Going Green: Hybrid sales increase again in August
2010 Honda Insight - Click above for high-res image gallery
Buoyed by Cash for Clunkers for the second month in a row, hybrid sales looked pretty darn good overall. Let's look at a few numbers. The biggest winner of the month was Nissan, which posted an almost unheard of 207-percent gain last month over August of 2008. Delving a bit deeper, Nissan's 3,164 Altima Hybrid sales were three times the 1,030 such vehicles sold in July.
As you would expect, Toyota grabbed the largest percentage of market share last month (nearly 50 percent), and the Prius was the main driver. All told, the automaker moved 18,886 Prius hybrids last month – while good, that's actually down 1.5 percent from July. Honda was second in hybrid market share and thanks to the new Insight with 4,226 sales last month.
Ford didn't fare particularly well in hybrid sales in August with a 12.3 percent decline in total. General Motors, on the other hand, saw its hybrid sales increase by 14.9 percent last month. Still, GM's overall market share is tiny and none of its models broke triple digits in July. Click here for a very thorough breakdown of August's hybrid sales figures.
Gallery: 2010 Honda Insight
[Source: Green Car Advisor]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
TIMMAH! 9:14PM (9/05/2009)
Yes, but how much are these numbers being skewed by the Cash for Clunkers program?
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Rick 9:27PM (9/05/2009)
a lot - I'm thinking this big successful program probably didn't do much except buy time. Automakers are getting 2 good months of sales out of it - then back to wherever they were before that.
Rick 9:26PM (9/05/2009)
Honda really blew it on the fake Prius didn't they?
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Patrick 11:26AM (9/06/2009)
The limiting factor on Prius sales in the U.S. is not U.S. demand. It is the fact that they can be sold for higher prices in the rest of the world.
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why not the LS2LS7? 1:38PM (9/06/2009)
I think most of GM's hybrid boost probably came from the stimulus, a portion of which was dedicated to the government buying hybrid vehicles from US manufacturers. So they likely bought some Malibu hybrids even though they don't really make enough sense for anyone else to buy.
Although here in California I have seen a quite a few 2-mode Hybrid GM SUVs lately.
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