Ford has not historically been a leader in hybrid or electric vehicle technology. Toyota and Honda very clearly led the introduction of mass-market hybrid electric vehicles. More recently, Nissan and GM have led the burgeoning 100% […]
The US Department of Energy (DOE) recently announced that about twice as many electric vehicles were sold in the first half of 2013 compared to the first half of 2012. The DOE noted the very low […]
The Renault Zoe EV — a French electric car that is currently sold in France, the UK, Germany, Italy, and Spain — has just gotten an iPad app that is supposed to be pretty innovative. The […]
Something that I think not many people are aware of is that some green cars are only produced because of California’s strict laws aimed at greening the automobile industry. Unfortunately, while some automakers get the underlying […]
Green Car Reports recently stumbled across an interesting fact — 100% electric vehicles (led by the Nissan Leaf and Tesla Model S) have actually outsold plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) in the first half of 2013 […]
Ready for our monthly US electric vehicle sales (including hybrid sales) update? How could you not be? Below is the full table, including comparisons between June 2013 sales and June 2012 sales as well as between […]
Note: these sales stats are for the US only. First of all, apologies for the long delay on this one! Unfortunately, I was unable to work for about a week (very not fun stuff), and this […]
Ford sold more hybrid vehicles in just the first five months of 2013 than it did in any previous full years. The first five months of 2013 saw Ford sell over 37,000 hybrid vehicles. That even […]
Maps. Electric vehicles. Interactive. What’s not to love! The California Center for Sustainable Energy (CCSE), which administers California’s Clean Vehicle Rebate Project (CVRP), has created a cool new map that shows were plug-in electric vehicles (whose owners […]
Sales of the Nissan Leaf are booming in Norway. The popular electric vehicle was the second best-selling car, of any type, in the country during the month of April. The Nissan Leaf sold 455 units in […]
Compared to April 2012, not many automakers can be too happy about their hybrid and electric vehicle sales. Basically, just Nissan and Ford have something to cheer about, and they certainly do!
I put up a post yesterday on plug-in electric vehicle (including plugin-hybrid electric vehicle) sales for March 2013 and Quarter 1 2013. For an even broader look at “green car” sales (personally, if it’s not a […]
New research conducted by Autodata Corp. shows that hybrid electric vehicle sales were up 32% for the first two months of this year, compared to the same period last year. This is not surprising at all […]
I wrote yesterday that the Nissan Leaf beat the Volt (by quite a bit) in March sales — to be specific, 2,236 to 1,478. Looking at the full quarter, however, the Volt was on top. The Volt had 4,244 sales, […]
March sales numbers are in for the Nissan Leaf & Chevy Volt. After lagging the Volt for many months, Leaf sales shot up and (as you can see in the title) far surpassed Volt sales for […]
