Green Car Congress
JUNE 11, 2009
General Motors has announced that there will be no retail production of the Chevrolet Malibu hybrid for model year (MY) 2010 due to “elevated inventory levels of the 2009 model.” A limited amount of 2010 Malibu hybrids may be produced to fulfill fleet sales requests. 2008 Malibu hybrid.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 11, 2009
Shanghai-GM will end production of its mild hybrid Buick LaCrosse Eco-Hybrid, introduced in 2008. The Buick hybrid shares the same first-generation mild hybrid system used in the Malibu hybrid (now also suspended, earlier post ). Earlier post.)
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% drop by volume for the month compared to March 2008, based on total sales figures from Autodata ( earlier post ). Click to enlarge.
Green Car Congress
MAY 4, 2009
The reported sales represented a 2.65% hybrid new vehicle market share (based on Autodata’s total LDV sales figure)—the highest monthly new vehicle share for hybrids so far this year, but below the 3.2% high mark in April 2008. Year-to-date in 2009, hybrids are holding a 2.4% Hybrid monthly new vehicle market share.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 5, 2009
The decline in hybrids was less than the 41% decline in the overall light-duty vehicle market for the month. New hybrid sales represented 2.3% In February 2008, hybrids held 1.9% Camry Hybrid sold 2,080 units, down 49.5% The Saturn VUE hybrid posted 188 units, for 6.4% of all Malibus sold.
Green Cars News
MAY 21, 2009
For example, in 2008, it was rumoured that Toyota would build an entire brand around the Prius. Tom Stephens, vice-chairman of GM’s global product development, moved quickly to reassure customers that the hybrid technologies would still be used albeit under a different brand.
Green Cars News
MAY 4, 2009
Overall, reported sales of hybrids dropped 45.5 per cent year-on-year to 21,735 even though it incorporated a full month’s sales for new vehicles such as the Honda Insight, as well as the Ford Fusion and Mercury Milan Hybrids. Meanwhile, the Ford Escape and Mariner hybrids saw sales drop by 40.5
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