Green Car Congress

AUGUST 28, 2013

Strategic Vision’s New Vehicle Experience Study (NVES), using a rapidly growing sample of Tesla buyers, finds what it calls “significant” differences between Tesla owners and the rest of the electric vehicle market. Tesla owners’ emphasis on “Performance-Electric” sets them apart from other EV buyers.

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Prius Tesla Volt EPA 354

Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 4, 2013

The Chevrolet Volt and Tesla Model S were probably neck-and-neck in Canadian plug-in sales, in September In August, the Chevy Volt won the sales podium by an 84-56 margin over the Nissan Leaf. Government records showed 55 new Tesla Model S registrations, leaving the California automaker in a close third place.

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Volt Plug-in Plug Sale 88

Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Sales of plug-in electric cars fell slightly in November, with continued steady sales of the Nissan Leaf not enough to make up for a decline in Chevy Volt numbers. This month's total may not quite equal last month's plug-in sales of 6,784. The big unknown, however, is deliveries of the Tesla Model S--which Tesla won't discuss.

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Volt Plug-in Plug Sale 109

Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 5, 2013

GM sold an excellent 133 Chevrolet Volts in November, more than doubling October''s 62 sales, and bringing monthly sales into triple figures for the second time this year, behind June''s 153 deliveries.

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Volt Canada Plug-in Plug 87

Green Car Reports

MAY 16, 2013

I''ve been leasing a 2011 Chevrolet Volt for almost two years now. And about three months ago, I took delivery of a 2013 Tesla Model S, the 60-kWh version. and the two best-selling plug-ins so far in 2013. So I''ve gotten an extended first-hand look at arguably the two most technically advanced production cars in the U.S.--and

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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. The "probably" comes because Tesla refuses to release its deliveries broken down either by month or by country, meaning there's no data to compare.

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Plug-in Plug Sale Electric Cars 91

Green Car Reports

AUGUST 5, 2015

The Chevrolet Volt sold 150 units in Canada in July, by far its best showing this year. With Tesla sales historically slower in the first month of a quarter, the Volt may have ended the Model S's seven-month dominance of plug-in electric vehicle sales in.

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Canada Volt Plug-in Sale 60

Green Car Reports

MARCH 29, 2019

Consumers have less than three days to buy a plug-in Chevy Volt or Bolt EV from GM and still qualify for the full $7,500 federal tax. Nor does GM have any plans to cut prices after the tax cut expires on Monday, as Tesla did with its cars after the tax credit.

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Tax Credit Tax Chevrolet Volt 97

Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

In July, we tentatively crowned the Tesla Model S as the top-selling plug-in electric carmaker in Canada, reasoning that the Muskmobile would top the 42 nationwide sales reported by the Volt and the Leaf. Government registration records showed 43 new Teslas in Canada in July, meaning the Model S beat.'

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Canada Volt Plug-in Plug 86

Green Car Reports

APRIL 2, 2013

The big news in plug-in car sales for March was Tesla's statement that it delivered "more than 4,750" Model S electric cars from January through March. That news early yesterday not only sent stock in Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA] soaring, it also cued up an interesting three-way horse race.

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Plug-in Plug Sale Electric Cars 153

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2014

A study by researchers at the Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Davis finds that buyers of plug-in vehicles (PEVs) are substantially less satisfied with the dealer purchase experience than buyers of conventional vehicles—with the notable exception of Tesla buyers. In some cases, dealers outright discouraged PEV purchases.

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Davis Plug-in Plug Sale 290

Green Car Reports

JANUARY 2, 2019

The wind-down of federal tax credits on plug-in vehicles begins to hit in 2019. Tax credits for Tesla buyers were already reduced to $3,750 on Tuesday. The same reduction is scheduled to hit GM's plug-in models, the Chevy Volt and Bolt EV on April 1.

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Tax Credit Tax Plug-in GM 70

Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Data on the liquid-cooled battery packs of older Tesla Model S and Chevrolet Volt cars offers. As more battery-electric cars are sold and more drivers become aware of them, the question of battery life recurs among pretty much every potential buyer. How long will the battery last?

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Volt 2012 Miles Range 145

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. The Chevrolet Bolt EV, GM's 238-mile battery electric hatchback, set a new monthly sales record of 1,937 deliveries in its eighth month on sale—the highest number for any electric car in July.

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Plug-in Plug Sale Electric Cars 94

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 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. The jump in the PEV market this year contrasts with an expected 3.6%

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 29, 2018

Chevrolet reveals updates to the 2019 Volt plug-in hybrid. Tesla opens orders for the Model 3 for all U.S. And the full Tesla Model 3 order guide has surfaced. and Canada buyers. Faraday Future receives another financial lifeline. MG plans for an electric roadster to rival the Mazda MX-5 Miata. The 2019.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 3, 2013

Plug-in car sales continued at a steady pace in May, with early estimates of perhaps 6,500 to 7,000 sold overall. As always, precise figures are impossible because Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA] does not report monthly sales as every other carmaker does.

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Plug-in Plug Sale Volt 151

Green Car Reports

APRIL 6, 2017

The Chevy Volt likely continued its winning ways atop the Canadian plug-in electric vehicle sales charts in March. Its 377 sales give it a comfortable margin over the Tesla Model S's high mark of 325, set in March 2016 before the Model X became available.

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Plug-in Plug Sale Canada 87

Green Car Reports

JULY 16, 2014

Today on Green Car Reports: Tesla''s next electric sedan will be called Model III, the next Chevrolet Volt will have the same electric range as the current car, and the Toyota Prius Plug-In Hybrid laps the Nurburgring. The new name for Tesla''s "third-generation" electric car is Model III (pronounced "Model.'

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Prius Volt Toyota 2015 126

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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Canada Plug-in Plug Supplies 150

Green Car Reports

MARCH 27, 2015

It''s long been known that getting some car dealerships to sell plug-in electric cars can be a challenge. Now, one reporter tested the thesis for himself, by visiting both his local Tesla store--to inquire about the Model S electric luxury sedan--and his local Chevrolet dealer, to ask about the Volt range-extended electric car.

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Dealers Volt Store Tesla 60

Cars That Think

APRIL 4, 2022

The Hyundai Ioniq5 and Kia EV6 that I recently tested—a pair of wildly impressive, high-design EVs—take a different approach to solving range anxiety: an 800-volt battery architecture that delivers some of the fastest charging in the EV game, and unheard of at these price levels. The Hyundai Ioniq5.

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Volt Range Charging Hummer 107

Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 19, 2011

If you need a plug-in car that is capable of traveling long distances between charges but can’t afford the 300-miles per charge option offered by the 2012 Tesla Model S, the chances are you’re looking at buying a plug-in hybrid.

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2012 Prius Chevrolet Volt 106

Green Car Congress

APRIL 4, 2013

With the US sales numbers for the first quarter of 2013 in, Tesla appears to be the leading seller of plug-in vehicles for that period, with more than 4,750 units of the model S sold in North America. Tesla doesn’t break out sales by country at this time, so there are no US-specific figures from the company.). Earlier post.)

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North America Nissan Sale America 252

Green Car Reports

AUGUST 21, 2018

Last week, we asked our Twitter followers which plug-in car they might choose to send their kids back to school. Options ranged from the relatively affordable Nissan Leaf that offers great lease deals, to a plug-in hybrid Chevy Volt, to a not-so-cheap used Tesla Model S. What plug-in.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 3, 2018

The monthly report on sales of plug-in electric cars may well have come to a close this month. General Motors, makers of the Chevrolet Bolt EV and Volt, said it will only release sales figures quarterly starting after its Tuesday release of deliveries for the month of March.

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Plug-in Plug Sale Electric Cars 78

Green Car Reports

AUGUST 18, 2011

When the Cadillac ELR extended-range plug-in car goes on sale, probably in 2013 as a 2014 model, it's a given that it will cost more than the 2012 Chevy Volt. But how much more?

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Cadillac Volt Plug-in Plug 103

Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2010

The Chevrolet Volt extended range electric vehicle will provide customers with a standard, eight-year/100,000-mile (161,000 km) warranty on its lithium-ion battery pack. As a quick comparison, Tesla’s battery-electric Roadster has a bumper-to-bumper 3-year, 36,000-mile (58,000 km) warranty. The Volt battery can be warmed or cooled.

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Volt Chevrolet Miles Standards 236

Green Car Reports

AUGUST 6, 2013

While it could also have marked the Chevy Volt''s 17th consecutive month as the best-selling Canadian plug-in electric vehicle, when the vehicle registration data comes out, we may see the Tesla Model S atop the leader board. Tesla Model S.'

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Plug-in Plug Canada 2013 94

Green Car Reports

AUGUST 27, 2018

The 2019 Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid sees a price increase. And Tesla reportedly had Volkswagen lined up to take the company private. Mercedes-Benz gives us a better look at its upcoming EQC electric crossover SUV. Russian armsmaker Kalashnikov shows off its electric car. All of this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Volt 2019 Mercedes Price 68

Green Car Reports

JULY 20, 2013

Readers of our monthly analysis of the Canadian plug-in electric car market know two things well: a) the Chevy Volt dominates, with sixteen consecutive months of sales leadership; and b) Canadian plug-in figures are hard to come by. Our posts on June plug-in sales in the United States and Canada illustrate this latter point.

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Canada Plug-in Plug Electric Cars 115

Charged EVs

AUGUST 29, 2023

NACS is not today’s Tesla connector One aspect of the news that seems to have flown below the radar is that the so-called NACS is effectively the next generation of Tesla connector and protocols. The connector itself is slightly modified, but backward-compatible with older Teslas.

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Parts Charging Tesla America 86

Green Car Reports

APRIL 6, 2015

As expected, the Tesla Model S was a “three-peat” plug-in electric vehicle sales champion in Canada back in February, with its 48 sales comfortably exceeding those of the Chevrolet Volt and Nissan Leaf at 38 apiece. Green Canada New car sales plug-in cars sales'

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Canada Plug-in Plug Sale 60

Teslarati

JUNE 22, 2023

Rivian recently announced that it would be adopting the Tesla North American Charging Standard (NACS) for its electric vehicles. This means that R1 vehicles starting next year would ship with an NACS adapter, and future vehicles, including the R2 line, would ship with the Tesla standard by default. A thousand volts.

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IDEA Standards General Motors Tesla 134

Green Car Reports

MARCH 1, 2017

Once again, it's the first day of the month following a weekday sales close, when the auto industry turns its eyes to the sales charts emerging from all automakers (except Tesla). For plug-in electric cars, the question this month remains the same as last month: how many Chevrolet Bolt EVs did GM deliver?

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Plug-in Plug Sale Electric Cars 60

Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

sales of, say, full-size pickup trucks, the monthly reports on deliveries of plug-in hybrid and battery-electric cars contain some fairly low numbers. The Ford F-Series routinely sells 80,000 a month or more, while the most any plug-in car has ever sold in the U.S. That statistic excludes Tesla, since. Compared to the U.S.

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Prius Volt Toyota Plug-in 100

Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 28, 2022

From the Nissan Leaf to the Lucid Air, with the Toyota Prius, Chevy Volt, and Tesla Model 3 among the many formative models in between, our Green Car Reports Best Car To Buy winners each year have offered not just what we think you should buy, but a glimpse of the future.

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