Hybrid sales up despite another down month overall, Prius leads charge
Posted Jul 4th 2009 11:02AM by Sebastian Blanco
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Initial strong sales of the 2010 Honda Insight slowed last month, but new models of the Toyota Prius and Ford Fusion helped give hybrids car sales in June 2009 a nine percent increase over last June. In the U.S., dealers sold 26,205 new hybrids in June, 49.6 of which (12,998 units) were Priuses. Compared to May, hybird sales were up two percent, according to data released by the automakers and complied by Green Car Advisor. This was the sixth month where hybrid increased in sales volumes. Potential reasons for the increase include the new models as well as rising gas prices (and the expectation thereof) and some uncommon hybrid sales incentives. Overall, sales were down for everyone but Subaru and Volvo compared to June 2008.
[Source: Green Car Advisor]
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Mark 5:00AM (7/06/2009)
I have a 2005 diesel which I don't plan on upgrading until there is a decent priced EV on sale, but are people who are buying all these hybrids now going to upgrade again in 2 years when PHEVs and EVs are on sale? I hope there will be customers left to buy the EVs when they eventually are sold.
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