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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. Even with $4/gallon gas ($6.13

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MAY 1, 2009

The Prius mid-size gas-electric hybrid posted April sales of 8,385 units, down 61.5%. Sales of the volume leading ALtima were down 46.9% to 12,012 units, including 222 Altima hybrids. Camry remained Toyota’s volume leader in April, posting combined monthly sales of 25,324 units, down 36.7%.

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AUGUST 4, 2009

Hybrids had an especially good month, with reported sales jumping 31.8% Hybrid gains were largely due to an increase in Prius sales (up 29.7% to 19,173 units) and Ford hybrids (up 323% to 5,353 units). Monthly sales of hybrids. Nissan sold 1,030 units of the Altima hybrid, up 44.1% from last year.

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Plugs and Cars

DECEMBER 22, 2006

There is more to Dan Neil's recent LA Times column than a favorable review of yet another gasoline-only hybrid. He likes the Nissan Altima Hybrid well enough. Calls it a "Camry hybrid in tight jeans." More important, Neil says, is that it comes from an automaker that had scoffed at "hybridization."

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FEBRUARY 3, 2009

Passenger car sales were led by Camry and Camry Hybrid, which posted combined sales of 20,782 units, down 34.2% Camry Hybrid accounted for 5.5% The Prius mid-size gas-electric hybrid posted January sales of 8,121 units, down 28.6% The Altima was the top-selling car with 14,135 units, down 34.7%

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JUNE 3, 2009

Camry and Camry Hybrid remained Toyota’s volume leader in May, posting combined monthly sales of 31,325 units, down 39%. The Prius mid-size gas-electric hybrid posted May sales of 10,091 units, down 32.8%. Overall, TMS posted May sales of 14,846 hybrid vehicles, down 43% year-on-year. to 55,933 units.

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