20: from EV1 to Bolt EV, where are we now?
Twenty years ago today, the very first GM EV1 electric cars were delivered to 40 lessees in California in a blaze of publicity. Since then, plug-in electric vehicles have seen more than their share of ups and downs. That first EV1 was a high-tech two-seater created specifically to meet California's...
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Traditionally, the North American winter months have seen a slowdown in sales of plug-in electric cars—but the rule didn't seem to apply last month. Strong vehicle sales for November led analysts to suggest this could be another record year for U.S. sales, or at close. And several plug-in cars set new monthly records. Last month, sales of the Nissan Leaf electric car actually increased over last year's comparable number, while those of the Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid soared. DON'T MISS: Plug-in electric car sales for Oct: steady before Bolt EV, Prius Prime arrival While no Chevy Bolt...
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250,000th plug-in electric car to be sold in California alone this month
It's long been obvious that California is the epicenter of emission reduction and electric-car adoption in the United States. And its outsize influence on U.S. environmental policy has global ramifications as well. Of the 1.25 million plug-in vehicles estimated to be on global roads by the end of...
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European electric and plug-in hybrid sales for Jan-Sep 2016
The Renault Zoe remained the best-selling electric car in Europe through September 2016, while the Mitsubishi Outlander Plug-In Hybrid maintained its status as the best-selling plug-in hybrid.
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BMW crosses sales of 100,000 plug-in electric cars
BMW has delivered 100,000 plug-in electric cars since November 2013, and has plans for many new models.
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Is Trump presidency the real market test for electric cars?
One week ago this morning, the U.S. and the world woke up to learn that Donald Trump would be the next president of the United States. The shockwaves of that election are still reverberating, and will do so for quite some time to come. Among the groups concerned are environmentalists, clean-energy...
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Plug-in electric car sales in Canada, October 2016: Volt's seven-peat
The Chicago Cubs won the World Series for the first time in 108 years; the Chevy Volt won the Canadian electric-car sales trophy for the seventh time in seven months. Though Chevy Volt sales in Canada fell from stratospheric to mere tropospheric levels in October, the vehicle remains Canada's...
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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 has only been occupied to date by cars with a Tesla badge.) With the first Bolt EVs expected to be sold before the end of this year, Chevy needs to get the cars into the pipeline and headed to the first dealers. DON'T MISS: 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV: video review of 238-mile electric car It's all but...
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Plug-in electric car sales for Oct: steady before Bolt EV, Prius Prime arrival (more updates)
Sales of plug-in electric cars in the U.S. continued at roughly the same pace as in previous months, at least among vehicles for which sales were reported. The Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid continued a strong if not spectacular year, with 2,191 sales in October for a 10-month total of 18,517. The...
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Should Tesla report monthly sales like other carmakers? Poll results
To those of us who cover the world of electric cars, Tesla's refusal to release its sales data in the conventional format is a continual irritant. Starting in June 2012, when the company said it didn't plan to release monthly sales because its backers didn't care, Tesla Motors has provided only...
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Electric car sales remain ahead of hybrids after five years
Sometimes, it's all about a chart. A recent survey of car buyers suggests that consumer interest in electric cars is rising, and is highest among young adults. They're the car buyers of the future, so that would seem to be good news for the long-term prospects of plug-in cars. DON'T MISS: Electric...
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U.S. passed half a million plug-in electric-car sales in September
U.S. plug-in electric car sales surpassed 500,000 in September.
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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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