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Tesla Now 8th Best Selling Auto Brand In USA — US Auto Sales Up 9%, But Down 11% vs. 2019

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It’s time for another quarterly report on US auto sales. Like a few other major news outlets, I track total quarterly sales of the US auto industry, but I also conduct a thorough analysis of the trends of each automaker. Furthermore, I compare last quarter’s sales not just to the same quarter last year, but […]

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BMW Group US electrified vehicle sales down 22.6% in June

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BMW Group sales of electric and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles decreased 22.6% in June 2019 vs. June 2018. These models and a plug-in-hybrid variant of the BMW X3 will begin sales in the US at a future date. Overall, sales of BMW brand vehicles increased 7.5%

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USA Rare Earth acquires US rare earth permanent magnet manufacturing capability from Hitachi; mine-to-magnet

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USA Rare Earth, LLC, the funding and development partner of the Round Top Heavy Rare Earth and Critical Minerals Project in West Texas, has purchased the neodymium iron boron (NdFeB) permanent magnet manufacturing equipment formerly owned and operated in North Carolina by Hitachi Metals America, Ltd. billion in 2027.

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BMW Group electrified vehicle US sales down 42.7% in February; X models account for 55.5% of BMW brand sales

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BMW Group sales of electric and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles in the US totaled 1,110 in February 2019, a decrease of 42.7% These models and a plug-in-hybrid variant of the BMW X3 will begin sales in the US at a future date. Overall, sales of BMW brand vehicles in the US increased 0.2%

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JATO: global vehicle sales fall by 39% in March; electrified vehicles up to 17.4% new registration market share in Europe

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Global vehicle sales totalled 5.55 million units in March 2020, down by 39% from March 2019. This represents the largest year-on-year monthly decrease since 1980, when JATO Dynamics started to collect data—even surpassing the global financial crisis in November 2008, which saw a 25% decline in sales. million units.

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USA Q1 2021 Auto Sales Up 13% vs. Q1 2020, But Down 1% vs. Q1 2019

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Tallying up US auto sales for Q1 2021 at long last, I was only slightly curious to see how they compared to Q1 2020 (and perhaps that’s why it took me so long). Clearly, with the US in lockdown for part of Q1 2020, it was just a poor quarter to compare to and this […].

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Former Cadillac advertising and marketing govt steps as much as CMO at Mercedes-Benz USA

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Melody Lee, a former advertising and marketing govt at Cadillac, is taking on as CMO at Mercedes-Benz USA. The Atlanta corporate has viewable govt churn lately, together with in gross sales, finance and customer support. Mercedes-Benz USA is on its 2d CEO since 2019.

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