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MARCH 18, 2024

Honda beat everybody to the production gasoline-electric hybrid game in the United States, putting the Insight in showrooms in 1999. Toyota followed with the Prius a year later, but it took GM until 2006 to introduce its first true gasoline-electric hybrid here. The Vue's platform outlived Saturn and still lives today, though.

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DECEMBER 8, 2009

Sales of the Saturn VUE mild hybrid were down 31% to 134 units, for 9.8% The Malibu mild hybrid sedan posted 212 units, up 371% from the year before, for 1.9% The Saturn Aura sold 29 units, down 17%, for 2.0% Nissan sold 503 Altima Hybrids in November, up 42.5% of Altima sales. of all VUEs sold.

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MARCH 5, 2009

The Saturn VUE hybrid posted 188 units, for 6.4% The Chevy Malibu Hybrid posted 197 units for 1.7% The Saturn Aura posted 23 units, representing 1.5% Annual new vehicle market share for reported US hybrids, including 2009 year-to-date. Combined sales of the Escape and Mariner hybrids fell 25.8%

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APRIL 3, 2009

GM sold a total of 1,612 hybrids in March: 609 units of the Tahoe, Yukon and Escalade two-mode SUVs (7.3% 362 units of the Saturn VUE hybrid (10.4% 547 units of the Malibu hybrid (3.7% 26 units of the Saturn Aura hybrid (1.3% Nissan posted 834 units of the Altima Hybrid, a 0.2% of total sales).

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MAY 4, 2009

General Motors sold 1,534 hybrids in April, comprising: 523 units of the two-mode SUVs (Tahoe, Yukon, Escalade), representing 4.5% 547 units of the Malibu hybrid, representing 3.7% 338 units of the Saturn VUE hybrid, representing 11.3% 31 units of the Saturn Aura hybrid, representing 1.7% of Altima sales.

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JULY 3, 2009

GM hybrids currently comprise the Chevrolet Malibu, Saturn Aura and Vue BAS hybrids; and the Tahoe, Silverado, Yukon, Sierra, and Cadillac Escalade two-mode hybrids. Nissan posted 666 units of the Altima Hybrid, down 50% from June 2008. Sales of conventional Altima models were down 32%.

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MAY 4, 2009

General Motors: The company sold 1,534 units in April which consisted of: 523 two-mode SUVS (Tahoe, Yukon Escalade); 95 two-mode pick-ups (Silverado, Sierra); 547 Malibu hybrids; 338 Saturn VUE hybrids; 31 Saturn Aura hybrids. Meanwhile, the Honda Civic Hybrid sold 3,361 units, down 22.3

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