Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Overall light-duty vehicle sales were essentially flat for the month, according to figures from Autodata, with 746,928 units sold in November 2009, compared to 746,789 units in November 2008. new vehicle market share, up from 2.2% new vehicle market share, up from 2.2% new light-duty vehicle market share.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

by volume from the year before to a combined 15,400 units, a lower rate of decline than that of the overall light-duty vehicle market in the month. Total light duty vehicle sales in the US dropped 37.1% to 315,863 units in January, while sales of light trucks dropped 37.8% 19 Aura hybrids, representing 1.4%

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2009

Reported sales of light-duty hybrids in the US dropped 29% by volume in February year-on-year to 16,020 units. The decline in hybrids was less than the 41% decline in the overall light-duty vehicle market for the month. of the new vehicle market, essentially flat with the January 2009 results. of all Auras sold.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2009

Hybrid new vehicle market share by month. by volume in June 2009 year-on-year to 26,205 units, representing 3% of new vehicles sold—marking the highest monthly new vehicle share since April 2008, and the fourth straight month of increasing share. new vehicle share. new vehicle share. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2009

US sales of hybrids in March 2009 as reported by the automakers dropped 44% by volume year-on-year to 21,433 units; that performance was worse than the total light duty vehicle market, which posted a 36.8% new vehicle market share for hybrids in March—down from 2.82% in March 2008, but the highest mark so far in 2009.

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Green Cars News

JULY 5, 2009

This meant that a total of 26,205 hybrid units were sold - some three per cent of all new vehicles, the highest monthly new vehicle share since April 2008. Indeed sales of hybrids have significantly out-performed the total light duty vehicle market, which dropped by 27.7 Reported sales of hybrids in the US increased by 5.2

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2009

At the recent SAE 2009 World Congress in Detroit, General Motors engineers presented the first front-wheel-drive (FWD) iteration of their two-mode hybrid transaxle, termed the 2MT70 ( earlier post ), scheduled for its first application in the Saturn 2009 VUE 2-Mode Hybrid light sport-utility vehicle later this year ( earlier post ).

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