Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2012

In a new research brief , Pike Research forecasts that wireless charging equipment for light duty plug-in vehicle sales will grow by a CAGR of 91% from 2013 to 2020, as wireless systems move from a retrofit technology to an integrated part of new EVs, reaching annual sales of 283,000 units in 2020.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 26, 2011

The Chevrolet Volt and Nissan Leaf earned the highest safety ratings from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety in the first US crash test evaluations of plug-in electric cars. The addition of the 2 electric cars brings to 80 the number of award winners so far for 2011, including 7 hybrid models.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 3, 2012

The Chevrolet Volt led US plug-in vehicle sales among the largest automakers again in July, posting 1,849 units, up from 125 units in July 2011. Toyota came in second place for plug-in sales in July, with 688 Prius plug-ins sold (representing 4.1% Nissan sold 395 units of the LEAF in July 2012, down 57.6%

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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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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2012

The Chevrolet Volt was the top-selling plug-in vehicle from the top six automakers in May, posting 1,680 units, compared to 481 in May 2011. The Prius PHV plug-in hybrid followed, with 1,086 units sold, representing 5.1% The Prius PHV plug-in hybrid followed, with 1,086 units sold, representing 5.1%

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 5, 2014

The Chevrolet Volt range-extended electric car remains Canada''s plug-in sales champion, but the Nissan Leaf battery-electric--the best-selling electric car in history--is coming up fast in its rear-view mirror As consistently as the Toyota Camry tops the U.S.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Even with solid increases, other electric-car sales paled in comparison with numbers from Tesla in September and for the third quarter of 2018. The next highest sellers, were the Chevrolet Bolt EV, with 3,949 sales from July to September, and the Nissan Leaf just behind with 3,767 for the quarter.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

vehicle sales last month are expected to fall overall as data rolls in, August has traditionally been a very good month for sales of plug-in electric cars. The Chevrolet Volt, for one, kept up its pace this year, with August sales of 2,081, for an eight-month total of 14,295 Volts delivered so far this year.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

sales of plug-in electric cars than any previous year, expectations for 2018 sales are running even higher. The Chevrolet Bolt EV will be available in all 50 states for a full year, the new 2018 Nissan Leaf with a 151-mile range is now on sale, and of course the Tesla Model 3 will be a factor. While 2017 saw higher U.S.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 3, 2013

car buyers took home about 17,500 plug-in electric cars in 2011. In 2012, about 53,000 electric cars were likely sold--essentially triple the prior year's number. We know that at least 50,000 sales of plug-in cars will have been reported by Chevrolet, Ford, Honda, Nissan, and. A lot better. Not bad, huh?

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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. Back then, the Nissan Leaf.

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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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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Meanwhile, electric-car shoppers waited eagerly for details of the 2018 Nissan Leaf, the second-generation car that finally premiered in early September. The 2017 Chevy Bolt EV went on sale last December, but only became available nationwide in August.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2011

Enterprise Rent-A-Car will be the first to offer Chevrolet Volt extended-range electric vehicles (EVs) for daily and weekly rentals later this month. 500 Nissan LEAFs will be available at select Enterprise locations nationwide, and on-site charging stations will be installed to support the vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Global electric vehicle production forecast for 2014. Driven by tighter emission standards in Europe, worldwide production of plug-in electric vehicles(PEVs)—including both battery-electric (BEV) and plug-in hybrid (PHEV) models—will increase by 67% this year, according to IHS Automotive, driven by Polk.

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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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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Which is likely why a staple of plug-in car forums is the bad-treatment-at-a-car-dealership story. Anecdotes abound about Chevrolet and Nissan dealers who tried to pull Volt and Leaf buyers away from plug-in electrics into gasoline cars. Or said, "Your battery will.'

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

The 2013 Chevrolet Volt is the third model year of Chevy's unique range-extended electric car, and after a challenging start and a lot of bad media, it has emerged as the best-selling plug-in car in the U.S.--selling selling at a faster rate than the Nissan Leaf battery electric hatchback and the new Toyota Prius Plug-In Hybrid.

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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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Clean Fleet Report

OCTOBER 21, 2021

2021 Is Here: Here Are the Top 10 Electric Car Companies. Picking the Top 10 electric car makers now involves making some choices as the number of vehicles available increases. Picking the Top 10 electric car makers now involves making some choices as the number of vehicles available increases. Chevrolet Bolt 22,799.

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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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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2015

New work by a team at Simon Fraser University (SFU) in Canada has found that more than one-third of Canadian buyers want a plug-in vehicle (PEV), with the majority of those (89—93%) wanting a plug-in hybrid rather than a pure electric vehicle. Impact of constraints on PEV sales in British Columbia, 2020. Click to enlarge.

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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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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Modern plug-in electric cars first became available in the U.S. in December 2010, when the Nissan Leaf and the first-generation Chevrolet Volt went on sale. Shortly after that, in his 2011 State of the Union address, President Barack Obama set the goal of putting 1 million such cars on U.S. roads by 2015.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 24, 2013

With more than a dozen plug-in cars on the market in California, this was the year we decided it was time to trade up--and swap one electric car for another. Since March 2011, our household fleet has consisted of a 2011 Nissan Leaf and a 2011 Chevrolet Volt.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Try asking any electric-car owner or advocate, or for that matter any member of the public, which automaker sold the most electric cars last year. In North America, the answer will likely be Tesla, or possibly Nissan or Chevrolet. The correct answer for global sales of plug-in electric cars, however, was the.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 19, 2018

It's one of the major questions for any electric-car buyer: How long will the battery pack last? Now a new video looks at that question, comparing the different thermal-management technologies in the batteries of the new 2018 Nissan Leaf and the Chevrolet Bolt EV.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Sales of plug-in electric cars in the U.S. The Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid continued a strong if not spectacular year, with 2,191 sales in October for a 10-month total of 18,517. The Nissan Leaf battery-electric car, on the other.

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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. The third high-volume plug-in car on sale in the U.S.

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Teslarati

AUGUST 17, 2022

Department of Energy’s Alternative Fuels Data (DOE) published a list of electric vehicles that are immediately available for the new $7,500 EV tax credit. The Inflation Reduction Act was signed into law yesterday and for electric vehicles, it changed a few things. BMW 3-series Plug-In. Lincoln Corsair Plug-in.

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Plug in America

JUNE 24, 2021

The Audi Q4 will offer two electric motors with all-wheel drive. EPA estimates are not available at this time, but it’s anticipated to have an electric range of 250 miles. The Bolt EUV is Chevrolet’s first vehicle to offer Super Cruise driver assistance. It starts at $37,500 with an electric range of 247 miles.

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Electric Auto Association

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Know which EVs are eligible Chrysler Pacifica Plug-in Hybrid The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 changed the rules for the US tax credit for electric vehicles (EV) purchased from 2023 to 2032.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 16, 2012

The 2012 Toyota Prius Plug-In Hybrid is the second best-selling plug-in electric car in the U.S. It outsells the Nissan Leaf and is bested only by the Chevrolet Volt. But if you view it as an electric car, it’s an odd duck indeed. The car’s plug-in hybrid powertrain adds a 4.4-kilowatt-hour

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2013

Consumers who purchase an electric vehicle will find that lifetime costs to own the vehicle are competitive with conventional and hybrid vehicles, according to an analysis conducted by the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). —“Total Cost of Ownership for Current Plug-in Electric Vehicles”.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 2, 2015

For more than four years, the Nissan Leaf and Chevy Volt have been the highest-volume plug-in electric cars sold in the U.S. Last month, for the first time in roughly three years, the Nissan Leaf''s total U.S. sales surpassed those of the Chevrolet Volt.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 25, 2014

While more than a dozen plug-in electric cars are now sold in the United States, only three carmakers--Chevrolet, Nissan, and Tesla--have emerged as volume players, with BMW perhaps intending to become the fourth.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2016

A US-wide county-level study comparing lifecycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from several light-duty passenger gasoline and plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) has found that PEVs can have larger or smaller carbon footprints than gasoline vehicles depending on regional factors and the specific vehicle models being compared.

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