Green Car Reports

JUNE 24, 2011

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.

Prius 90

Prius Auto Industry Toyota Dealers 90

EV Adoption

DECEMBER 5, 2021

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.

Sale 52

Sale Electric Vehicles PHEV Vehicles 52

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2011

The 2011 KPMG survey also finds the auto industry heavily investing in future technology, new products and safety improvements. Honda ranked seventh, ahead of Ford, and Toyota ranked ninth just ahead of General Motors. Investments. Forecast for Mergers and Acquisitions.

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Global Auto Fuel 2010 218

Clean Fleet Report

JANUARY 4, 2022

The impact on the auto industry, particularly the still growing electric sector, could be profound. Virtually every car dealer—and a growing number of used car lots—will have full EV or plug-in hybrid offerings. There may be no more “return to normal” or even a semi-normal. Mass events may become a thing of memory.

Las Vegas 75

Las Vegas Fisker F-150 Ford 75

Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2020

There was barely anybody at car dealers in the first week of February as most people stayed at home. The auto industry is poorly prepared for such supply chain shocks because many operations run on a ‘just-in-time’ basis, with very limited numbers of stockpiled parts. —Mike Vousden. —Mike Vousden.

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Sale 2012 Global 2019 286

Cars That Think

JANUARY 17, 2023

auto industry jobs could rise by 150,000 by 2030 if battery electric vehicles sales reach 50 percent by 2030 and the vehicle market share of U.S.-assembled Including suppliers, dealers, service centers, etc., million employed in the industry at large, or about 5 percent of the U.S. there are more than 7.25

Market 94

Market Auto Industry Auto Michigan 94

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Establishing dealer network. Saab GM-owned company exploring PHEVs Joint Venture with Volvo and others to research PHEVs Toyota 500 PHEV 2010-model Priuses with lithium batteries to be leased for fleet tests in 2009 (150 in U.S.) This was starting to hurt because it was one reason for a sudden surge in Toyotas market share."

Plug-in 45

Plug-in Plug Hybrid PHEV 45

Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 22, 2009

3Prong Power converts existing Toyota Priuses into plug-in hybrids that can run entirely on electricity. The same state agency that drove the electric car off a cliff is now poised to wreck a new Berkeley company that triples the gas mileage of a Toyota Prius. Paul Guzyk and Daniel Sherwood of 3Prong Power. Photograph by Chris Duffey.

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Prius Plug-in Plug Gasoline-Electric 100

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Toyotas Nickel-Metal Hydride batteries are considered "non-hazardous waste" [See "high voltage electrical systems" ]. Toyota has had a battery recycling program since 1998 and even offers dealers a $200 bounty to ensure batteries arent just thrown away (described at end of linked document).

PHEV 37

PHEV Nickel Metal Hydride Prius EPRI 37

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

“The Toyota Prius took over five years to reach break-even and has gone on to be a wild success.&# The demand-is-everything argument is the cop-out line from the auto industry and our lovely government. and Chrysler. .&# and Chrysler. Whatever B.C.G.’s Give them the choice, and they’ll shift. — Scott 18.

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Volt Green Electric Cars 2009 42

EV Adoption

MARCH 31, 2021

4 that will be arriving at dealers soon. According to the Asian auto industry gurus at ZoZo Go , it’s the strongest product debut in the history of four-wheeled vehicles. auto industry is headed,” Buttigieg said. That said, at the moment the German automaker only has a single EV for the US market, the ID.4

Kia 52

Kia Jeep Lexus Re-Charge 52

Cars That Think

JANUARY 23, 2023

Many in the auto industry are warning that realistic BEV range numbers under varying conditions need to be widely published , else risk creating a backlash against EVs in general. Range risk concerns obviously are tightly coupled to EV charging availability. Its e-Mustang has been subject to several recalls over the past year.

Buy 87

Buy GM Range Purchase 87

EV Match

AUGUST 29, 2022

so-called “clean hydrogen,” including incentives for both its manufacture through less emissive processes (it has heretofore primarily been created using natural gas , which often comes from “fracking”) and for the purchase of vehicles – not only passenger cars such as the Toyota Mirai but commercial trucks and vans. and a third).

Electric Vehicles 52

Electric Vehicles Tax Credit Industrial Industry 52