Green Car Congress
MAY 4, 2009
In advance of the market introduction of the new 2010 Prius, Toyota Prius sales dropped 61.5% General Motors sold 1,534 hybrids in April, comprising: 523 units of the two-mode SUVs (Tahoe, Yukon, Escalade), representing 4.5% 338 units of the Saturn VUE hybrid, representing 11.3% of VUE sales. of Camry sales.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 5, 2009
Toyota posted 7,232 units of the Prius, down 33.6% The Tahoe, Yukon and Escalade two-mode full-size SUVs posted a combined 632 units, representing 8.4% The Saturn VUE hybrid posted 188 units, for 6.4% of all VUEs sold. New hybrid sales represented 2.3% In February 2008, hybrids held 1.9% by volume year-on-year.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 4, 2009
The Prius posted 8,121 units in January, a 28.6% GM reported a total of 923 hybrid sales in January, including: 599 2-mode full-size SUVs (Tahoe, 299; Yukon, 168; Escalade, 132), presenting 8.0% 153 VUE Green Line hybrids, representing 5.3% of all VUE sales. Year-on-year sales of passenger cars dropped 36.3% Earlier post.)
Green Car Congress
APRIL 3, 2009
Sales of the Toyota Prius were off 56.8% GM sold a total of 1,612 hybrids in March: 609 units of the Tahoe, Yukon and Escalade two-mode SUVs (7.3% 362 units of the Saturn VUE hybrid (10.4% US hybrids monthly new vehicle market share. Click to enlarge. by volume from March 2008, down to 8,924 units. and representing 9.9%
Green Cars News
MAY 4, 2009
General Motors: The company sold 1,534 units in April which consisted of: 523 two-mode SUVS (Tahoe, Yukon Escalade); 95 two-mode pick-ups (Silverado, Sierra); 547 Malibu hybrids; 338 Saturn VUE hybrids; 31 Saturn Aura hybrids. Toyota Prius sales dropped 61.5 Meanwhile, the Ford Escape and Mariner hybrids saw sales drop by 40.5
Green Car Congress
MAY 9, 2009
At the recent SAE 2009 World Congress in Detroit, General Motors engineers presented the first front-wheel-drive (FWD) iteration of their two-mode hybrid transaxle, termed the 2MT70 ( earlier post ), scheduled for its first application in the Saturn 2009 VUE 2-Mode Hybrid light sport-utility vehicle later this year ( earlier post ).
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 21, 2009
Cost increments for a plug-in hybrid compact vehicle will be 10-20% more than a regular hybrid: $2000-3000 extra for a sedan; $5000 for an SUV. Andy Frank ) has converted nine sedans and SUVs into PHEVs that have repeatedly won prizes in US Energy Department-sponsored "FutureTruck" competitions. Thats 20-25 cents a gallon.
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