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Diesel torque continues to propel VW and Audi sales

Diesel-powered light duty vehicles remain in short supply in the United States and, until the VW Golf TDI arrives this fall, the Jetta remains the only relatively affordable example. The Jetta however, seems to powering Volkswagen sales in the U.S. right now and TDI versions of the Touareg and Audi's Q7 SUVs are also helping those models stay afloat. Just as in June, 81 percent of Jetta SportWagen sales last month were of the compression ignition variety. Although there were some sporadic reports of availability late in the month, most of ... Read more →

2009: Year of the hybrid sales boom bust? Sebastian Blanco

Three things to note: The new Honda Insight went on sale in Japan earlier this year and has been selling well. Toyota has sold a million hybrids in the U.S. Ford has built 100,00 hybrid ...

Toyota to Ford: 100,000 hybrids? That's cute. We've sold a million in the U.S. Sebastian Blanco

Yesterday, Ford announced it had built its 100,000th hybrid SUV. Today, Toyota coyly released a statement that outshines the Blue Oval 10-to-1. Toyota Motor Sales has now sold more than one ...

Toyota, Honda hybrid sales drop in 2008; 5 FCX Clarity models sold Sebastian Blanco

We've already taken a look at the 2,555 hybrids that GM sold in December and the 14,439 hybrid vehicles it sold in 2008, but what about the other major automakers? Not every automaker reports ...

US electric car sales slow to a trickle Sebastian Blanco

Not that long ago, electric vehicle (EV) sales and prospects were up, up, up. Now, though, things are not so hot. The latest bit of bad news can be found in DailyTech, which details a drop in ...

Tesla hires former Harley Davidson exec for sales/marketing post 11 months ago on Autoblog Green

Now that Darryl Siry has left the building we know who the new sales boss is at Tesla Motors. Michael van der Sande from Harley Davidson will be joining Tesla in the senior VP role responsible for sales and marketing. As a veteran of Harley Davidson, van der Sande clearly has experience nurturing a ...

Zap sells $737,000 worth of electric vehicles in August 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Zap's been having a pretty good last few weeks. There was the groundbreaking at the Kentucky plant and now we hear that August electric vehicle sales set a new record. According to a new release from Zap (pasted after the jump), the company sold $737,000 worth (unaudited) of vehicles in August, ...

Vectrix sales get their scoot on, more affordable model coming next year 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

It seems the sales of the Vectrix electric maxi-scooter have finally caught on fire. At the beginning of the year we were somewhat saddened to report that they had only sold a disappointing 123 of their innovative machines. Since then, the price has been chopped from just under $12,000 to a much ...

Mini maintains its sales domination, Hummer continues its downward spiral 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Every month, our intrepid leader over at Autoblog crunches every automaker's U.S. sales figures and dutifully reports how well each brand is doing. This month continues the trend of fuel efficient vehicles recording record sales and closely mimics the trend of gas-guzzlers going down the toilet. The ...

TH!NK could be put on sale in Australia 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Th!nk UK managing director Richard Blundell said that their all-electric car could be put on sale in Australia without too much hassle. The reason? The Th!nk City, which Blundell pointed out is a real car and not a quadricycle (NEV), is designed to satisfy both EU and U. S. highway safety features ...

New York 2008: will Prius sales make up for slowing Tundra sales? 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

At the New York Auto Show, Toyota U.S. General Manager Bob Carter spoke with Bloomberg about high fuel prices and the full-size truck market (see video below the fold). Carter said "we are not immune to what the current market conditions are and many full-size truck owners are delaying their ...

GM: by 2015, one-third of our US car sales will be hybrids, and the V-8 engine will quasi-disappear 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

What will you be driving in 2015? If you only drive GM vehicles, there's a one in three chance it'll be a hybrid, according to a report from Bloomberg. GM Vice Chairman Bob Lutz said, "around 2015 we're going to have to sell a ton of hybrids whether people want them or not." Lutz added, "it's ...

Despite Goverment efforts and high gas prices, Britons are buying more polluting cars 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Although other sources state that Britons are buying smaller and more efficient cars during this year, used car hypermarket chain Carcraft announced that they sold more used dirtier cars in 2007 than ever, despite the higher vehicle duty (tax) and the higher cost of gasoline. According to Carcraft ...

Lexus says hybrid technology "defines" the Lexus brand in Europe 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

When I (an American) think about the Lexus brand, the first thing that comes to mind is not its hybrid option. In Europe, it seems Lexus and hybrid are synonymous because a Lexus official told the BBC, "Hybrid is Lexus brand defining technology." We have written about the increasing Lexus hybrid ...

In China, Toyota cuts price of Prius by 8% due to slowing sales 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

The Prius is not doing well in China. According to Gasgoo.com, Toyota sold 2,152 Priuses in 2006 but the number dropped to 414 in 2007. Hoping to stop slowing sales, Toyota is trying price cuts, the first since the green car was introduced to China in 2005. The second-generation and Navigation ...

Study: green cars to outsell gas guzzlers this year in the UK 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Vehicles in the UK are grouped into tax bands from A to G, depending on how much CO2 they emit. Cars ranked A and B are the greenest (and least taxed) while cars ranked G are the ones that emit the most CO2 (and drivers have to pay more). Since the tax bands were instituted, sales of A, B band cars ...

Did Toyota hybrid sales peak in 2007? 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/environment/Did_Toyota_hybrid_sales_peak_in_2007'; 2007 was a good year for hybrid sales. Total US sales in hybrids for 2007 were 40 percent higher than hybrid sales in 2006. Market-research firm J.D. Power & Associates thinks the total sales increase from 2007 to ...

Hybrids one of the few July sales highlights, up 12% for the month 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

While July 2007 sales were down for the vast majority of brands including Toyota, hybrids continued to show retail strength. Total sales of hybrids hit 28,585 in July an increase of 12% from the previous year with a 2.2% market share. The Prius continues to steam along hitting 16,062, a bump of ...

Ford Focus the one bright spot among domestic small car sales 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

While the sales of other domestic brand small cars like the Chevy Aveo and Cobalt, Pontiac Vibe and Dodge Caliber all had sales declines in June compared to 2006, one big exception is the Ford Focus. June sales of the Focus jumper by almost twenty percent. This all happened in spite of gas prices ...

Toyota first half hybrid sales up 69% over 2006 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Toyota sales are still on a roll through the first half of 2007, particularly their sales of hybrid vehicles. While Toyota sales are up 9.1 percent for the first six months of the year, sales of Toyota hybrids have jumped 69 percent to a total of 146,536 units. Prius sales are particularly ...

Toyota: not just a million hybrids sold worldwide... 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Toyota also projects that they will sell 250,000 hybrids in America this year alone. We wanted to highlight this little tidbit, which was included in the release we wrote about yesterday. New models such as the Camry hybrid, GS 450h, RX 400h, LS 600hL make this a pretty realistic goal. Of course, ...

Toyota tops 1 Million worldwide hybrid sales 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

The pioneer in bringing production hybrid vehicles to market has just achieved a major new milestone. As of the end of May, Toyota has sold 1.047 million hybrid drive vehicles around the world since the introduction of the original Prius a decade ago. Toyota is now building hybrid vehicles in ...

Tesla VP responds to dealer criticism of sales plans 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

After the recent announcement from Tesla Motors about their plans to set up a network of company owned retail outlets to sell and service the Roadster and future models, some traditional franchised dealers responded in a negative way. First of all aside from issues like pensions and health care, the ...

Britsh hybrid sales double in the past year 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Gas-electric hybrid cars are still a very small segment of the market in Europe, but they are starting to pick up some steam, at least in England. So far in 2007 hybrid sales are up 111 percent compared to 2006 rising from 3,117 to 6,568 units. A monthly record of 604 Honda Civic Hybrids were sold ...

eEVOutlet launches online marketplace for alternative drive cars 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

A new online sales site specializing in hybrid and electric is being launched by Rocket City Automotive Group. People will be able to buy and sell electrically driven vehicles through eEVoutlet.com. Similar to eBay, users will have to pay a listing fee to put their car on the site and can also pay ...

Gas prices are up! People aren't buying hybrids! Sales up 26%! 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

One thing is beyond doubt, the price of gas is going up. Right now in southeast Michigan it's at about $3.20 a gallon and at the rate it's been climbing it will likely be at $3.50 by Memorial Day. So you would think that under these circumstances anyone who is actually looking at a new car would be ...

New Smart ForTwo off to a quick start in Germany 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

The second generation Smart ForTwo and the latest generation of the Mercedes-Benz C-Class officially went on sale in Europe last week and jumped right out of the gates. Over the weekend German Mercedes and Smart dealers experienced their busiest weekend ever, with 470,000 customers coming in to ...

Tesla to open customer service centers in 2007 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

When Tesla Motors CEO Martin Eberhard talked to AutoblogGreen recently, he said that Tesla would not be using traditional franchised dealers to sell their electric cars. Instead, they will be establishing company owned customer centers around the country. For established car-makers with dealer ...

Hybrid sales jump 11% in January 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Even though gasoline prices stayed low in January, particularly in the first half of the month, sales of hybrids climbed eleven percent compared to 2006. General Motors doesn't break out sales of the Saturn Vue hybrid so they aren't included, but all the other hybrids sold a combined total of ...

Toyota looking for 40% increase in hybrid sales this year 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Last year, Toyota's hybrid sales increased by thirty-three percent and this year the company is aiming for forty percent, with total worldwide sales of 430,000 vehicles. Toyota is also planning to increase production of the Prius by forty percent to 280,000 annually. It will be interesting to watch ...

Hybrid sales chained to fuel prices? 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

CNW Marketing Research is reporting that around 30 percent of car shoppers were considering a hybrid a year back, and willing to pay a premium of almost $2,500 over a non-hybrid for the privilege. The interest level has dropped to just 12 percent now however, and the premium that's acceptable has ...

In Australia, the bicycle is king 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

This statistic astounds me, but bicycle sales extended their lead over new car sales in Australia during 2006. Australia's peak bicycle promotion group, the Cycling Promotion Fund (CPF), says that 1,273,781 new bikes were sold last year, 32 percent more than new car and truck sales totalling ...

Hybrid sales slipping due to reduced gas prices and lost tax incentives 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Hybrid vehicles hit their record sales in July of this year, which coincides nicely with some of the priciest gasoline ever on record. From September to November, however, sales for the Toyota Prius dropped by over 22 percent. Reasons for the sales drop abound, with lowered gas prices, Toyota ...

Sales of hybrids drop in September, sort of 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

Now that the September vehicle sales numbers are out, some more detailed analysis has been done and the results for hybrid vehicles are decidedly mixed. Overall sales dipped 1.9 percent compared to September 2005, while hybrid vehicles climbed 21.5 percent year to year. A total of 23,301 hybrids ...

European Toyota hybrid sales pass the 50,000 mark 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

The European diesel-dominated market is showing signs of slowly warming up to hybrid vehicles. Toyota Motor Europe recently announced that the cumulative European sales of both Toyota and Lexus hybrid vehicles passed 50,000 units. A total of about 41,000 Prius hybrids have been sold since it went on ...

Not so hot hybrids 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

The Detroit News reports that sales of certain hybrids, especially larger ones, aren’t quite what Toyota, Ford and Honda were hoping for. Carlos Ghosn throws around the “I told you so” line to whomever is listening after having warned in the past about the economic sense (or ...


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