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Never Fear, More Priuses Will Be Here! Or Not. It Depends

Green Car Reports

If you want to buy a new 2011 Toyota Prius hybrid these days, you may have to scramble. In auto industry terms, that means "sold out," and dealers are charging higher markups on the few precious Priuses they still have. Two days ago, Toyota. 75,000 coming.

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Was the Jeep Wrangler 4xe 2021’s 3rd Highest-Selling EV in the US?

EV Adoption

I’m estimating 28,000 as an executive with a leading auto analyst firm confirmed to me privately that their registration estimates for 2021 put the RAV4 Prime and Wrangler 4xe as a toss up. Auto Industry Analyst. From where I sit, a new PHEV from Jeep outselling the Toyota RAV4 Prime is actually pretty impressive.

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New: EVAdoption Quarterly US Electric Vehicle (EV) Sales Scoreboard

EV Adoption

We recognize that this scoreboard has limited value today due to the small number and randomness of the these 9 EVs currently included, but part of our goal is to shine a light on the general lack of transparency in the auto industry when it comes to US EV sales data. New to the scoreboard in Q3 was the Audi e-tron GT.

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Automotive Market Research Perspectives on Selling Green in a Try-to-Survive Market

Green Car Congress

The role of emotion in buying cars. Would you buy this vehicle? ” Why is the Prius a success? The panel identified three reasons why the Prius was a success: First, the Prius makes a strong statement about environmental responsibility. Second, the Prius has a high quality of execution.

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Will green cars put industry on road to profit?

Green Cars News

This failure, it believes, has prompted US car manufacturers to lose market share to foreign rivals and particularly those from Japan such as Toyota and Honda. Yet when gas prices tumbled later that year, plans for the Prius plant were shelved. Does something need to be done to push petrol prices up? Leave a comment with your thoughts.

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Electric Car Watch #4: Toyota is the new Kodak

Plug In India

In this week’s episode we will talk about about Toyota - the behemoth in the car world and their poor plans for EV's which will result in them loosing significant market share by 2030. Video: Toyota: Dead by 2030 Toyota's Hybrids and Hydrogen car distraction tactics Toyota, as you know, is the world's largest car manufacturer.

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A 100 m.p.g. truck? A Bright IDEA | Freep.com | Detroit Free Press

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Three years ago, the magazine Popular Mechanics even wrote an article prodding the auto industry for not building the 100 m.p.g. Not what you think When the wrap finally comes off, though, I think there will be some surprise for anyone who had hopes of rushing out to a dealership to buy their first 100 m.p.g. Yep, a truck.

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