Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Sales of the two highest-volume plug-in electric cars soared in August, with both the Chevrolet Volt and the Nissan Leaf setting all-time monthly sales records.

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Volt Los Angeles Plug-in Plug 164

Green Car Reports

JANUARY 15, 2021

If you're considering a used electric car, now might be a good time to spring into action. General Motors is offering 0% APR financing for 72 months on used Chevrolet Bolt EV electric cars and Chevy Volt plug-in hybrids, reports CarsDirect, which cited a bulletin sent to dealerships last week.

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Financing Volt General Motors Chevrolet 180

Green Car Reports

APRIL 3, 2017

The Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid again took the crown among plug-in electric cars whose makers report monthly sales. A total of 2,132 Volts were sold in March, bringing its three-month sales to 5,563 units, higher than any other car with a plug over the same period.

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Plug-in Plug Sale Electric Cars 109

Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 7, 2017

A record 582 Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrids were sold in Canada last month, two months after Chevy delivered a then-record 483 Volts in September. The achievement is even more impressive considering Canadian car sales dropped by 15 percent between the two months, as the industry enters its slow season.

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Volt Canada Plug-in Plug 83

Green Car Reports

JULY 5, 2017

In May, the Toyota Prius Prime plug-in hybrid was the highest-selling car with a plug in the U.S. Last month, however, the Chevrolet Volt recaptured its usual spot at the top of the plug-in sales charts for those manufacturers who report monthly sales. for only the second time ever.

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Volt Prius Plug-in Plug 100

Green Car Reports

AUGUST 5, 2018

Chevrolet's Volt wasn't the original, or even the first Volt from GM. Electric Auto Corporation receives that distinction for their car built in 1980, at the height of America's second gas crisis. It built the Silver Volt, a plug-in hybrid based on a contemporary Buick station wagon—16 years before the GM EV1.

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Volt Plug-in GM EV1 132

Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

In October sales of plug-in electric cars, both Chevy and Nissan improved on their September results, but didn''t come close to beating their record August sales numbers. The Chevrolet Volt range-extended electric car racked up 2,022 deliveries, which is up 14 percent on September''s number of 1,766.

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Volt Plug-in Plug Electric Cars 135

Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 3, 2017

The Chevrolet Bolt EV continued a steady sales rise last month as it solidified its position among the top three plug-in electric cars for which monthly U.S. In August, Chevy delivered 2,107 Bolt EVs, the first time the car had sold more than 2,000 units in a month after entering the market in mid-December last year.

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Plug-in Plug Sale Electric Cars 115

Green Car Reports

MARCH 1, 2013

sales of plug-in electric cars continued at a reduced level, as seems to happen every winter. The best-selling electric car, the Chevrolet Volt range-extended electric car, logged deliveries to 1,626 units, compared to 1,140 last month.

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Volt Plug-in Electric Cars Plug 126

Green Car Reports

JULY 7, 2016

Paced by the Chevrolet Volt, Canada may have had its first-ever month in which 1,000 plug-in electric vehicle were sold. Volt sales continued to soar in Canada during June, with GM's electric flagship topping 300 for the first time.

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Volt Canada Plug-in Plug 90

Green Car Reports

APRIL 4, 2014

While the Nissan Leaf is gaining momentum, the Chevrolet Volt remains in the driver''s seat for March in plug-in electric-car sales for Canada. The Chevy Volt returned to triple-figure sales in Canada for the tenth time in March, tallying 105 sales from coast to coast.

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Canada Volt Plug-in Plug 125

Clean Fleet Report

JANUARY 24, 2023

When the first gasoline-electric hybrids vehicles began arriving in 1999 and 2000, early adopters did their research and were quite knowledgeable about the then-new and revolutionary transportation mode. But the mass market was confused; these new cars had an additional battery to provide electricity to an electric motor.

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Nickel Metal Hydride Plug-in Plug Recharge 84

Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 1, 2014

sales of plug-in electric cars now averaging more than 10,000 vehicles each month, September seems likely to continue that trend once all the sales reports are in. Sales of the Nissan Leaf totaled 2,881 last month, bringing year-to-date deliveries to 21,882.

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Plug-in Plug Sale Electric Cars 162

Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

With the end of Chevrolet Volt production last week, it looks more like pure electric cars are winning the race to transform driving over more complicated, if versatile plug-in hybrids.

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Detroit Volt GM Chevrolet 167

Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

In the first month of 2014, sales of the two most popular plug-in electric cars were lower than they''ve been in many months. Sales levels likely fell victim both to the predictable winter slowdown in electric-car sales (which we saw in 2012 and 2013 too) and to particularly bad weather last month throughout much of the U.S.

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Plug-in Plug Electric Cars Sale 149

Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

The development of the Chevrolet Volt range-extended electric car was so complex that it''s now become fodder for a research paper.

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Volt Plug-in Plug Electric Cars 112

Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

While car sales often lag during August, when family vacations take priority, the Chevrolet Volt proved an exception to the rule last month. During August, 2,831 of Chevy's range-extended electric car found buyers--along with 685 Nissan Leaf battery electric cars. is the Toyota Prius Plug-In.

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Volt Plug-in Plug Electric Cars 121

Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

The dominant duo of the Chevy Volt and Bolt EV continued their winning ways in the Canadian market for new plug-in electric cars during October. Chevrolet sold 424 Volts to start the fourth quarter, down slightly from 483 in September.

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Plug-in Plug Sale Canada 87

Green Car Reports

MAY 1, 2013

Sales of plug-in electric cars in April continued at roughly the same pace as in March, with sales likely totaling about 7,500 cars. Last year''s first- and third-place plug-ins, the Chevy Volt and Nissan Leaf, are now pacing each other in sales. Meanwhile, we simply don''t know whether.'

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Volt Plug-in Plug Sale 125

Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

The Chevrolet Volt won its 17th straight Canadian plug-in electric vehicle sales title in August, which became its 50th overall. Much has changed since its September 2011 arrival in the home of the beaver—which, we note, is not just Oregon State University’s mascot, but Canada’s national animal as well.

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Canada Plug-in Volt Plug 83

Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Traditionally, the North American winter months have seen a slowdown in sales of plug-in electric cars—but the rule didn't seem to apply last month. Last month, sales of the Nissan Leaf electric car actually increased over last year's comparable number, while those of the Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid soared.

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Plug-in Volt Plug Sale 60

Green Car Reports

MAY 2, 2017

WIth four-figure sales for both its all-electric Chevrolet Bolt EV and the Chevy Volt plug-in hybrid, GM probably led April's plug-in electric car sales. GM's 3,102 deliveries—1,807 Volts, 1,292.

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Plug-in Plug Sale Electric Cars 94

Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

More specifically, GM delivered 2,781 Chevrolet Bolt EVs to buyers during October, a new high for its 238-mile electric car, and the highest reported sales of any plug-in electric vehicle last month.

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Plug-in Plug Sale Electric Cars 102

Green Car Reports

MAY 1, 2014

Sales of plug-in electric cars last month appear to be staying level with last month''s, based on early figures from Nissan and Chevrolet.

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Plug-in Plug Sale Electric Cars 166

Green Car Reports

AUGUST 2, 2016

sales of plug-in electric cars: the 100,000th Chevrolet Volt was delivered. It's the first car with a plug in any segment to reach 100,000 units, and Chevy's justified in celebrating the occasion with a press release and a bit of fanfare. Both the Volt and the Nissan Leaf battery-electric hatchback went.

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Plug-in Volt Plug Sale 60

Green Car Reports

JANUARY 4, 2017

Among cars with plugs, however, the trend was clearly up—and December saw the first sales of the long-awaited 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV, the 238-mile.

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Plug-in Plug Sale Volt 121

Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

The best-selling electric car in the world, the Nissan Leaf, logged its best-ever U.S. ALSO SEE: FINAL UPDATE: Plug-In.' sales in August, selling a record 3,186 units.

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Plug-in Plug Sale Electric Cars 167

Green Car Reports

JUNE 1, 2017

Sales of three high-volume plug-in electric cars rose last month, with the 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV 238-mile battery-electric hatchback logging its highest monthly total since sales began in December. Chevrolet delivered 1,566 Bolt EVs, bringing this year's five-month total to 5,950 (another 579 were sold in December 2016).

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Plug-in Plug Sale Electric Cars 115

Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

In August, the Chevy Volt won the Canadian plug-in sales derby yet again – a category dominance that brings to mind the Ford F-150''s 48-year-reign(!) Funnily enough, it''s actually the French fleur-de-lis which is responsible for these victories: Fully three-quarters of all Volts sold in Canada.'

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Volt Canada Plug-in F-150 116

Clean Fleet Report

OCTOBER 21, 2021

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Electric Cars Cars Plug-in Electric 105

Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Sales of plug-in electric cars tripled last year, so how's the New Year looking? General Motors said it delivered 1,140 Chevrolet Volt range-extended electric cars last month. Based on January sales, being reported throughout the day by automakers, the year is starting slowly.

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Volt Plug-in Plug Electric Cars 110

Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 6, 2014

During September, another 145 Chevrolet Volts were sold in Canada--continuing the slow but steady arrival of plug-in electric cars onto the nation''s roads.

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Canada Plug-in Plug Electric Cars 147

Green Car Reports

AUGUST 2, 2017

car market that's coming off record numbers over the last couple of years, plug-in electric car sales continued strong last month.

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Plug-in Sale Plug Electric Cars 97

Green Car Reports

AUGUST 5, 2013

Over the next few months, the Chevrolet Volt will get just that little bit more American--as its battery cells are now produced in the U.S. Korean battery maker LG Chem opened a plant in Holland, Michigan two years ago, and production of lithium-ion cells for Chevy''s range-extended plug-in Volt is now finally underway.

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Volt Plug-in Plug Lithium Ion 136

Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

The Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid followed July's record-setting 385 Canadian sales with 421 units in August—the first time any plug-in electric vehicle had topped the 400 monthly sales mark in Canada.

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Plug-in Canada Volt Plug 60

Green Car Reports

MARCH 29, 2016

Hybrids are pretty well-known at this point, and battery-electric cars are conceptually simple: You plug them in like a mobile phone. But explaining plug-in hybrids to car buyers at large—it's a hybrid, but it also plugs in, but only for double-digit range—has proven to be very hard.

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Volt Plug-in GM Plug 60

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Cuomo announced that the state has seen a 74% increase in electric car sales over the same time period last year, resulting from the Drive Clean Rebate initiative launched on 21 March 2017. The Drive Clean Rebate provides New York residents with a rebate of up to $2,000 for the purchase of a new plug-in car from participating dealers.

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New York Plug-in Plug Sale 150